Papers of Landon Russell Wyatt [manuscript], 1935-1970.

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Papers of Landon Russell Wyatt [manuscript], 1935-1970.

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The collection consists of Sen. Wyatt's office files which were divided into topical and election correspondence. The majority are from the 1950s and 1960s, but some material dates from the 1930s. In addition to correspondence, copies of Wyatt's speeches, and printed material about the Virginia budget, the Gray commission on public schools, and the Commission on Tobacco Tax, are present. There are also papers from Wyatt's non-political career which included serving as chairman of the board of trustees for Averett College, Danville, Va., director of Dan River Mills, Inc., Danville, Va., and president of the Danville, Va. Fair Association. Among the correspondents are Watkins M. Abbitt, John S. Battle, Harry F. Byrd, Sr., Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Mills E. Godwin, T. Marshall Hahn, Albertis S. Harrison, A. Willis Robertson, William B. Spong, William M. Tuck, and George C. Wallace.

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

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Dan River Mills, Inc

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Hahn, T. Marshall (Thomas Marshall), 1926-

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