Politics and government.
Found in 224 Collections and/or Records:
President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), Typescript Copies of Letters to Senator Stephen B. Elkins
Typescript copies of forty letters from U.S. President Benjamin Harrison to Senator Stephen B. Elkins from 1886 to 1900. Topics are primarily personal in nature and include trips, family news, weather, and social activities. Harrison also comments briefly on Elkins' election to the Senate in 1894, political appointments, and Indiana politics in the late 1890s.
Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Political Papers, and Other Material
Petition, resolutions, memos, clippings, and advertisements concerning change in state constitution, Democratic Party in Preston County, Polk-Clay election, Congressional election ca. 1862, and American Arm & Leg Company.
Preston Family Papers
Correspondence, legal papers, and business papers of John J.D. Preston, his ancestors, and his relatives. The correspondence is primarily between members of the Preston family with topics being discussed, such as living conditions, business conditions, military training camps, Civil War battles, politics and campaigns, political personalities, education, schools, and the World Wars. Correspondents include John Preston, Rev. David Preston, John J. Davis, and John W. Davis.
Robert G. Kelly Papers
Robert L. Pemberton (1860-1944) Papers
Robert L. Ramsay (1877-1956) Papers
Bound volumes of speeches, bills, and correspondence, 1941-1952, of Robert L. Ramsay while a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the first congressional district of West Virginia.
Robinson Family Manuscripts
Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.
Roy L. McCulty Papers
Papers of a Roane County businessman who served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1943 to 1956 and in the state senate from 1957 to 1961. The collection includes letters, photographs, a scrapbook, clippings pertaining to McCulty's career, and two notebooks containing digests of bills introduced during the 1960 session of the state legislature.
Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers
Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers, Court Record Featuring Stonewall Jackson
Lewis County debt record featuring Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson as Constable to collect money from Jonathan E. Bennett owed to J. Holt. Does not include original signature of Stonewall Jackson.