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Politics and government.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 226 Collections and/or Records:

Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0967
Scope and Contents Papers of Harley M. Kilgore, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. Includes typescripts, correspondence, printed materials, clippings, broadsides, and a photograph. Topics include congressional bills and legislation on diverse subjects; committees with which Kilgore was involved, including the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee on War Mobilization, the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (also known as the Truman Committee), the Committee on Military Affairs, and the...
Dates: 1937-1956

Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1108
Overview Papers of Harley M. Kilgore, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. This collection includes typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence, and printed material. The majority of the collection pertains to domestic affairs topics, including political campaigns, the Rosier-Martin contest for the Senate in 1941, bills introduced or sponsored by Kilgore, papers dealing with his activities as juvenile judge, and papers relating to various organizations and societies. Most of these papers relate to...
Dates: 1933-1956

Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1500
Scope and Contents Papers of Harley M. Kilgore, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. Contains material on the Senate Judiciary Committee and its various subcommittees including the anti-monopoly, internal security, and immigration groups. Other papers deal regard the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (also known as the Truman Committee), West Virginia elections, and the National Guard. There is one box of campaign materials and various speeches.Correspondents include Bernard...
Dates: 1890, 1937-1956

Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3143
Overview Papers of Harley M. Kilgore, U.S. Senator from West Virginia. Includes typescripts, clippings, printed materials, and correspondence regarding U.S. Senate voting and campaigning; the Senate Judiciary Committee; correspondence with Federal government agencies, various individuals, and West Virginia state agencies; Senate legislation on a variety of topics, including appropriation, education, health, and housing; various West Virginia subjects and individuals; Kilgore's speeches, press...
Dates: ca. 1927-1956, undated

Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3335
Scope and Contents Papers of WV Senator Harley M. Kilgore. This collection includes correspondence, news clippings, facsimiles and translations of German-language Nazi banking correspondence, legislative files, and speeches.Series include: Series 1. Correspondence, 1943–1950 (box 1) Series 2. Press Releases, 1945–1946 (box 1) Series 3. News Clippings, 1944–1946 (box 1) Series 4. German Documents, 1933–1943 (box 2) Series 5. Legislation, 1939–1946 (box 3) Series 6. Case...
Dates: 1930-1950

Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Papers and Artifacts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1068
Overview

This collection contains two eagle flag staff toppers from Senator Kilgore's Washington, D.C. office, government documents, and other printed material, including National Petroleum Council reports. See Historical Note for more information on Senator Kilgore.

Dates: ca. 1940-1956

Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956), Senator, Radio Broadcast Script

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0491
Overview

Contains a typescript script of a radio broadcast by Senator Kilgore and David C. Mearns concerning the Lincoln papers in the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1952

Harrison County Court Records

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Collection Number: A&M 1827
Overview

Records of the Harrison County court, including the first land entry book for the county (1784-1799), four court minute books (1797-1805).

Dates: 1784-1903

Harry C. Woodyard (1867-1929) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2458
Scope and Contents Correspondence, legal, and financial, and miscellaneous papers of a businessman and politician from Roane County, West Virginia, who was elected to the state Senate in 1898 and to the U.S. Congress as a Republican for several terms: 1902-11, 1916-23, 1925-27. His early business activity was in wholesale groceries and the lumber industry. He later engaged in newspaper publishing and owned an estimated eighteen weekly papers. Woodyard's sons continued in their father's business after his...
Dates: ca. 1910-1929

Harvey W. Harmer (1865-1961) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1686
Scope and Contents Correspondence, speeches, essays, clippings, and account books of a Clarksburg lawyer, Republican state senator, and Harrison County local historian. Subjects include the history of Clarksburg and Shinnston; the Progressive Movement, women's suffrage, and prohibition in West Virginia; West Virginia Wesleyan College; West Virginia Historical Society; Methodism in Harrison County and the state; Methodist missions in Korea, China, India, the Philippines, and the United States; gristmills and...
Dates: 1842-1961