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Whitehead, Robert, 1897-1960. Papers of Robert Whitehead [manuscript], 958-1960.

Title: Papers of Robert Whitehead [manuscript], 958-1960.

The collection contains correspondence with constituents and with colleagues in the Virginia General Assembly, clippings, press releases and other information about bills and proposals. The proposed sales tax and liquor-by-the-drink are major subjects. Other topics include the American Cyanamid Company, the Motor Vehicle Responsibility Act, massive resistance and integration, patronage and appointments, railroad right of way, medical issues including polio vaccine and sterilization). Correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Fitzgerald Bemiss, Harry F. Byrd, Sr. (copy), Colgate Darden, Jr. (thank you note), Ted Dalton, Hardy C. Dillard, Leon Dure, Charles R. Fenwick, William E. Garnett, Burr P. Harrison, Francis Pickens Miller, E. Blackburn Moore, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and Louis D. Rubin. Several other members of the House of Delegates and noted public figures are represented by routine letters.

ArchivalResource: 500 (ca.) items.

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Paul, John, 1883-1964. Judicial papers, 1930-1964.

Title: Judicial papers, 1930-1964.

Case files, ca. 1930-1960, comprise the bulk of the collection. General civil and criminal case files are grouped separately from bankruptcy and land condemnation cases. Case files include two Virginia school desegregation cases which he heard in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Administrative files for the federal district court contain extensive documentation regarding case loads, rules of court, probation, and jury call decisions. Also included are professional correspondence, speeches and articles. Correspondents include Alfred D. Barksdale, Albert V. Bryan, Armistead M. Dobie, Ted Dalton, Sterling Hutcheson, John J. Parker, Floyd H. Roberts, Simon E. Sobeloff, Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., and Roby C. Thompson.

ArchivalResource: 94 boxes (36 linear ft.)

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Jervey, Edward Drewry, 1929-. Papers of Edward Drewry Jervey [manuscript], 1961-1974.

Title: Papers of Edward Drewry Jervey [manuscript], 1961-1974.

Include office files of Philip J. Hirschkop, attorney for Jervey in his 1972 suit against Charles K. Martin, Jr., President, and the Board of Visitors of Radford College concerning academic freedom. The files contain depositions, related court decisions regarding teachers' rights, correspondence, exhibits, minutes of Board of Visitors regarding salaries, briefs, jury lists, statements, subpeonas, and other supporting documents.

ArchivalResource: 725 items.

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Whitehead, Robert, 1897-1960. Papers of Robert Whitehead, 1958-1960.

Title: Papers of Robert Whitehead, 1958-1960.

The collection contains correspondence with constituents and with colleagues in the Virginia General Assembly, clippings, press releases and other information about bills and proposals. The proposed sales tax and liquor-by-the-drink are major subjects. Other topics include the American Cyanamid Company, the Motor Vehicle Responsibility Act, massive resistance and integration, patronage and appointments, railroad right of way, medical issues including polio vaccine and sterilization). Correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Fitzgerald Bemiss, Harry F. Byrd, Sr. (copy), Colgate Darden, Jr. (thank you note), Ted Dalton, Hardy C. Dillard, Leon Dure, Charles R. Fenwick, William E. Garnett, Burr P. Harrison, Francis Pickens Miller, E. Blackburn Moore, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and Louis D. Rubin. Several other members of the House of Delegates and noted public figures are represented by routine letters.

ArchivalResource: 500 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61395412 View

Angell, Hughes T. Papers of Hughes Angell [manuscript], 1929, 1943-1981.

Title: Papers of Hughes Angell [manuscript], 1929, 1943-1981.

The papers of Hughes T. "Jubal" Angell consist mainly of political autographs and memorabilia including the telephone directory of the Democratic National Committee found at the Watergate Hotel. Other Watergate related items include photographs of the complex and tape recordings of Richard Nixon's resignation speech, Gerald Ford's inauguration and House Judiciary Committee impeachment proceedings. Of interest are material regarding the Ground Hog Club of America, with a letter from Jimmy Stewart and a telegram from Arthur Godfrey; a letter from the White House regarding the Air Traffic Controller's Strike; and an invitation to a birthday ball in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The collection also contains various campaign letters, buttons and papers including routine letters from Harry F. Byrd, Sr., Ted Dalton, Linwood Holton, and Richard A. Poff.

