Papers of Harry Flood Byrd, [manuscript],1928-1965.

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Papers of Harry Flood Byrd, [manuscript],1928-1965.

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, press releases, clippings, and research materials. The collection contains Byrd's topical files on states' rights and civil rights issues including national civil rights legislation, 1960-1965, federal programs, Little Rock, lynching, poll taxes, the presidential election of 1948, Prince Edward County school closing, University of Mississippi integration, and voting rights. With these is a tape of one of Byrd's last speeches. Correspondents include Watkins M. Abbitt, Harvey B. Apperson, Wilber M. Brucker, Robert Y. Button, John T. Connor, A. Ross Eckler, Sam Ervin, Sterling Hutcheson, Estes Kefauver, James J. Kilpatrick, John E. Moss, George C. Peery, Frederick D.G. Ribble, A. Willis Robertson, Howard Worth Smith, Thomas B. Stanley, and Strom Thurmond.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003

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James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American military officer and politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a States' rights platform supporting racial segregation. He received 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes, failing to defeat Harry Truman. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern De...

Connor, John T. (John Thomas), 1914-2000

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John T. Connor (1914-2000) was an American attorney and United States Secretary of Commerce from 1965-1967. From the guide to the John T. Connor Papers, 1964-1966, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) John Thomas Connor (b. Nov. 3, 1914, Syracuse, N.Y.-d. Oct. 6, 2000, Boston, Mass.) served as Secretary of Commerce in from 1965 to 1967. From the description of Connor, John T. (John Thomas), 1914-2000 (U.S. National Archives and Rec...

Ribble, F. D. G. (Frederick Deane Goodwin), 1898-1970

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Born in Virginia. B.A., 1916, College of William and Mary; M.S., 1917, and LL.B., 1921, University of Virginia; S.J.D., 1937, Columbia University. Law professor at Virginia, 1921-1966; dean, 1939-1963. From the description of Papers, 1920-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 704074162 Born in Virginia. B.A., 1916, College of William and Mary; M.S., 1917, and LL. B., 1921, University of Virginia; S.J.D., 1937, Columbia University. Law profe...

Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 1920-2010

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Editor of Richmond News Leader, television commentator, author, syndicated newspaper columnist. From the description of Papers of James J. Kilpatrick, 1972-1997. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53046447 Newspaper editor, author, political commentator. From the description of A conservative view [manuscript], 1986-1987. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823272 From the description of A conservative view, 1966 January to Septem...

Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Estes Kefauver : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419842 Estes Kefauver was a long-time senator from Tennessee and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for president. From the description of Personal papers, 1934-1939 (University of Tennessee). WorldCat record id: 44918282 Carey Estes Kefauver (b. July 26, 1903, Monroe Count...

Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson), 1890-1970

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Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Maritn Dalton. he received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary as well as his law degree. Dalton was Commonwealth's Attorney for Radford, Virginia and state senator from 1944-1960. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor in 1953 and 1957. Dalton was appointed federal judge for the Western District of Virginia. His adopted son was John N. Dalton who served as governor of...

Wall, J. B. (Joseph Barrye), 1927-

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States' Rights Democratic Party

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Smith, Howard Worth, 1883-1976

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Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk, Virginia. He completed public school and attended the college of William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Ric...

Hutcheson, Sterling, 1894-1969.

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Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966

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Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Maritn Dalton. he received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary as well as his law degree. Dalton was Commonwealth's Attorney for Radford, Virginia and state senator from 1944-1960. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor in 1953 and 1957. Dalton was appointed federal judge for the Western District of Virginia. His adopted son was John N. Dalton who served as governor of...

Button, Robert Y. (Robert Young), 1899-1977

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University of Mississippi

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Ervin, Sam J. (Sam James), 1896-1985

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Ervin was a North Carolina member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. From the description of TLS, 1968 October 8, Washington, D.C. to Bishop Earl G. Hunt / Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 43052717 Samuel James Ervin, Jr., was a Burke County, N.C., attorney, North Carolina legislator, judge, U.S. senator, and long-time champion of civil liberties. Ervin was first appointed to the N.C. General Assembly in 1923, where he also served in 1925 an...

Peery, George C. (George Campbell), 1873-1952

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Born in Cedar Bluff, Tazewell County, Virginia on 28 October 1873. Graduate of Emory and Henry College (1894); Washington and Lee University law school (1897); member of U.S. House of Representatives (1923-1929); governor of Virginia (1934-1938). Died in Richlands, Virginia on 14 October 1952. Buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Tazewell County, Virginia. From the description of Papers, 1899-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122465170 ...

Eckler, Albert Ross, 1901-

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Abbitt, Watkins Moorman, 1908-1998

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Congressman from Virginia. Born in Appomatox County, Virginia in 1908. Received his Law Degree from the University of Richmond, in 1931. Served for 16 years as Commonwealth Attorney for Appomatox County. Served as presidential elector for the 4th district of Virginia in 1944, and was a delegate to the 1945 State Constitutional Convention. Elected to the House of Representatives from 1948-1973, representing the 4th District of Virginia. State Chairman of the Virginia Demo...

Apperson, Harvey Black, 1890-1948

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Brucker, Wilber Marion, 1894-1968

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Prosecuting attorney of Saginaw County, Michigan, attorney general of Michigan, 1929-1931, governor, 1931-1932, general counsel to the Department of Defense during the Army-McCarthy Hearing, 1954-1955, and Secretary of the Army, 1955-1961. From the description of Wilber M. Brucker papers, 1877-1968. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421623 Wilber Marion Brucker, government official and governor, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, June 23, 1894, the son...

Moss, John E. (John Emerson), 1913-

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Robertson, A. Willis (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971

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U.S. Senator from Virginia. From the description of Letter to Dr. Harry J. Warthen, Jr., 1956 January 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959530 Robertson was a senator from Virginia (1946-1966). His son, Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, is an alumnus of Washington and Lee University, Class of 1950 and a well-known minister and televangelist in Virginia. From the description of Family photographs, ca. 1930-1940. (Washington & Lee University). Wor...