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Alexander S. Clay Papers
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Clay, Alexander Stephens, 1853-1910. |
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1900-1951 |
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The Alexander S. Clay Papers is one of the earliest collections of Congressional papers held by the Russell Library and documents
the beginnings of modern, federal policy-making in the twentieth century. The collection consists of correspondence between
Senator Clay and his constituents, government officials and public servants, members of his family, and others between 1900
and 1914. Most of the letters are incoming correspondence. Topics discussed in the correspondence include the appointment
of postmasters and other civil servants, nominations for students seeking admission to the United States Military Academy
(West Point) and Naval Academy (Annapolis), tariffs and international trade legislation, the opening of the Panama Canal,
U.S. Supreme Court cases and justice appointments, women's suffrage, Prohibition, Georgia gubernatorial elections, the 1908
presidential election, expansion of rural postal delivery service, relations between the United States and the Philippines,
and the 1910 federal census. Also included in the collection are letters received after Clay's death, a photograph, postage
stamps, and U.S. Army records from the 31st Regiment of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry (which Clay's son, Frank Butner Clay,
served in as a captain) that were collected by the Clay family.
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RBRL435 |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection: Collection Summary
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Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971 |
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1840-1978 |
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Richard B. Russell Jr. served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator (1920-1931), governor of Georgia (1931-1932),
and U.S. Senator (1933-1971). Best known for his opposition to civil rights legislation, Russell also focused on national
defense, agriculture, soil and water conservation, and economic growth in Georgia. Russell's papers document the entirety
of his career, with the vast majority of the materials focusing on his terms in the U.S. Senate. The records include constituent
correspondence and other correspondence files, speeches and media files, legislative files, files on civil rights, and published
materials.
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RBRL001RBR |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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John Brown Gordon family papers
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Haralson, Hugh Anderson, 1805-1854 |
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circa 1841-1979 |
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The collection consists of papers of John Brown Gordon and the Gordon family from ca. 1841-1979. Papers relating to John
Brown Gordon include correspondence, writings, photographs, and scrapbooks. The correspondence (1861-1930) consists of letters
written to his wife, Fanny Haralson Gordon, mainly while Gordon was serving in the Confederate Army in the states of Virginia,
Pennsylvania, and Maryland; letters (1864-1870) from Robert E. Lee; and correspondence to and from his family while he was
serving as a United States Senator in Washington. Other Gordon family members represented in the papers include Hugh Haralson
Gordon, Caroline Lewis Gordon, and Lewis Gordon. The collection contains an interesting set of letters (1941-1948) to and
from Rev. John Dawson Gordon, whose parents were enslaved by, and later, servants of the Gordon family from 1854 until they
moved to California in the 1890s.
The collection also contains papers relating to the Haralson family, consisting mainly of correspondence (1841-1851) between
Hugh A. Haralson, while serving in the U.S. Congress, and his wife, Caroline Lewis Haralson, and their daughters Elizabeth,
Fanny, and Caroline. Mrs. Haralson's letters to her husband provide an indepth look at her management of their plantation
in LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia, while her husband was away from home. The collection also contains genealogical materials
relating to the Gordon, Haralson, Hodgson, Howard, and Lewis families.
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ms1637 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Rebecca Latimer Felton papers
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Felton, William H. (William Harrell), 1823-1909 |
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1851-1930 |
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The collection consists of the papers of Rebecca Latimer Felton, from 1851 to 1930. The papers include correspondence, speeches,
articles, and scrapbooks; all reflecting her lengthy public career as author, newspaper columnist, lecturer, as she actively
pursued her interests in politics, religious issues, penal and temperance reform and women's political rights. The papers
reflect her involvement in the World's Columbian Exposition (1890-1894), the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta (1895), and
as a delegate to the Progressive Republican Convention in Chicago (1912). Correspondents include readers of her articles and
letters and those involved in Exposition matters. Other correspondents include General John B. Gordon, Alexander Hamilton
Stephens, James Longstreet, William H. Hidell, Bertha Honore Palmer, Lafayette McLaws, Florence Williams Olmstead, President
Rutherford B. Hayes, Georgia Governors A. H. Colquitt, Joseph Emerson Brown and William Yates Atkinson and family members,
husband William H. Felton, son Howard Erwin Felton, and Charles and Eleanor Swift Latimer.
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ms81 |
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Hargrett Library |
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