ArchivalResource: 90 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647914799 View

Muse, Benjamin. Papers : of Benjamin Muse, 1934-1966.

Title: Papers : of Benjamin Muse, 1934-1966.

The collection consists chiefly of Muse's correspondence and speeches on Virginia political issues, particularly the adoption of social security in the 1930s and massive resistance in the 1950s. Much of the latter correspondence came in response to his column "Virginia Affairs" for the Washington Post, his Manasses Messenger editorials, and articles in national magazines. Other topics include his break with the Democratic Party in 1936, his gubernatorial candidacy in 1941, and his research in Virginia for Presidential Nominating Politics in 1952. Several chapters of an autobiography are included. Scrapbooks of news clippings and a copy of Tarheel Tommy Atkins complete the collection. Correspondents include John Stewart Battle, Frank Bane, Sarah Patton Boyle, Harry Flood Byrd, Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., Lenoir Chambers, Virginius Dabney, Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, Colgate Whitehead Darden, and Leslie W. Dunbar. Other correspondents are Patrick Henry Drewry, Edwin B. Henderson, Oliver Hill, Francis Pickens Miller, George Campbell Peery, James Price, Howard Worth Smith, Thomas Bahnson Stanley, Henry Alexander Wise, and many Virginia legislators.

ArchivalResource: 975 items.

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Muse, Benjamin. Papers of Benjamin Muse [manuscript], 1934-1966.

Title: Papers of Benjamin Muse [manuscript], 1934-1966.

The collection consists chiefly of Muse's correspondence and speeches on Virginia political issues, particularly the adoption of social security in the 1930s and massive resistance in the 1950s. Much of the latter correspondence came in response to his column "Virginia Affairs" for the Washington Post, his Manassas Messenger editorials, and articles in national magazines. Other topics include his break with the Democratic Party in 1936, his gubernatorial candidacy in 1941, and his research in Virginia for Presidential Nominating Politics in 1952. Several chapters of an autobiography are included. Scrapbooks of news clippings and a copy of Tarheel Tommy Atkins complete the collection. Correspondents include John Stewart Battle, Frank Bane, Sarah-Patton Boyle, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Lenoir Chambers, Virginius Dabney, Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, Colgate Whitehead Darden, and Leslie W. Dunbar. Other correspondents are Patrick Henry Drewry, Edwin B. Henderson, Oliver Hill, Francis Pickens Miller, George Campbell Peery, James Price, Howard Worth Smith, Thomas Bahnson Stanley, Henry Alexander Wise, and many Virginia legislators.

ArchivalResource: 975 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647834947 View

Buck, J. L. Blair (James Lawrence Blair), 1886-1967. Papers of James Lawrence Blair Buck [manuscript] / compiled by Buck as president of the Virginia Committee for Public Schools, 1931 [1958-60].

Title: Papers of James Lawrence Blair Buck [manuscript] / compiled by Buck as president of the Virginia Committee for Public Schools, 1931 [1958-60].

The collection records the Committee's efforts to fight massive resistance, support the Perrow commission's freedom of choice plan and keep open the public schools. It contains by-laws, minutes, correspondence of the state steering committee and the local committees, financial records, a few legal papers, speeches and articles. Copies of 1959 bills on education, the report of the Perrow commission and articles on the history of the committee by William Marion Lightsey, its executive secretary, are included. With these papers is an article, 1931, "Gravel in the shoe, or 'I know the Negro'" by Buck and clippings and articles on desegregated education accumulated by Buck in the 1950s as coordinator of teacher education for the Virginia State Department of Education. In this group are papers on the Prince Edward Co. segregation case and the 1955 Gray commission on education. Other organizations represented in the collection are the Virginia Society for the Preservation of Public Education, the Virginia Council on Human Relations, The Southern Regional Council, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties. The collection includes correspondence or speeches by James Lindsay Almond, Eugene Tucker Carlton, John Stewart Battle, Virginius Dabney, Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Robert Douthat Meade, Francis Pickens Miller, Mosby Garland Perrow, Lorin Andrew Thompson, James McIlhany Thomson & Robert Whitehead.

