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James, Ollie Murray, 1871-1918. Photograph collection, ca. 1886-1918.

Title: Photograph collection, ca. 1886-1918.

Collection includes photographs of James as a young man and as a congressman and senator; as permanent chair of the Democratic National Committee in 1912 when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for president; photos of the arrival of notification committee in Sea Girt, N.J., to notify Wilson of his nomination and of the notification ceremony in Aug. 1912 (James was chairman of the committee). Other photographs include a photograph of Woodrow Wilson, signed and inscribed to Senator James; a photo of President William H. Taft and Representative Ollie Murray James on a speaker's stand in Hickman, Ky., 1909; the House and Senate of the Kentucky General Assembly in joint assembly, 1912; crowd scene at a public speech in Frankfort, Ky., during the gubernatorial campaign of A.O. Stanley, 1915; and a photograph of the notification ceremony at Shadow Lawn, N.J., in 1916 where Woodrow Wilson was informed of his renomination as president.

ArchivalResource: 47 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49243560 View

Thompson, Charles Willis. Charles W. Thompson letters, 1901-1912.

Title: Charles W. Thompson letters, 1901-1912.

Letters describe the Winfield Scott Schley controversy, 1901; Judge Alton B. Parker, a Democratic candidate; the town of Esopus, New York; William Jennings Bryan's tour, 1908; the Democratic State Convention in Rochester, New York; the fire and subsequent deaths of factory workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York, 1911; the Chicago Republican Convention and the Baltimore Democratic Convention (including impressions of Baltimore), 1912.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63934103 View

James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, 1825-1887, (bulk 1840-1866)

Title: James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers

United States president, secretary of state, and representative and senator from Pennsylvania. Correspondence, his 1858 State of the Union message, and miscellaneous items pertaining primarily to Buchanan’s career before his election as president. Also correspondence of Harriet Lane Johnston, Buchanan’s niece and White House hostess.

ArchivalResource: 1,600 items; 6 containers plus 1 oversize; 3 linear feet; 4 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010009 View

Mack, Norman E., 1858-1932. Papers, 1912-1938.

Title: Papers, 1912-1938.

Genealogy of the Moore-Montgomery ancestors of Harriet Taggart Mack; some personal letters received concerning invitations and loans to relatives, and other papers, including specifications for a Jewett refrigerator proposed for the Mack residence, a list of relatives, and clippings about Norman E. Mack, 1922-1938; political correspondence, including telegrams from William Jennings Bryan concerning the 1908 national election, correspondence with Cordell Hull, 1924-1927, Alfred E. Smith and his secretary George B. Graves, 1924-1928, and with Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1922-1937; programs and tickets from the 1912 Democratic National Convention and other political events, 1912-1936; scrapbooks of clippings about prominent men of Buffalo, Norman E. Mack and the Buffalo Evening Times, Democratic politics, the Pan-American Exposition and the assassination of President McKinley, and the prohibition reform movement, 1882-1930.

ArchivalResource: (1.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34178390 View

Henderson, Thomas Stalworth, Papers 1938; 68-11; 71-163; 93-039., 1852-1941, 1967

Title: Henderson, Thomas Stalworth, Papers 1852-1941, 1967

Including correspondence, financial papers, deeds, legal documents, literary productions, notes, photographs, and printed material, the Thomas Stalworth Henderson Papers, 1852-1941, 1967, document Henderson’s life and work as a Texas lawyer and legislator, as well as his activities in various organizations, such as the Democratic party.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/02201/02201-P.html View

Henderson, Thomas Stalworth, 1849-1937. Henderson, Thomas Stalworth, Papers, 1852-1941, 1967

Title: Henderson, Thomas Stalworth, Papers, 1852-1941, 1967

Including correspondence, financial papers, deeds, legal documents, literary productions, notes, photographs, and printed material, the Thomas Stalworth Henderson Papers, 1852-1941, 1967, document Henderson's life and work as a Texas lawyer and legislator, as well as his activities in various organizations, such as the Democratic party.

