Thurmond Chatham papers, 1898-1956 [manuscript].

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Thurmond Chatham papers, 1898-1956 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31908571

The collection includes correspondence, bills and receipts, and other materials relating to Richard Thurmond Chatham, chiefly 1949-1956. Most materials touch on Chatham's legislative career only superifically; very few deal directly with legislation or other issues in which Chatham must have been involved. Files include a mixture of personal materials (clubs; travel, including hunting and fishing expeditions; some family materials; interests in birding, gardening, farming; life in Washington, D.C.), business materials (Chatham Manufacturing Company, land deals, and other investments), and legislative/political materials (mostly minor references to various issues and elections, except for 1954-1956 when there are files on foreign affairs). Included are a few letters of Thurmond Clarke, California Superior Court judge, and, later, U.S. District Court judge, about social affairs and his confirmation to the district court, and from H. Smith Richardson, a hunting companion of Chatham's whose letters sometimes touch on political issues. Items relating to foreign affairs, while not extensive, include materials about the House Committee of Foreign Affairs; the Foreign Service; and mutual defense and educational exchange legislation. There are also a few family photographs and several photographs of the flood of 1898, when part of the Chatham Manufacturing Company's plant floated away.

About 5000 items (9.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7330219

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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