ArchivalResource: 1,350 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647948102 View

Virginia Committee for Public Schools. File of William M. Lightsey, [manuscript] 1959-60.

Title: File of William M. Lightsey, [manuscript] 1959-60.

The collection contains some correspondence, executive board minutes, a budget Jan.-Mar. 1959, a financial report, Sept. 1959, travel expenses, and an account by Francis Pickens Miller of the reaction in Charlottesville to the court order striking down massive resistance. Correspondents include James Lawrence Blair Buck, Ted Dalton, William Newton Neff, Paul M. Rilling The Southern regional council, Catherine Wood (Richard) Smith, O. Glenn Stahl, & Knox Turnbull.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647928196 View

Wensel, Louise O. Papers of Louise O. Wensel [manuscript], 1958-1993 (bulk 1958).

Title: Papers of Louise O. Wensel [manuscript], 1958-1993 (bulk 1958).

Wensel's papers pertain entirely to her 1958 Senatorial campaign against Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr., and include correspondence, editorials, press releases speeches, and newspaper articles together with her own account of her candidacy "Virginia Candidate for the United States Senate in 1958: Defeating Harry Byrd's 'Massive Resistance' School-Closing Policy." Letters from friends and supporters discuss her platform, views on massive resistance, segregation and integrated schools, the Byrd organization, and campaign contributions and assistance. There is scattered correspondence of her campaign manager Richard Bain. Of interest is a letter from Charlottesville newspaper publisher Randolph L. White explaining that he gave her a mild endorsement because a stronger one would arouse a white protest vote against any candidate endorsed by a Negro paper. Post campaign material includes letters concerning Senator Curry Carter's harrassing suit against Wensel, the death of Joseph Freehill, and concerns for the safety of her children. Kathryn Stone's analysis of long term results of her campaign are briefly noted. There is also an article by Paul Dawson "Can a Doctor Afford to Be Controversial."

ArchivalResource: 335 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647841870 View

Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Papers of Harry Flood Byrd [manuscript] 1911-65.

Title: Papers of Harry Flood Byrd [manuscript] 1911-65.

