Governors -- Vermont
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
John Eliakim Weeks Papers
Collection
Identifier: mss-025
Abstract
Collection includes chiefly letters by Weeks to Catherine Marion Wood Kelley on such topics as Weeks’ activities in politics, the 1927 flood, and personal concerns.
Lee E. Emerson Papers
Collection
Identifier: mss-101
Overview
Emerson was elected as a Republican to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1939, the Vermont State Senate in 1943, served two terms as lieutenant governor, 1945-47, before he was elected governor in 1951-53 and 1953-55. The collection covers the years 1941-(1951-1955)-1962.
Stanley Calef Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: mss-012
Abstract
Stanley Calef Wilson was a lawyer in Vermont and Governor, 1931-1935. Collection includes correspondence, diary (1918), speeches, school essays, desk calendars, campaign material, printed matter, and newspaper clippings. Includes folders on the Vermont Copper Company (1942-57), of which Wilson was secretary, and the Vermont "Little Hoover" Commission to study state Government (1957), and material on banking, farming, insurance, politics, religion, and road building.
William H. Wills Papers
Collection
Identifier: mss-017
Abstract
William H. Wills was the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont between 1937 and 1941, then Governor between 1941-1945. Collection includes primarily notes for text of Wills' speeches while Governor, together with a few letters, scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Wills' support for Wendell Wilkie in the 1944 Presidential campaign, notebook of materials of Vermont state war committees (1942-44), family photos, and other papers. Speeches relate to World War II as well as Vermont's domestic issues in...