Papers, 1841-1929.

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Papers, 1841-1929.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19642870

Correspondence, memoirs, business papers, legal documents, poems, and other papers (largely after 1865). Pre-Civil War letters deal mainly with personal and legal matters and with the Democratic convention in Charleston, S.C., 1860, and presidential election of 1860. Post-war correspondence concerns the history of journalism in North Carolina, Reconstruction, the Ku-Klux Klan, Holden's impeachment as governor and conviction, 1871, and life and politics in Washington during the period of Radical control.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6966300

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)

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Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892

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Journalist and governor of North Carolina, from Raleigh (Wake Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1841-1929. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19642870 W. W. Holden served as provisional governor of North Carolina in 1868 and as governor from 1868 to 1870. From the description of W. W. Holden correspondence, 1846-1870. WorldCat record id: 23186272 William Woods Holden was born in Hillsborough, N.C., in 1818. He served as provisional g...