Business papers range from 1914-1965 and consist chiefly of correspondence, bills & receipts regarding Byrd's apple orchards, with some material on Northern Virginia newspapers he published, and Cuban business interests. Virginia political papers, 1911-32, describe the organization of the Byrd machine but do not contain gubernatorial files. U.S. senatorial papers, 1933-65, still deal chiefly with Byrd's interest in Virginia politics though material on national interests is present. Complementing the political correspondence are appointment books, magazine articles, newsclippings, constituent's mail, 1957 & 1960-65, voting records, 1933-65, speeches of Byrd and others, public statements & press releases, scrap-books and political cartoons. Family papers contain correspondence and some business and legal papers of Richard Evelyn Byrds, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Flood Byrd, and Henry Delaware Flood. Topics of interest include the Democratic Party, Natinal Committee and the Democratic Party, Virginia, State Central Committee, Byrd's 1925 gubernatorial campaign, the Democratic National conventions, 1932, 40, & 52, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1934, poll taxes, Virginia election laws & Virginia elections, the 1952, 58 & 64 senatorial campaigns, the 1965 Civil Rights Act, Virginia highways, drought relief, 1931, the Alfalfa Club, appointments & other patronage for constituents, Byrd family genealogy, school desegregation, massive resistance, fiscal conservatism, local Virginia politics, the Bricker amendment & isolationism, and the Republican campaigns of 1952 & 56. Correspondents include Watkins Moorman Abbitt, Edwin Anderson Alderman, James Lindsay Almond, T. Coleman Andrews, Alben Williams Barkley, A.D. Barksdale, John Stewart Battle, William S. Battle, Ezra Taft Benson, Lloyd C. Bird, Armistead Lloyd Boothe, Claude Gernade Bowers, Louis Brownlow, David Tennant Bryan, Robert Young Button, James Cannon, Lenoir Chambers, Albert Benjamin Chander, Everett Randolph Combs, Thomas Terry Connally, Virginius Dabney, Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, Josephus Daniels, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Collins Denny, Everett McKinley Dirkson, E. Griffity Dodson, Clifford Dowdey, James Oliver Eastland, Cyrus Eaton, Dwight David Eisenhower, Pres. U.S., James Aloysius Farley, Junius Rodes Fishburne, Hiran Leong Fong, Douglas Southall Freeman, Carter Glass, Mills Edwin Godwin, Barry Morris Goldwater, Charles Johnston Harkrader, Burr Powell Harrison, Carl Trumbull Hayden, Herbert Clark Hoover, Pres. U.S., John Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, Louis Isaac Jaffé, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Pres. U.S., Robert Francis Kennedy, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Arthur Krock, John Llewellyn Lewis, Walter Lippman, Henry Cabot Lodge, George Walter Mapp, Michael Joseph Mansfield, Thomas Staples Martin, Lucy Randolph Mason, George Meany, Francis Pickens Miller, Edmund Sixtus Muskie, Richard Milhous Nixon, Pres. U.S., John Paul, Drew Pearson, George Campbell Peery, Gifford Pinchot, John Garland Pollard, Sam Rayburn, Absolam Willis Robertson, John Davison Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Brevard Russell, Leverett Saltonstall, Fred Otto Seibel, Campbell Bascom Slemp, Sidney F. Small, George Armistead Smathers, Howard Worth Smith, Margaret Chase Smith, Louis Spilman, John Cornelius Stennis, Claude Augustus Swanson, George Frederick Switzer, William Stuart Swmington, Herman Eugene Talmadge, James Strom Thurmond, Elbert Lee Trinkle, Harry S. Truman, William Munford Tuck, Millard E. Tydings, Arthur Hendrik Vandenburg, Henry Agard Wallace, Burton Kendall Wheeler, Landon Wyatt, William T. Reed, & Fred Weiser.

ArchivalResource: 273 ft.

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James H. Latimer Papers, 1864-2000

Title: James H. Latimer Papers, 1864-2000

Papers, 1864-2000 (bulk 1934-2000), of James H. Latimer, Richmond Times-Dispatch political reporter and columnist. Includes annual reports, articles, book reviews, broadsides, bumper stickers, cartoons, clippings, correspondence, editorials, election results, greeting cards, magazines, maps, memoirs, memorandums, newsletters, newspapers, notes, obituaries, photographs, press releases, programs, program scripts, rough drafts, scrapbooks, and speeches primarily relating to Virginia and national politics, national, state, and local elections, journalism, and Virginia history.

ArchivalResource: ca. 18 cubic feet (39 boxes)

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Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010. James J. Kilpatrick papers [manuscript], 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966).

Title: James J. Kilpatrick papers [manuscript], 1925-1966 (bulk 1950-1966).

