{"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+--+Politics+and+government","last":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Virginia+--+Politics+and+government\u0026page=1"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":7,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"vihi_vih00002","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988","creator":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00002#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n         Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988.","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00002#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on various government commissions, and other related political activities and interests. Commissions on which he served include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission, the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. 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His General Assembly papers are\n         organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n         recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n         begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n         These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n         (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n         invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n         television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n         advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n         budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n         congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n         Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n         of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n         year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n         from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n         applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n         appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n         specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n         several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n         the collection.","Richmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n         Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n         Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n         reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n         government commissions, and other related political activities\n         and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n         also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n         1967.","Bemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n         school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n         the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n         conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n         the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n         contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n         on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n         opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n         Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise.","The collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n         election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n         addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n         session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n         the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n         from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n         document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n         forces.","The 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n         the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n         asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n         decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n         is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n         voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n         expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n         Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n         associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n         questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n         in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n         followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n         series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n         Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n         copies of resolutions from other states.","In 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n         Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n         Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n         of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n         by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n         their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n         concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n         concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n         correspondence and election materials follow. General\n         correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n         concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n         Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n         folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n         Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n         1959.","In January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n         declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n         assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n         with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n         which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n         served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n         commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n         hearing on March 6 of that year.","Bemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n         again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n         described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n         correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n         advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n         containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n         follow.","The extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n         amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n         presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n         constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n         Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n         1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n         front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n         1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n         addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n         decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n         rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n         as previously described.","In 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n         the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n         family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n         not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n         editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n         Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n         actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.","The next section of the collection pertains to various\n         election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n         gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n         papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n         precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n         however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n         larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n         primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n         in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n         Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n         health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n         Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n         Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n         Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n         Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n         nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n         analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n         Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n         redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n         appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.","The rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n         chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n         Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n         These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n         government commission, civic organizations, and community\n         affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n         activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n         after his 1967 retirement.","Records pertaining to government begin with several folders\n         of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n         in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n         Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n         standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n         departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n         conference on aging and conference information as well as\n         Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n         through social security, are included in this material.","Addresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n         State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n         Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n         purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n         Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n         the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n         barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n         other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n         Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n         legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n         of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n         whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n         marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n         introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n         common practice.","Correspondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n         concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n         staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n         planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n         oversee long-range planning.","In 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n         the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n         chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n         Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n         Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n         subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n         county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n         establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n         annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n         area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n         the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n         autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n         well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n         concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n         Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n         Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n         interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n         the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n         material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n         and a program.","The section concerning education begins with a folder of\n         general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n         invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n         labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n         a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n         was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n         education in the state. This material, which includes\n         correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n         of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n         \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n         Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n         William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n         Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n         services and facilities.","Correspondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n         materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n         chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n         Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n         the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n         curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n         pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n         establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n         education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n         education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n         Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n         documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n         Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n         pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n         concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n         research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n         the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n         Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n         public education during the school busing controversy in\n         1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n         and clippings on education.","The remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n         conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n         records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n         Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n         Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n         Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n         material concerns water pollution and parks.","Bemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n         Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n         protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n         resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n         assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n         acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n         other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n         Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n         Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n         correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n         clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n         the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n         Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n         attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n         change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n         concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n         Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n         owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n         development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n         also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n         private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n         state.","Bemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n         Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n         determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n         resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n         consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n         state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n         a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n         governor's acknowledgment.","Information and brochures concerning several state parks\n         begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n         Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n         for Virginia Wildlife magazine.","The following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n         in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n         the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n         Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n         concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n         areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n         correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n         pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n         River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n         of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n         president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n         usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n         of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n         the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n         natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n         was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n         and restored and James River Park was established.","In 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n         on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n         William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n         needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n         century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n         summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n         pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n         Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n         topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n         report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n         the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n         papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.","In conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n         Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n         Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n         the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n         the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n         concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n         environmental issues conclude this section.","Miscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n         dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n         folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n         fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.","FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n         his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n         various government commissions, and other related political\n         activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n         include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n         Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n         the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n         overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n         particular interest included educational and environmental\n         issues.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"collection_ssim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B4252 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B4252 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n         Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988."],"creator_ssim":["Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n         Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["Ca. 2,750 items (6 archival\n         boxes)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAs much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n         papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n         organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n         recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n         begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n         These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n         (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n         invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n         television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n         advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n         budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n         congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n         Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n         of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n         year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n         from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n         applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n         appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n         specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n         several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n         the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["As much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n         papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n         organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n         recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n         begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n         These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n         (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n         invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n         television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n         advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n         budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n         congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n         Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n         of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n         year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n         from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n         applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n         appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n         specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n         several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n         the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRichmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n         Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n         Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n         reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n         government commissions, and other related political activities\n         and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n         also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n         1967.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n         school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n         the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n         conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n         the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n         contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n         on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n         opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n         Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Richmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n         Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n         Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n         reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n         government commissions, and other related political activities\n         and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n         also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n         1967.","Bemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n         school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n         the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n         conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n         the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n         contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n         on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n         opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n         Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n         election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n         addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n         session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n         the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n         from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n         document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n         forces.