ArchivalResource: 58 ft., 8 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706817443 View

McCombs, William F. (William Frank), 1876-1921. William F. McCombs letters received, 1912-1913.

Title: William F. McCombs letters received, 1912-1913.

Nine letters, including seven by Woodrow Wilson, one by George B. Pugh, and one by Louis Wiley, relating to the 1912 Democratic National Convention and to Democratic Party politics. Also includes two statements by Wilson to be transmitted to delegates at the 1912 convention, and a 1938 letter from the political scientist William Starr Myers to the sister of W. F. McCombs, relating to the papers of McCombs.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123430019 View

George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers, 1833-1973, (bulk 1833-1900)

Title: George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers 1833-1973 (bulk 1833-1900)

Financier, lobbyist, and Confederate agent in Europe. Mainly journals of Anna J. Sanders, wife of George Nicholas Sanders, and correspondence to and from George Nicholas Sanders and other members of the Sanders family relating to mid-nineteenth century politics, social life, and the Civil War. Subjects include the activities of George Nicholas Sanders and the wartime imprisonment and death of their son, Reid Sanders, as a Confederate soldier.

ArchivalResource: 200 items; 2 containers; 1 linear foot; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012053 View

James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, 1825-1887, (bulk 1840-1866)

Title: James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers

United States president, secretary of state, and representative and senator from Pennsylvania. Correspondence, his 1858 State of the Union message, and miscellaneous items pertaining primarily to Buchanan’s career before his election as president. Also correspondence of Harriet Lane Johnston, Buchanan’s niece and White House hostess.

ArchivalResource: 1,600 items; 6 containers plus 1 oversize; 3 linear feet; 4 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010009 View

Henry, Francis, 1843-1912. Francis Henry papers, 1860-1864.

Title: Francis Henry papers, 1860-1864.

Correspondence re politics and army life, including letter, 26 May 1860, from John Stevenson, [Pontotoc County, Miss.], re political unrest associated with presidential election and dissent among local Democrats debating whether to appointment delegates to the national convention in Baltimore who backed "Seceeders" from Charleston convention or those favoring "Squater Sovereignty party" of Stephen Douglas. Letter, 29 May 1864, Camp near Richmond, [Va.], to his mother, reporitng that "strategy seems to be the policy of our enemy now instead of charging our breastworks," and speculating that since "we are now within eight miles of Richmond ... I suppose that the next battle will be fought in this vicinity." Letter, 14 July 1864, Camp near Petersburg, Va., to his mother, re death of his brother, John Andrew Henry, killed in action, 12 July 1864, while "standing looking over the breastworks at the yankees"; together with five copies of letters, 1860-1864, written from various camps in Virginia and Tennessee.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30726255 View

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873. Letter, 1851 July 29.

Title: Letter, 1851 July 29.

Letter, 29 Jul. 1851, to an unamed person discussing a paper written by the addressee, the Whig party and the Democratic Convention, and the possibility of starting a newspaper in Columbus, Ohio.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56792510 View

Aylward, John A. (John Arthur), 1861-1916. Papers, 1900-1940.

Title: Papers, 1900-1940.

Papers of John A. Aylward, a Madison, Wis. attorney, consisting largely of correspondence relative to the election of delegates to the 1912 Democratic National Convention, and later requests for patronage; and correspondence and resolutions working toward the "Wisconsin Peace Plan" for a conference of neutral nations prior to an armistice and attempts to present such a plan to President Wilson. There are copies of addresses by Aylward and others and a volume containing minutes of various state Democratic meetings in 1910.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes); plusadditions of 82 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173702259 View

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925. Resolution, 1912.

Title: Resolution, 1912.