The collection consists of the correspondence and writings of James J. Kilpatrick, including correspondence with his readers, fellow journalists, and prominent public figures; editorials; speeches; and the manuscripts for "The sovereign states," "The lasting south," "The smut peddlars," and "The Southern case for school segretation." The dominant theme is Federal infringement on State's rights including the issues of segregation, interposition, and flouridation. Other topics include payola, Richmond Virginians baseball team, the National Conference of Editorial Writers and a debate with Martin Luther King, Jr., on the nation's future. Major correspondents include Edwin M. Almond, Jim Bishop, Allen C. Brownfeld, William F. Buckley, Jr., Harry F. Byrd, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, Colgate W. Darden, Roscoe Ellard, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Donald M. Ewing, Dick Fojut, Howard C. Gilmer, Joseph Addison Hagan, Anthony Harrigan, Burr P. Harrison, Human Events, Verne P. Kaub, David Lawrence, Shelby Little, William Loeb, Dr. Robert Needles, J. R. Orgain, Jr., Robert Whaley Orrell, Robert B. Patterson, Drew Pearson, Carleton Putnam, Lawrence R. Quarles, Henry Regnery, Donald R. Richberg, A. Willis Robertson, George W. Rogers, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Paul Saunier, Jr., the Spadea Syndicate, Thomas B. Stanley, Ulrich and Dorothy Troubetzkoy, William M. Tuck, United Feature Syndicate, Virginia Press Association, J. Barrye Wall, Robert Whitehead, John J. Wicker, John Cook Wyllie, Writers of one or two brief letters include Watkins M. Abbit, J. Lindsay Almond, T. Coleman Andrews, Fitzgerald Bemiss, Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., Julien Binford, Loyd C. Bird, McLemore Birdsong, James Baylor Blackford, John B. Boatwright, Jr., Armistead L. Boothe, Sarah-Patton Boyle, James H. Brewer, Owen Brewster, Joel Broyhill, Matthew Bruccoli, D. Tennant Bryan, Thomas Pinckney Bryan, J. L. Blair Buck, Warren E. Burger, Robert Y. Button, Mortimer Caplin, Margaret Haley Carpenter, Howard H. Carwile, Bruce Catton, Anthony J. Celebrezze, Bennett Cerf, Allan Knight Chalmers, Lenoir Chambers, Leslie Cheek, Walter N. Chinn, Randolph W. Church, Joseph S. Clark, Josephine G. Clark, J. Calvitt Clarke, Monroe Cockrell, Weldon Cooper, Norman Cousins, Kenneth R. Crispell, Virginius Dabney, John E. Dahlquist, Ted Dalton, Dominick V. Daniels, Donald Davidson, E. F. S. Davies, James C. Davis, Lambert Davis, Ralph de Toledano, Collins Denny, Jr., Gottfried Dietze, Hardy C. Dillard, Thomas J. Dodd, E. Griffith Dodson, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, John Dos Passos, Clifford Dowdey, Thomas N. Downing, Leon Dure, James O. Eastland, James E. Edmonds, Pocahontas Wight Edmunds, Mamie Eisenhower, Sam Ervin, Also Orval Faubus, Marshall Fishwick, Guy Friddell, Murray Friedman, Foster Furcolo, Francis Pendleton Gaines, John Gange, George Garrett, J. Vaughan Gary, James J. Geary, Henry Gemmill, Carter Glass, III, Mills Godwin, Harry Golden, Eric F. Goldman, Barry Goldwater, Albert Gore, J. Segar Gravatt, Garland Gray, John A. Griffin, Robert P. Griffin, S. Marvin Griffin, Erwin N. Griswold, Ernest Gruening, Raymond R. Guest, Harry F. Guggenheim, Edward J. Gurney, T. Marshall Hahn Jr., Leigh Hanes, Porter Hardy, Jr., Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Deryl Hart, Booton Herndon, William S. Hildreth, Luther H. Hodges, Reynold D. Hogle, A. Linwood Holton, Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, A. E. Dick Howard, Dowell J. Howard, Edward W. Hudgins, Carl Humelsine, Hubert Humphrey, Thomas H. Hunter, Sterling Hutcheson, William Inge, CaryF. Jacob, William E. Jenner, John M. Jennings, J. Winston Johns, Forney Johnston, B. Everett Jones, Sidney S. Kellam, R. Wayne Kernodle, Russell Kirk, Warren P. Knowles, Arthur Krock, Alfred M. Landon, William E. Larsen, J. Bracken Lee, Albert Lévitt, Russell Long, Also Dumas Malone, Harrison Mann, Jr., John O. Marsh, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Rumsey Marvin, Linton Massey, John L. McClellan, Edward O. McCue III, James Douglas McKay, Harry Meacham, M. J. Menefee, Frank Pitts Moncure. A.S. Mike Monroney, E. Blackburn Moore, Sidney Grant Morse, Wayne Morse, Robert Moses, William P. Murphy, Hyde Murray, Edmund S. Muskie, Maurine B. Neuberger, Robert N. C. Nix, Elizabeth Copeland Norfleet, G. Warren Nutter, William B. O'Neal, E. J. Oglesby, William Old, Elizabeth H. Osth, John Crump Parker, T. Nelson Parker, Davis Young Paschall, Kenneth C. Patty, William H. Peden, Fred Pollard, J. Sergeant Reynolds, John Q. Rhodes, F.D.G. Ribble, Homer Richey, Wilfred Ritz, Ruby Altizer Roberts, George Romney, John J. Rooney, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Parke Rouse, Vermont Royster, William A. Rusher, Dean Rusk, Lao and Walter Russell, Richard B. Russell, Allan H. Ryskind, Richard S. Salant, Terry Sanford, Reed Sarratt, David E. Satterfield, Jr., Davie E. Satterfield, III, Charles M. Schulz, Philip L. Scruggs, Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., D. French Slaughter, Also Howard K. Smith, Howard Worth Smith, Louis Spilman, Lawrence E. Spivak, John Stennis, A.E.S. Stephens, Adlai Stevenson, Lindley J. Stiles, Kathryn H. Stone, Lewis L. Strauss, Warren H. Strother, Earl G. Swem, William F. Swindler, Carl Swisher, G. Fred Switzer, Herman E. Talmadge, Lorin A. Thompson, Strom Thurmond, George Bell Timmerman, Jr., Henry St., George Tucker, Jr., D. Gardiner Tyler, Stewart Udall, George C. Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, William C. Wampler, Robert Welch, Jr., E. B. White, Roy Wilkens, Robert M. Wilkin, J. Harvie Wilkinson, John J. Williams, Earl Wilson, Edward H. Winter, Jennngs, C. Wise, Art Wood, William H. Wranek The collection also contains book reviews by University of Virginia Librarian John Cook Wyllie

