Edward Ward Carmack Papers, . 1850-1942

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Edward Ward Carmack Papers, ., 1850-1942

Edward Ward Carmack Papers, . 1850-1942

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Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) of Sumner County, Tenn., was a lawyer, editor of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., newspapers, prohibitionist, United States representative, 1897-1901, and senator, 1901-1907. The collection contains the papers of Edward Ward Carmack, chiefly pertaining to his elections to the House, 1896 and 1898; his Senate re-election defeat in 1906; and his defeat in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, 1908. Included are correspondence and papers relating to the campaigns along with speeches and letters of congratulations; political scrapbooks including one concerning the Philippines; clippings; messages received about Carmack's assassination; personal and business papers of Carmack's widow and son in the 1920s, including items relating to land in Lakeland, Fla.; a lettercopy book of a lumber business in Burnside, Ky., 1894-1895; pictures primarily of unidentified individuals, including postcards of African American agricultural laborers; and two photograph albums of African American agricultural laborers from the farm or plantation, probably in Alabama. Rosemary

5,000; 6.0

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection