Papers relating to the publication of "The governors of Virginia 1860-1978," edited by Moore and Edward Eugene Younger, 1966-1982.

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Papers relating to the publication of "The governors of Virginia 1860-1978," edited by Moore and Edward Eugene Younger, 1966-1982.

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In the editorial files are correspondence and related materials regarding fund raising, publication and promotion, critiques, permissions to publish, copyright, statistics on governors, biographies of contributors, an earlier proposed history of post Civil War Virginia and a eulogy to Edward Younger. There are also drafts of the manuscript and a correspondence file with all the contributors. Correspondents include James Lindsay Almond, Albertis Sydney Harrison, Mills Edwin Godwin.

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Godwin, Mills E. (Mills Edwin), 1914-1999

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Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr. was born 19 November 1914 in Nansemond County, Va. He graduated from the College of William and Mary and received his law degree from the University of Virginia. Godwin married Katherine Thomas Beale. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, the Virginia State Senate, as lieutenant governor and and as governor for two terms. Godwin switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party between his two gubernatorial terms. He doubled aid for education, began the c...

Younger, Edward, 1909-

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Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

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Lawyer, of Roanoke and Richmond, Va.; Roanoke City Hustings Court judge; member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1945-1948; Attorney General of Virginia, 1948-1957; Governor of Virginia, 1959-1962; judge, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1963-1986. From the description of Papers, 1850-1987. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 33953204 Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Mari...

Moore, James Tice

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Harrison, Albertis S. (Albertis Sydney), 1907-1995

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Jay Winston Johns, Jr. was a coal industrialist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who moved to Virginia and became a leader in preserving homes of renowned Virginians. He married Helen Lambert (1881-1964). Johns became blind in the late 1950's. He and his wife owned "Ash Lawn," Albemarle County, Virginia which had been the home of James Monroe and designed by Thomas Jefferson. Johns was founder of the Lee-Jackson Memorial, Inc., a foundation dedicated to preserving the memo...