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747040790 View

Perrow, Mosby Garland, 1909-. Papers of Mosby Garland Perrow [manuscript], 1863-1962 (bulk 1940-1962).

Title: Papers of Mosby Garland Perrow [manuscript], 1863-1962 (bulk 1940-1962).

The collection contains personal, legal, financial, and political papers of Perrow. Personal papers concern family estate settlements; his farm near Lynchburg, Va.; real estate transactions; taxes; recommendations; and Lynchburg civic and religious activities particularly the Female Orphan Asylum, the Hospital Authority and the Memorial Methodist Church. Legislative papers pertain chiefly to the Perrow Commission, 1958-1959, whose final report advocated freedom of choice, or local option, to end "Massive Resistance" to court ordered integration and the consequent public school closings. Other legislative papers document his terms on the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council, 1947-1960; and on the Committee to Study the System of Public Schools in Virginia, 1944-1947. With these is some general material on public education in Virginia. Correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, John S. Battle, John B. Boatwright, Armistead L. Boothe, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., Cassius M. Chichester, Lewis Preston Collins, Everett R. Combs, Ted Dalton, Colgate W. Darden, E. Griffith Dodson, Wilson Gee, Garland Gray, A. Willis Robertson, William M. Tuck, and Clifton A. Woodrum.

ArchivalResource: 2600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647830788 View

Dalton, Ted, 1901-1989. Papers, 1933-1978, 1952-1959.

Title: Papers, 1933-1978, 1952-1959.

Papers, 1933-1978, of Ted Dalton, Virginia state senator, 1944-1959; Republican candidate for governor of Virginia in 1953 and 1957; and U.S. District judge for the Western district of Virginia. Includes correspondence, speeches, news clippings, photographs, recordings, reels of film and legal opinions. Subjects covered include Republican Party politics, the Virginia General Assembly, highways, compulsory automobile insurance, segregation, the Gray Commission Report (Commission on Public Education), the College of William and Mary, and Dalton's appointment as federal judge. Prominent correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, Howard Baker, Ezra T. Benson, Harry F. Byrd, Sr., Harry F. Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton, Colgate W. Darden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald R. Ford, Mills E. Godwin, Albertis S. Harrison, A. Linwood Holton, J. Edgar Hoover, A.E. Dick Howard, Richard Nixon, Davis Y. Paschall, Richard H. Poff, Lewis F. Powell, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Thomas B. Stanley, A.E.S. Stephens, William M. Tuck, and Edward E. Willey.

