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Butler, Geo. E. (George Edwin), 1868-1941. Geo. E. Butler papers, 1922-1939 [manuscript].

Title: Geo. E. Butler papers, 1922-1939 [manuscript].

The collection includes correspondence, notes, printed material, and other items of George E. Butler, relating primarily to his political career, including his campaign for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate in 1930 and his attempts to secure appointment as judge of the U.S. Court of Claims in 1929, the Federal Power Commission in 1930, clerk of federal court in 1932, and federal receiver for failed banks in 1932. Other files relate to the North Carolina Bar Association, 1925-1926; public education in North Carolina, 1922; and criminal prosecution resulting from the failure of the Bank of Clinton, 1929-1932. A series of general political material, 1924-1939, reflects Butler's involvement in Republican Party organization and politics as well as his concern with federal and national political activities. The collection contains material relating to Charles A. Jonas, Isaac M. Meekins, Marion Butler, H. Brownlow Jackson, W. Giles Mebane, and Jake F. Newell, among others.

ArchivalResource: About 1,650 items (3.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26041031 View

Meekins, Isaac Melson, 1875-1946. Isaac Melson Meekins papers, 1905; 1924-1925; 1933, 1936?

Title: Isaac Melson Meekins papers, 1905; 1924-1925; 1933, 1936?

A journal, 1905, kept by Isaac Meekins on a trip to Ireland, Scotland, England, and France, with Dr. William Louis Poteat; a volume containing an expense account, January-February 1922, kept by Meekins as manager for Enemy Insurance Company; clippings, 1924-1925, related to Meekins's gubernatorial campaign and his appointment as U.S. District Court judge in 1924; a letter, 1933, from Meekins to his daughter, Mary Purefoy Meekins, conveying his library to her and describing his reading habits; and a speech, 1936?, by an unknown author to the North Carolina Republican Convention, seconding the nomination of William C. Meekins "... to lead that great corps of Republican candidates over the roads and this great labyrinth of highways in the state of N.C. and plant the banner of the Grand Old Party at the door of the Capital in Raleigh ... ."

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25533704 View

E. Y. Webb Papers (#3482), 1901-1955

Title: E. Y. Webb Papers (#3482) 1901-1955

Edwin Yates Webb of Shelby, Cleveland County, N.C., a lawyer, was Democratic Party United States Representative for the Ninth North Carolina District (Burke, Cleveland, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, and Mecklenburg counties), 1903-1919, and United States judge for the Western District of North Carolina, 1919-1948. The collection contains primarily correspondence documenting Webb's career in Congress and on the bench. Congressional correspondence concerns the interests of constituents; prohibition, of which Webb was a leading advocate; agricultural and labor legislation; the tariff; nativism; women's suffrage; pure food and drug laws; issues surrounding World War I; Democratic Party politics; Webb's re-election campaigns; and other matters. Beginning in 1919, correspondence relates to law; the judiciary; politics; civic and personal concerns, including Gardner-Webb College; and national, state, and local prohibition. Also included are papers relating to bankruptcy proceedings against the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway Company. Prominent correspondents include Odus M. Mull, Webb's law partner in Shelby, N.C.; Charles A. Jonas; Robert N. Page; Herbert L. Davis; Josiah W. Bailey; David Clark; Heriot Clarkson; Henry Groves Connor; Josephus Daniels; O. Max Gardner; Wade Hampton Harris; Clyde R. Hoey; Claude Kitchin; Isaac M. Meekins; Lee S. Overman; John J. Parker; Clarence H. Poe; William Louis Poteat; Joseph Hyde Pratt; Daniel A. Tompkins; and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: About 8,000 items (12.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03482/ View

Isaac Melson Meekins Papers, 1905, 1922-1925, 1933, 1936?

Title: Isaac Melson Meekins Papers, 1905, 1922-1925, 1933, 1936?

Isaac Melson Meekins (1875-1946) of Elizabeth City, N.C., was a lawyer, U.S. district court judge, and Republican political leader. The collection includes a journal, 1905, kept by Isaac Meekins on a trip to Ireland, Scotland, England, and France, with Dr. William Louis Poteat; a volume containing an expense account, January-February 1922, kept by Meekins as manager for Enemy Insurance Company; clippings, 1924-1925, related to Meekins's gubernatorial campaign and his appointment as U.S. District Court judge in 1924; a letter, 1933, from Meekins to his daughter, Mary Purefoy Meekins, conveying his library to her and describing his reading habits; and a speech, 1936?, by an unknown author to the North Carolina Republican Convention, seconding the nomination of William C. Meekins ... to lead that great corps of Republican candidates over the roads and this great labyrinth of highways in the state of N.C. and plant the banner of the Grand Old Party at the door of the Capital in Raleigh ... .

ArchivalResource: 4 items

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Meekins,Isaac_Melson.html View