Government, Law and Politics
Subject
Subject Source: Localbroad
Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:
Presidential political campaign ephemera, 2012
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3703
Overview
Bumper stickers and pins from the Obama/Biden and Romney/Ryan presidential campaigns for 2012.
Dates:
2012
Rare vertical file
Collection
Identifier: PM-013
Overview
Contains a variety of rare, published materials. Most notable are the almanacs, biographies, guidebooks, art catalogs, and works of literature.
Dates:
circa 1750-2000
Reporters for the Supreme Court of Alabama: typescript, after 1921
File — Box WSC001, Folder: W0129.11
Scope and Contents
In this twenty-six typescript of his article for an unnamed publication, William H. Brantley gives a brief sketch of each of the Reporters for the Alabama Supreme Court. In his opening paragraph, he calls these men the "unsung and unheralded, but not unappreciated, scholarly and trustworthy men who have prepared the opinions and judgements of the Supreme Court of Alabama for the printers and still had left enough patience to correct the galley, supervise the binding, and finally deliver the...
Dates:
after 1921
Republican Party Letters of Recommendation
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3895
Overview
Two unsigned letters providing reasons why L. J. Bryan and Attorney Reese should not be given federal appointments
Dates:
circa 1905
Charles H. Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3060
Overview
Letters written to Charles H. Scott and others concerning Republican party politics in Alabama.
Dates:
1889-1906
James H. Shaw Correspondence with George Wallace
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4071
Overview
Letter to and one from former governor George C. Wallace
Dates:
1991-1998
John Gill Shorter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1267
Overview
Copies of official papers, including correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous materials, including approximately thirty items concerning the University of Alabama and the Alabama Corps of Cadets during the Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1872
Captain Slick collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0274
Overview
Numerous legal papers pertaining to the slander case of John Berry versus James Latham, in Jackson and Madison Counties, Alabama, 1830-34, and that of Alanson Huff versus Cowart et al., Madison County, 1831-1833. These appear to have been collected by James W. Bragg for a paper delivered to the Alabama Historical Association in 1957. A photocopy of Bragg's paper, "Captain Slick, Arbiter of Early Alabama Morals," and another by Jack K. Williams, "Crime and Punishment in Alabama, 1819-1940" are...
Dates:
1830-1834
James Q. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1290
Overview
Contains a certificate from the Marion Military Institute, 1898, letters of correspondence 1892 -1939, financial receipts, newspaper clippings, telegrams 1918, legal documents from his election time period as Attorney General of Alabama 1918-1930, personal papers, notes and remarks as his time as judge 1930-1940's.
Dates:
unknown
Robert H. Smith legal notebook
Collection
Identifier: W-0016
Overview
Handwritten definitions and summaries of legal cases tried between 1869 and 1877, relating primarily to railroad interests and personal property law.
Dates:
circa 1870
Southern Poverty Law Center scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3596
Overview
Newsletters, magazines, and newspapers related to civil rights, the KKK, and the Neo-Confederate movement.
Dates:
circa 1980s
Donald W. Stewart papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1349
Overview
Contains the papers of state congressman.
Dates:
circa 1975 - 1990
Letters from U.S. Senators regarding the "Telepost Bill" of 1910
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3730
Overview
Letters from three U.S. Senators from Alabama to constituents in 1910 regarding the "Telepost Bill" before the 61st Congress.
Dates:
1910
Daniel Thomas papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1398
Overview
Contains the records of Judge Daniel Thomas, including the Birdie Davis vs. School Board, Mobile, Alabama records, which was one of his most important civil rights cases based on desegregation, as well as other case records, certificates, and other notes.
Dates:
1940-1960
To the People of Alabama: anti-secession document signed by Robert Jemison Jr. and thirty-two other members of Alabama's 1861 secession convention
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3788
Overview
Document to the people of Alabama from thirty-three men at the 1861 secession convention explaining why they did not sign the Ordinance of Secession
Dates:
1861
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
United States President, Cabinet, and House of Representatives, 34th Congress, Autograph Book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0356
Overview
Book containing the autographs of President Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) and his Cabinet, as well as those of virtually all members of the United States House of Representatives during the 34th Congress (3 December 1855 - 4 March 1857). The book also has the autograph of Confederate General Edmund W. Pettus, written in 1903 while he was a U.S. Senator.
Dates:
1855-1903
Judge Horace C. Wilkerson Speech
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2648
Overview
Copy of typed script of speech given by Judge Horace C. Wilkerson to the Optimist Club (sponsored by Mobile Real Estate Association) on September 17, 1953.
Dates:
1953