The original typewritten resolution introduced by Bryan at the Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1912, which opposed the nomination of any candidate for president under obligation to J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas F. Ryan, August Belmont, or others "of the privilege-hunting...class"; adopted June 27, 1912.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787750 View

Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933. Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.

Title: Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.

The collection contains the correspondence of three generations of the Hubard family of Virginia and West Virginia planters, lawyers and politicians. The papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1808-1871] of Rosney and Chellowe, Buckingham Co. Va., contain letters from his brother Edmund Wilcox Hubard and his son at V. M. I. James Linnaeus Hubard. Genealogy, U. S. politics and farming are frequent topics. Most of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubbard [1839-1921] were generated by his law practice and businesses, including the presidency of the Orange-Keysville Railway. There are a few Civil War letters and copies of political letters between his father-in-law John R. Edmunds and Walter Coles as well as some genealogical material. The bulk of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1876- ],a Fayetteville, W. Va. lawyer, consists of correspondence with his wife Ruth Drewry Whittle Hubard, their children, and relatives. Family papers include land grants, wills, deeds, court orders, maps and plats, stocks and Confederate bonds, plantation journals, insurance policies, bills and receipts, and estate settlements. There are numerous clippings, greeting cards, invitations, photographs, school reports and miscellany. Of special interest in the collection are 1781 orders to William Hubard to join Nathanael Greene's southern army; class notes from lectures on economics by George Tucker; and a description of the garrison at Vera Cruz by William A. Whittle of the U. S. Ohio; Also a denouncement of Martin Van Buren for turning a relative out of office; an effort to discredit the log cabin campaign of 1840; an 1844 letter to Thomas Ritchie on the annexation of Texas; an account of a visit to V. M. I. by Millard Fillmore; and an 1852 letter on the Virginia delegates' role at the Democratic National Convention, Also an 1854 plea by an overseer on behalf of a slave named "Walker" who wishes Hubard to buy his wife; memoirs of the battle of Spotsylvania; a description of an 1870 James River flood; an 1872 appeal from Horace Greeley to support his nomination, and an 1875 description of the Va. Democratic party by Fitzhugh Lee. Also efforts to aid Jefferson's impoverished granddaughter Septimia Randolph Meikleham; 1884 papers for the Richmond, Va., Republican City Committee; a letter from William Smith commending Hubard II's legislative service, and a petition to William McKinley recommending Hubard II for an appointment. Correspondents include Philip Alexander Bruce, George Craighead Cabell, William C. Cabell, William M. Cabell, Philip St. George Cocke, John Warwick Daniel, Alfred T. Harris, John Bell Henneman, Bolling Hubard, Lyttleton E. Hubard, Sallie Edmunds Hubard, William Bolling Hubard, Thomas Staples Martin, Septimia Ann Randolph Meikleham, Richard McIlwaine, Henry Chester Parsons, Henry Smith Pritchett, Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Buckner Thruston, John Randolph Tucker and Lewis N. Whittle.

ArchivalResource: 9,600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938071 View

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845. Letter, 1835 May 31, Washington [to] Robt. M. Burton Esqr.

Title: Letter, 1835 May 31, Washington [to] Robt. M. Burton Esqr.

Personal letter to Tennessean Robert M. Burton. Discusses the Baltimore Convention (Democratic National Party Convention) which had completed its work May 25th, 1835. Advises Burton that "if ever you expect to become a member of Congress now is the time".

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 26 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24946409 View

Morris, Roland S. (Roland Sletor), 1874-1945. Roland S. Morris papers, 1856-1988 (bulk 1915-1929)

Title: Roland S. Morris papers, 1856-1988 (bulk 1915-1929)

The Roland S. Morris Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, and other materials that document Morris's family life, political involvement in the Democratic Party, and his position as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1917-1921. The collection includes correspondence between Morris and his family, particularly his wife, Augusta Shippen West, as well as official incoming correspondence during Morris's ambassadorship and correspondence from Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Wilson to Morris. Diaries and journals include travel accounts from Morris and his wife, along with a description of Morris's mission to Siberia in 1919 written by Frank C. MacDonald, an assistant at the Japanese embassy. The Writings section of the Morris Papers includes published and unpublished works relating to Japan and diplomacy. Biographical material includes information on the Morris family, particularly Morris's marriage to Augusta Shippen West in 1903.

