Politics and government.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 224 Collections and/or Records:
Socialist Workers Party Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2709
Overview
Materials from several political campaigns are among the papers, including those of Rosalinda Flint's 1978 campaign for the U.S. Senate; Brian Williams' 1978 campaign for West Virginia House of Delegates, 27th District; Tom Moriarty's 1980 campaign for West Virginia Governor; and the 1980 campaign to elect Andrew Pulley and Mathilde Zimmermann as President and Vice-President, respectively, of the United States. The campaign papers address such issues as occupational health and safety,...
Dates:
1978-1980
Stephen Benton Elkins, Letter Copy Book
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3979
Overview
Letter copy book kept by Stephen Benton Elkins, a politician and businessman who would later become a prominent citizen of West Virginia. The book was kept from 23 October 1875 to 1 May 1878. It contains roughly 150 letters as well as a partial index of recipients. During the time this book was kept, Elkins resided in Santa Fe, New Mexico, practiced law, represented the territory in Congress, and acted as president of the Maxwell Land Grant Company. Letters concern political and business...
Dates:
1875-1878
Taylor County Justice Docket
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1575
Overview
Civil docket of justices of the peace W.E. Rightmire and A.B. Knabenshue. There is a description of each case which includes names, dates, sum in dispute, and decision of court. There are files on the strike relief fund; organizing activities; New Deal and wartime agencies; labor mediation and arbitration; and Congressional labor legislation such as the Taft-Hartley Act. There are also records of the state conventions and of the Political Action Committee (PAC). The files of the West...
Dates:
1935-1937
Thomas W. Harrison Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0827
Overview
Business and personal papers of a Clarksburg resident and a letter from R. Claiborne to George Jackson, 1 July 1799, concerning a broad spectrum of national issues.
Dates:
1799, 1834-1907
U.S. Works Progress Administration, West Virginia Historic Records Survey, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0046
Overview
Copies of records from each county in West Virginia gathered by the depression-era public records survey funded by the Works Progress Administration. Included are registers of births, marriages, deaths, wills, estate settlements, and land records. Transcriptions of county and circuit court minute and order books are included as well as cemetery readings and registers; church record surveys; mimeographed calendars of the papers of West Virginia governors; and American Imprint Inventory slips...
Dates:
ca. 1930-1939
Varner Family Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0891
Overview
Letters written by various members of the Varner family in Gilmer County and Baltimore, Maryland, and a number of letters of S.W. Varner, a physician in Kingwood, relating to his medical practice. Included is a letter from M.O. Dawson who is running for governor soliciting names of Republican voters. Subjects covered include death, illness, and news in the family, and West Virginia state politics.
Dates:
1864-1940
Vause W. Marshall Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1198
Scope and Contents
Papers of a Williamsport rare book and manuscripts dealer include correspondence relating to the book trade, dealer book lists and catalogues, and correspondence on West Virginia and national politics, 1880-1946; the Garner for President Committee; the Rush D. Holt campaign of 1940; the National Jeffersonian Democrats; and the state Democratic Executive Committee. There is one folder of John T. McGraw papers. Correspondents include Charles H. Ambler, Roy Bird Cook, W.E.B. Du Bois, P.S....
Dates:
1880-1948
Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1361
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), one of the founders of West Virginia. This collection includes letters to Harrison Hagans outlining the varied nature of opposition to the New State in Congress and Willey's position on slavery; letter from the Quartermaster General requesting support of a reorganization bill; cards and social invitations; and obituary clippings.
Dates:
1862-1900
Waitman T. Willey Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0003
Overview
Papers of Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), lawyer, senator, and founding father of West Virginia. A resident of Monongalia County, Willey was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1850, the Secession Convention of 1861, the First Wheeling Convention of 1861, and the Constitutional Convention of 1871. He was U.S. Senator from the Restored Government of Virginia (1861-1863) and Senator from West Virginia (1863-1871). Includes several thousand pieces of incoming correspondence to Waitman...
Dates:
1820-1917
Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2141
Overview
Operator in the Logan coalfield for many years, collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia, and president of the state Board of Control, 1937-1941. Thurmond returned to the coal industry in 1941 and helped organize the Southern Coal Producers' Association, serving as its secretary until his retirement in 1958. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers, including Thurmond's diaries for 1938-1967. Subjects include labor relations, taxes, mine...
Dates:
1938-1967