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

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

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.

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Bailey, Josiah W.

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