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Politics and government.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 226 Collections and/or Records:

John W. Davis (1873-1955) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2080
Overview

Correspondence of the 1924 Democratic presidential nominee; draft of a speech on legislative power; tickets to the Democratic National Convention in New York; and a poem concerning Davis' candidacy for president in 1924. Correspondence is between Davis and his nephew, John J.D. Preston, of Charleston. Subjects mentioned include politics, World War II, Davis' law practice, and family matters.

Dates: 1924-1943, 1953
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

John W. Davis, Lawyer, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2963
Scope and Contents Scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence and papers of the noted lawyer and 1924 presidential aspirant for the Democrats, John W. Davis, kept by his daughter, a famous author, Julia (McDonald) Davis Adams. Noteworthy is a 1948 official publication in tribute to Davis' career as Solicitor General of the United States (1913-1918). There is a typescript copy of his diary recounting his wartime and post-war tenure (1918-1921) as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. His letters include some of his...
Dates: 1842, 1861-1897, 1918-1927, 1946-1953, 1978
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0007
Overview Correspondence, maps, business records and other papers of a U.S. Senator, Democratic politician, and promoter of the oil industry, railroads, and coal and timber resources of West Virginia. The papers regard Camden's purchase of land in the 1850s; his activities in oil production and refining, 1860-1875; his presidency of the Camden Consolidated Oil Company and the Baltimore United Oil Company; the affairs of the Stewart Brick Company of Parkersburg; the Virginia debt controversy; and his...
Dates: 1845-1908
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1228
Scope and Contents

Two business letters of Senator Camden concerning the Stewart Brick Company, Parkersburg, and a Democratic Electoral ticket for Virginia in 1852.

Dates: 1852; 1894
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Johnson Newlon Camden (1828-1908) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0339
Scope and Contents

An unsigned letter to Johnson Newlon Camden commending him for his work on the West Virginia Debt question. Collection also includes a pamphlet on the October 1891 term of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Dates: April 20, 1881; 1891
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Jonathan M. Bennett (1816-1887) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0032
Overview Correspondence and papers of a major political figure dealing largely with politics in Virginia, West Virginia, and Virginia in the Confederacy. Bennett, a lawyer and legislator, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1852-1853; president of the Weston Branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia; auditor of Virginia, 1857-1865; member of the senate of West Virginia, 1872-1876; and a member of the commission appointed to adjust the Virginia debt question in 1871. Correspondents include...
Dates: 1785-1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph B. Lightburn Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1224
Overview

Correspondence and writings of the mayor of Jane Lew and one-time Republican nominee for Congress, pertaining to fluoridation, United Nations, foreign aid, income tax, socialism, the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and Lightburn's conservative interpretation of Americanism.

Dates: 1958-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Joseph B. Lightburn Papers regarding Conservative Politics

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Collection Number: A&M 3826
Overview Materials regarding the Constitution Party and other conservative political organizations created and collected by Joseph B. Lightburn. Folder 1 contains handbills, correspondence, etc. of the Constitution Party of the U.S.A. and the Constitution Party of West Virginia (1961-1963). Folder 2 contains pamphlets, newsletters, correspondence, and clippings pertaining to conservative political topics (1957-1970); topics include: income tax repeal, constitutionalism, anti-communism and...
Dates: 1957-1970
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates: 1887-1962
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

J.V. Blair Printed Materials

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0329
Scope and Contents

A collection of printed materials relating to politics. Includes issues of The Commoner, 1902, The Working Democracy, 1900, Mountain Workman, Buckhannon, W. Va., 1897, election broadsides, and facsimile of the first issue of the Maryland Journal and the Baltimore Advertiser, August 20, 1773.

Dates: 1876-1898
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center