Elections -- Mississippi.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Lena Bell Clayton Anderson scrapbook
Collection — Box 1, item: 1
Identifier: MPC-153
Scope and Content
The collection contains a historical and political scrapbook with political notes for Governor James K. Vardaman, Senator Leroy Percy, Governor Theodore G. Bilbo, Senator James Gordon, and other political figures. Subjects include state supreme court decisions, state and national senatorial elections, politics related to WWI, Mississippi political spats, state politics, the trial of Senator Hobbs, political corruption, political demagoguery, the Spanish-American War fund, and, poet James...
Dates:
1910 - 1917; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1914
Patricia Derian Papers
Collection
Identifier: MPC-130
Scope and Contents
The Patricia Derian papers contain primarily records of Derian’s activities from 1964 to 1976; the two largest groups document MAP and the Democratic Party. Among the types of materials included are correspondence, minutes, logs, reports, publications, legal materials, scrapbooks, artifacts and audio tapes.The first group of records is the Mississippi Action for Progress (MAP) series. It consists of materials relating to Derian’s tenure as the OEO oversight person within MAP and...
Dates:
1964 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1973
Joe E. Frazer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-199
Scope and Contents
Collection of Joe Frazer, President of the Board of Supervisors, Madison County, Mississippi, first President of the Mississippi Association of Supervisors and President of the Natchez Trace Association. Includes materials concerning negotiations for a proposed tri-county park area as a land utilization project on eroded agricultural lands at the Attala, Leake and Madison County corners area (1935, 1939). 1941 letters concern the cotton allotment and the Mississippi Civilian Defense Plan...
Dates:
1926-1930, 1932-1955, undated
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Joe E. Frazer Collection
Gardner (James H.) Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-38
Scope and Content Note
The James H. Gardner Collection contains business records from various Mississippians. Masonic Letters from the New Hope Lodge. Personal correspondences between several Gardners’. As well as a Civil War letter and a miscellaneous collection of papers, prescriptions, political advertisements and election materials-hand bills. The content is in the form of paper and Photostat.
Dates:
1846 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1890
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Gardner (James H.) Collection
Godwin Advertising Agency collection
Collection
Identifier: MPC-096
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided into 20 series, arranged both chronologically and by format type. The content concerns the advertising campaigns run by the Godwin Advertising Agency on behalf of the States’ Rights Democratic Party and a number of state and local politicians in Mississippi between 1948 and 1971, as well as a large group of photographs taken for the Agricultural and Industrial Board to promote the state between 1947 and 1955. The material gives insights into the role of advertising...
Dates:
1940 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1971
George Lawson Sheldon papers
Collection
Identifier: CPRC-026
Scope and Content
The George Lawson Sheldon Collection features a variety of materials that Sheldon accumulated during his political career. Eight cubic feet of material makes up the collection. The collection has numerous copies of newspaper articles about Sheldon’s various political interests. Sheldon saved most of his political and party correspondence, and the collection houses the letters. Other letters and greeting cards constitute Sheldon’s correspondence with family and friends. A fair amount of...
Dates:
1922 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1960