ArchivalResource: .83 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156054247 View

Bruce, Philip Alexander, 1856-1933. Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.

Title: Papers of the Hubard family [manuscript] 1749-1951.

The collection contains the correspondence of three generations of the Hubard family of Virginia and West Virginia planters, lawyers and politicians. The papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1808-1871] of Rosney and Chellowe, Buckingham Co. Va., contain letters from his brother Edmund Wilcox Hubard and his son at V. M. I. James Linnaeus Hubard. Genealogy, U. S. politics and farming are frequent topics. Most of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubbard [1839-1921] were generated by his law practice and businesses, including the presidency of the Orange-Keysville Railway. There are a few Civil War letters and copies of political letters between his father-in-law John R. Edmunds and Walter Coles as well as some genealogical material. The bulk of the papers of Robert Thruston Hubard [1876- ],a Fayetteville, W. Va. lawyer, consists of correspondence with his wife Ruth Drewry Whittle Hubard, their children, and relatives. Family papers include land grants, wills, deeds, court orders, maps and plats, stocks and Confederate bonds, plantation journals, insurance policies, bills and receipts, and estate settlements. There are numerous clippings, greeting cards, invitations, photographs, school reports and miscellany. Of special interest in the collection are 1781 orders to William Hubard to join Nathanael Greene's southern army; class notes from lectures on economics by George Tucker; and a description of the garrison at Vera Cruz by William A. Whittle of the U. S. Ohio; Also a denouncement of Martin Van Buren for turning a relative out of office; an effort to discredit the log cabin campaign of 1840; an 1844 letter to Thomas Ritchie on the annexation of Texas; an account of a visit to V. M. I. by Millard Fillmore; and an 1852 letter on the Virginia delegates' role at the Democratic National Convention, Also an 1854 plea by an overseer on behalf of a slave named "Walker" who wishes Hubard to buy his wife; memoirs of the battle of Spotsylvania; a description of an 1870 James River flood; an 1872 appeal from Horace Greeley to support his nomination, and an 1875 description of the Va. Democratic party by Fitzhugh Lee. Also efforts to aid Jefferson's impoverished granddaughter Septimia Randolph Meikleham; 1884 papers for the Richmond, Va., Republican City Committee; a letter from William Smith commending Hubard II's legislative service, and a petition to William McKinley recommending Hubard II for an appointment. Correspondents include Philip Alexander Bruce, George Craighead Cabell, William C. Cabell, William M. Cabell, Philip St. George Cocke, John Warwick Daniel, Alfred T. Harris, John Bell Henneman, Bolling Hubard, Lyttleton E. Hubard, Sallie Edmunds Hubard, William Bolling Hubard, Thomas Staples Martin, Septimia Ann Randolph Meikleham, Richard McIlwaine, Henry Chester Parsons, Henry Smith Pritchett, Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Buckner Thruston, John Randolph Tucker and Lewis N. Whittle.

ArchivalResource: 9,600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938071 View

Lyons, Maurice F. Maurice F. Lyons Collection on William F. McCombs, 1910-1917, 1947-1948.

Title: Maurice F. Lyons Collection on William F. McCombs, 1910-1917, 1947-1948.

The Maurice F. Lyons Collection on William F. McCombs consists of typescripts of correspondence and notes by William F. McCombs regarding Woodrow Wilson's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, provided to Arthur S. Link, editor of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson by Maurice F. Lyons; correspondence between Lyons and Link concerning the transcripts is included. An addition to the collection is comprised of volumes of newspaper clippings also relating to Woodrow Wilson's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns and administrations.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156030237 View