James Mathews Griggs Papers, . 1836, 1892-1913

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James Mathews Griggs Papers, ., 1836, 1892-1913

James Mathews Griggs Papers, . 1836, 1892-1913

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Griggs,James_Mathews.html

James Mathews Griggs (1861-1910) was a teacher, lawyer, state circuit judge, political leader, and United States representative (1896-1910), from Dawson, Ga. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs. Much of the correspondence is with constituents, Georgia political leaders, and members of the judiciary and the press, and relates to public issues and activities in Congress during Griggs's term of office, 1896-1910, as United States representative from Georgia. Among the subjects discussed are elections and candidates, rural mail service, railroad rates, tariff reduction, national forests, farming, Prohibition, the Panama Canal, and appropriations for the Post Office Department and the Army. Also included is correspondence with overseers of Griggs's farm at Shellman, Ga.

2500; 4.5

eng,

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