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Ashmore, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1904-1989. Robert Thomas Ashmore papers, 1930-2001.

Title: Robert Thomas Ashmore papers, 1930-2001.

Chiefly correspondence, speeches, and clippings from Ashmore's time in the U.S. House. Also included are records of his campaigns for office, 1935-1970, and work with the South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments, 1970-1985. General correspondence includes both personal and public correspondence. Letters written to S.C. from Washington, D.C. reflect some private expressions of the pressures and frustrations of public service. Letters written during World War II describes Ashmore's experiences during his tour of duty in the Army Judge Advocate General Corps. Speeches, and copies of legislation sponsored by Robert Thomas Ashmore; records: House Subcommittee on Contested Elections, 1965-1968, in Minnesota, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, and elsewhere; election campaigns, 1936-1970; his work in the passage of 1966 legislation that eliminated "two price cotton"; and South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments, 1970-1985. Also includes topical files re communism and civil rights; clippings and photographs of Congressman Ashmore. Audiovisual materials include an audio tape containing a June 1966 CBS radio broadcast, Capitol Cloakroom, in which Ashmore is joined by fellow House Administration Committee member Charles E. Goodell to discuss a proposal from the President concerning campaign finance reform. Photographs from throughout Ashmore's private and political career are present. Of note are two photographs believed to have been taken in Greenville, S.C., showing President Lyndon B. Johnson on a campaign whistle-stop with Ashmore and South Carolina's senior senator, Olin D. Johnston.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29677017 View

McLeod, Daniel Rogers, 1913-1985. Daniel Rogers McLeod papers, 1957-1983.

Title: Daniel Rogers McLeod papers, 1957-1983.

Chiefly official correspondence, committee files, and other papers, relating to McLeod's activities as attorney general; includes separate series files reflecting his membership on the Judicial Modernization Committee and involvement with the Professional Responsibility Committee of the South Carolina Bar (1977-1981). Files document McLeod's active involvement as a member of the Court Organization Subcommittee and the Discipline Procedures Subcommittee, which drafted grievance rules ultimately adopted by the S.C. Supreme Court; includes minutes of meetings, membership lists of subcommittees, related memoranda, and correspondence. Correspondents include Robert T. Ashmore, Walter J. Bristow, Jr., Cyril B. Busbee, R. Markley Dennis, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, James B. Edwards, Robert C. Edwards, Donald L. Fowler, Robert W. Hemphill, James B. Holderman, Ernest F. Hollings, J. Edgar Hoover, Olin D. Johnston, Thomas F. Jones, Robert F. Kennedy, and Bruce Littlejohn. Other correspondents include James R. Mann, Robert E. McNair, Richard W. Riley, L. Mendel Rivers, Donald Russell, Strom Thurmond, and William D. Workman, Jr. Incomplete World War II memoir (c. 1985), detailing McLeod's enlistment in the U.S. Navy, his completion of an officer training course at Northwestern University, and the beginning of his tour of duty onboard the U.S.S. Mayo (17 pp.; original manuscript and photocopy); volume includes one page biographical sketch listing family information and record of positions held, and honors and awards received during his long career.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. [on site]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28417758 View

McLeod, Daniel Rogers, 1913-1985. Papers, 1957-1983.

Title: Papers, 1957-1983.

Chiefly official correspondence, committee files, and other papers, relating to McLeod's activities as attorney general and member on the Judicial Modernization and Professional Responsibility committees of the South Carolina Bar (1977-1981). Correspondents include Robert T. Ashmore, Walter J. Bristow, Jr., Cyril B. Busbee, R. Markley Dennis, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, James B. Edwards, Robert C. Edwards, Donald L. Fowler, Robert W. Hemphill, James B. Holderman, Ernest F. Hollings, J. Edgar Hoover, Olin D. Johnston, Thomas F. Jones, Robert F. Kennedy, Bruce Littlejohn, James R. Mann, Robert E. McNair, Richard W. Riley, L. Mendel Rivers, Donald Russell, Strom Thurmond, and William D. Workman, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 2417 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122404921 View

Mann, James R. (James Robert), 1920-2010. James R. Mann papers, 1948-1998.

Title: James R. Mann papers, 1948-1998.

Papers are arranged in five series: Public Papers, Personal Papers, Audio-Visual Material, Bound Volumes, and Clippings. Public Papers (19 lf.) series is divided into three sub-series: South Carolina House of Representatives (chiefly correspondence, 1949 to 1952, re education, income tax, highways, etc.); US House of Representatives (in which the topics include Labor, Energy, Textiles, Consumer Protection, Powers of the Presidency Conference files, 1975), plus correspondence from congressmen, cabinet members, and President Richard M. Nixon); and Speeches. Public Papers: Judiciary Committee files, 1973 to 1978, consist of correspondence, analyses, testimony, and research materials chiefly concerning the Nixon impeachment inquiry, Nixon's pardon, and the nominations of Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller as Vice-President, as well as an "index to the source materials accumulated by the impeachment inquiry staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary." Personal Papers series is divided into General Papers and Campaign Records. General Papers chiefly consist of correspondence and memoranda, 1948 to 1978, concerning political affairs and particularly the Democratic Party. Of particular interest are drafts of Mann's acceptance speech as chairman of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, January 1965, and financial statements for 1978. Personal Papers: Campaign Files includes a 1968 report, "Analysis of the Political Climate in the Fourth Congressional District," prepared by Oliver Quayle and Co. of New York. It examines attitudes towards President Lyndon Johnson and candidates for the Fourth Congressional seat. The Greenville County Democratic Party prepared their own report called "Consent of the Governed," located in the file: Democratic Party (State and Local). Audio-Visual Material includes ca. 40 photographs of Mann from his years in Congress, recordings of his announcement of 2 Jan. 1978 that he would not seek re-election; a discussion of President Gerald Ford's statement on crime from June 1975; a videotape of the documentary "Summer of Judgment: The Impeachment Hearings" made in March 1998. Bound Volumes, 1969 to 1978, consists of committee prints, House Documents, House Reports, and hearings chiefly concerning the proceedings of the Select Committee on Crime, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, and the Judiciary Committee. Many of these document areas of Mann's congressional career which are not reflected elsewhere in the collection, such as the Committee on the District of Columbia, Miscellaneous Hearings on Home Rule. Clippings, 1948 to 1978, chiefly concerns the Watergate investigation and impeachment hearings. Other topics of note include the inquiry in to Mann's finances and Mann's judgeship nomination to the U.S. Military Court of Appeals in 1975.

ArchivalResource: 28.75 linear ft. (23 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64598641 View