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23461002 View

MacClenny, W. E. (Wilbur Earnest), b. 1875. Papers of Wilbur Earnest MacClenny [manuscript], 1789-1949 bulk 1900-1949.

Title: Papers of Wilbur Earnest MacClenny [manuscript], 1789-1949 bulk 1900-1949.

The papers consist of correspondence, 1900-1949, and diaries, 1900-1902, 1935-1940, of MacClenny together with his topical files on the history and genealogy of Suffolk and Nansemond County, Va., and Gates County, N.C. Religious and military history of the area were his chief interests and there is considerable material on the Christian denomination, its local congregations, the Eastern Virginia Christian Conference, and early leader James O'Kelly. There are also research notes, rosters, and histories of local participation in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish American War and World War I. Items of interest include cargo manifests for two ships, 1814 and 1824; arithmetic book, 1826-1828; copies of Civil War diaries, chiefly Union, mentioning local battles; a ledger for Smith and Bigelow, merchants, of Norfolk, 1901; two engraving blocks from Harpers weekly, 1863 May 2, one depicting Suffolk, Va., and the other major General Peck's headquarters at Suffolk.; and a report, 1941, on the poll tax and voter registration in Virginia by Ted Dalton, R.K. Gooch, and James P. Woods. Luther Porter Jackson and George Washington Carver are correspondents. The collection also contains correspondence, 1922-1924, of Joseph Henry Riddick, executive secretary of the Virginia Literary and Athletic League concerning high school debating tournaments at the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 5000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647826802 View

[Ted Dalton : Australian Art and Artists file].

Title: [Ted Dalton : Australian Art and Artists file].

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Boothe, Armistead Lloyd, 1907-. Papers of Armistead Lloyd Boothe [manuscript] 1948-69.

Title: Papers of Armistead Lloyd Boothe [manuscript] 1948-69.

Boothe's papers are almost entirely political. The majority deal with 1950s Virginia school desegregation, and contain correspondence, official reports, publications, questionaires, legislative bills, petitions, and Boothe's memos on Brown vs. the Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, massive resistance, interposition, the Stanley plan, the Gray report, the Boothe-Dalton plan, and the Perrow report. Other Virginia state senate papers cover the topics of appropriations, redistricting, the revision of the Virginia code of statute law, and the repeal of the poll tax. There is also some material from Boothe's U.S. Senate campaign in 1966, his Va. state senate and lt. governor campaigns, 1953-61, and his work for the Kennedys in 1960 and 1968. Among the correspondents are James Lindsay Almond, William Cullen Battle, Edward L. Breeden, Harry Flood Byrd, Albertis Sydney Harrison, Claudia Alta (Taylor) Johnson, and Absolam Willis Robertson.

ArchivalResource: 5000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647934680 View

McWane, Frederick William, 1889-. Papers : of Frederick William McWane, 1912-1961.

Title: Papers : of Frederick William McWane, 1912-1961.

Political material comprises the bulk of the collection. McWane's efforts for the Republican party on a local, state, and national basis are reflected in correspondence with the Republican National Committee, the Republican National Finance Committee, the Virginia Republican State Central Committee, various Republican county committees, the National Taft for President Committee, 1948, and the Committee, 1952. There is correspondence with numerous state and civic improvement organizations including the Virginia Advisory Council on the Virginia Economy, the Lynchburg, Va. City Council, the Lynchburg, Va. Sesquicentennial, the Lynchburg, Va. Citizens Downtown and Parking Committee, the Lynchburg, Va. Board of Zoning Appeals, and the Newcomen Society of the United States. Also, the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce Committee for Cooperation in Post War Construction, the Society of Virginians, and the Virginia World War II History Commission. Correspondents include Lloyd C. Bird, Ted Dalton, Charles P. Gillespie, Greene H. Lawson, Edward Leonard Bacher, Robert Alphonso Taft, Richard Harding Poff, Earl Lutz, Herbert Hoover, Carroll Reece, and Henry Alexander Wise.

ArchivalResource: 6800 items (5 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29734090 View