Papers of Everett R. Combs [manuscript], 1920-1960.

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Papers of Everett R. Combs [manuscript], 1920-1960.

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Additional papers of Everett R. Combs consist of correspondence, photographs, newsclippings, scrapbooks, financial papers, a ledger, memorabilia and oil portraits of Combs and his wife. Political papers include a "Declaration of Policy" by the Democratic Party of Virginia, 1948 July 2, containing a reiteration of the principles of states rights and brief statements against proposed federal legislation. Specific topics include anti-lynching legislation, anti-poll tax legislation, fair employment practice legislation, segregation, balanced budget and fiscal conservatism, the United Nations and reciprocal trade agreements, federal grants-in-aid, and labor relations, together with a resolution to secure Dwight Eisenhower as Democratic candidate for president. Additional political papers include a list of members of the 1956 constitutional convention and the Senate Joint Resolution interposing the sovereignty of Virginia against the Supreme Court of the United States in the field of public education. Memorabilia in the collection chiefly pertains to the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission visit to Europe, 1956. The collection also contains scattered financial papers of Combs; a genealogy of the Combs family; photographs of Combs, his political associates and family; and his will. Correspondents include Harry F. Byrd, Sr., E. Griffith Dodson, and J. Lindsay Almond. Most are friendly notes although a few letters from Byrd discuss a minor patronage issue in Bland County.

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