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n         the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n         asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n         decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n         is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n         voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n         expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n         Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n         associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n         questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n         in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n         followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n         series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n         Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n         copies of resolutions from other states.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n         Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n         Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n         of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n         by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n         their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n         concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n         concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n         correspondence and election materials follow. General\n         correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n         concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n         Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n         folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n         Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n         1959.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n         declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n         assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n         with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n         which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n         served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n         commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n         hearing on March 6 of that year.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n         again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n         described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n         correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n         advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n         containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n         follow.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n         amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n         presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n         constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n         Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n         1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n         front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n         1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n         addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n         decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n         rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n         as previously described.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n         the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n         family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n         not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n         editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n         Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n         actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe next section of the collection pertains to various\n         election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n         gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n         papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n         precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n         however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n         larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n         primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n         in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n         Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n         health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n         Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n         Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n         Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n         Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n         nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n         analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n         Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n         redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n         appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n         chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n         Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n         These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n         government commission, civic organizations, and community\n         affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n         activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n         after his 1967 retirement.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eRecords pertaining to government begin with several folders\n         of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n         in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n         Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n         standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n         departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n         conference on aging and conference information as well as\n         Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n         through social security, are included in this material.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAddresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n         State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n         Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n         purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n         Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n         the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n         barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n         other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n         Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n         legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n         of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n         whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n         marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n         introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n         common practice.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n         concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n         staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n         planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n         oversee long-range planning.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n         the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n         chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n         Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n         Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n         subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n         county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n         establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n         annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n         area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n         the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n         autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n         well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n         concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n         Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n         Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n         interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n         the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n         material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n         and a program.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe section concerning education begins with a folder of\n         general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n         invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n         labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n         a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n         was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n         education in the state. This material, which includes\n         correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n         of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n         \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n         Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n         William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n         Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n         services and facilities.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n         materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n         chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n         Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n         the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n         curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n         pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n         establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n         education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n         education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n         Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n         documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n         Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n         pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n         concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n         research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n         the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n         Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n         public education during the school busing controversy in\n         1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n         and clippings on education.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n         conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n         records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n         Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n         Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n         Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n         material concerns water pollution and parks.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n         Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n         protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n         resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n         assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n         acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n         other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n         Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n         Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n         correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n         clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n         the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n         Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n         attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n         change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n         concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n         Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n         owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n         development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n         also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n         private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n         state.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n         Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n         determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n         resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n         consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n         state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n         a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n         governor's acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eInformation and brochures concerning several state parks\n         begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n         Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n         for Virginia Wildlife magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n         in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n         the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n         Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n         concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n         areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n         correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n         pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n         River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n         of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n         president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n         usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n         of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n         the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n         natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n         was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n         and restored and James River Park was established.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n         on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n         William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n         needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n         century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n         summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n         pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n         Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n         topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n         report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n         the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n         papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n         Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n         Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n         the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n         the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n         concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n         environmental issues conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n         dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n         folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n         fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n         election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n         addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n         session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n         the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n         from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n         document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n         forces.","The 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n         the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n         asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n         decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n         is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n         voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n         expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n         Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n         associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n         questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n         in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n         followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n         series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n         Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n         copies of resolutions from other states.","In 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n         Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n         Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n         of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n         by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n         their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n         concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n         concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n         correspondence and election materials follow. General\n         correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n         concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n         Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n         folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n         Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n         1959.","In January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n         declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n         assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n         with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n         which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n         served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n         commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n         hearing on March 6 of that year.","Bemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n         again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n         described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n         correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n         advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n         containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n         follow.","The extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n         amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n         presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n         constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n         Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n         1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n         front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n         1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n         addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n         decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n         rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n         as previously described.","In 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n         the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n         family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n         not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n         editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n         Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n         actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.","The next section of the collection pertains to various\n         election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n         gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n         papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n         precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n         however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n         larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n         primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n         in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n         Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n         health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n         Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n         Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n         Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n         Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n         nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n         analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n         Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n         redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n         appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.","The rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n         chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n         Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n         These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n         government commission, civic organizations, and community\n         affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n         activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n         after his 1967 retirement.","Records pertaining to government begin with several folders\n         of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n         in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n         Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n         standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n         departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n         conference on aging and conference information as well as\n         Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n         through social security, are included in this material.","Addresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n         State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n         Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n         purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n         Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n         the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n         barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n         other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n         Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n         legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n         of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n         whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n         marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n         introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n         common practice.","Correspondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n         concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n         staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n         planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n         oversee long-range planning.","In 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n         the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n         chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n         Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n         Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n         subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n         county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n         establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n         annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n         area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n         the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n         autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n         well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n         concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n         Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n         Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n         interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n         the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n         material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n         and a program.","The section concerning education begins with a folder of\n         general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n         invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n         labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n         a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n         was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n         education in the state. This material, which includes\n         correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n         of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n         \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n         Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n         William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n         Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n         services and facilities.","Correspondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n         materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n         chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n         Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n         the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n         curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n         pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n         establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n         education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n         education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n         Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n         documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n         Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n         pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n         concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n         research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n         the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n         Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n         public education during the school busing controversy in\n         1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n         and clippings on education.","The remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n         conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n         records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n         Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n         Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n         Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n         material concerns water pollution and parks.","Bemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n         Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n         protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n         resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n         assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n         acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n         other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n         Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n         Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n         correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n         clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n         the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n         Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n         attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n         change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n         concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n         Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n         owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n         development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n         also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n         private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n         state.","Bemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n         Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n         determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n         resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n         consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n         state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n         a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n         governor's acknowledgment.","Information and brochures concerning several state parks\n         begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n         Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n         for Virginia Wildlife magazine.","The following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n         in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n         the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n         Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n         concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n         areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n         correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n         pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n         River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n         of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n         president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n         usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n         of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n         the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n         natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n         was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n         and restored and James River Park was established.","In 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n         on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n         William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n         needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n         century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n         summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n         pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n         Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n         topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n         report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n         the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n         papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.","In conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n         Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n         Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n         the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n         the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n         concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n         environmental issues conclude this section.","Miscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n         dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n         folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n         fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eFitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n         his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n         various government commissions, and other related political\n         activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n         include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n         Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n         the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n         overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n         particular interest included educational and environmental\n         issues.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n      "],"abstract_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n         his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n         various government commissions, and other related political\n         activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n         include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n         Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n         the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n         overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n         particular interest included educational and environmental\n         issues."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":77,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:22:56.531Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00002","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00002","_root_":"vihi_vih00002","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00002","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00002.xml","title_ssm":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"title_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"normalized_title_ssm":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"text":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988","Mss1 B4252 a FA2","Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government","Ca. 2,750 items (6 archival\n         boxes).","As much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n         papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n         organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n         recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n         begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n         These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n         (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n         invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n         television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n         advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n         budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n         congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n         Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n         of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n         year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n         from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n         applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n         appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n         specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n         several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n         the collection.","Richmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n         Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n         Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n         reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n         government commissions, and other related political activities\n         and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n         also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n         1967.","Bemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n         school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n         the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n         conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n         the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n         contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n         on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n         opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n         Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise.","The collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n         election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n         addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n         session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n         the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n         from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n         document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n         forces.","The 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n         the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n         asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n         decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n         is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n         voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n         expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n         Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n         associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n         questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n         in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n         followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n         series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n         Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n         copies of resolutions from other states.","In 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n         Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n         Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n         of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n         by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n         their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n         concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n         concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n         correspondence and election materials follow. General\n         correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n         concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n         Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n         folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n         Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n         1959.","In January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n         declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n         assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n         with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n         which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n         served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n         commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n         hearing on March 6 of that year.","Bemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n         again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n         described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n         correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n         advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n         containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n         follow.","The extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n         amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n         presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n         constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n         Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n         1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n         front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n         1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n         addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n         decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n         rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n         as previously described.","In 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n         the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n         family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n         not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n         editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n         Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n         actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.","The next section of the collection pertains to various\n         election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n         gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n         papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n         precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n         however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n         larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n         primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n         in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n         Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n         health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n         Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n         Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n         Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n         Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n         nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n         analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n         Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n         redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n         appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.","The rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n         chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n         Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n         These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n         government commission, civic organizations, and community\n         affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n         activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n         after his 1967 retirement.","Records pertaining to government begin with several folders\n         of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n         in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n         Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n         standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n         departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n         conference on aging and conference information as well as\n         Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n         through social security, are included in this material.","Addresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n         State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n         Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n         purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n         Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n         the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n         barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n         other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n         Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n         legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n         of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n         whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n         marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n         introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n         common practice.","Correspondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n         concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n         staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n         planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n         oversee long-range planning.","In 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n         the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n         chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n         Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n         Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n         subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n         county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n         establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n         annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n         area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n         the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n         autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n         well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n         concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n         Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n         Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n         interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n         the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n         material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n         and a program.","The section concerning education begins with a folder of\n         general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n         invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n         labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n         a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n         was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n         education in the state. This material, which includes\n         correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n         of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n         \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n         Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n         William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n         Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n         services and facilities.","Correspondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n         materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n         chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n         Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n         the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n         curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n         pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n         establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n         education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n         education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n         Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n         documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n         Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n         pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n         concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n         research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n         the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n         Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n         public education during the school busing controversy in\n         1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n         and clippings on education.","The remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n         conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n         records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n         Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n         Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n         Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n         material concerns water pollution and parks.","Bemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n         Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n         protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n         resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n         assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n         acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n         other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n         Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n         Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n         correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n         clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n         the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n         Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n         attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n         change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n         concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n         Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n         owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n         development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n         also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n         private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n         state.","Bemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n         Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n         determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n         resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n         consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n         state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n         a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n         governor's acknowledgment.","Information and brochures concerning several state parks\n         begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n         Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n         for Virginia Wildlife magazine.","The following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n         in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n         the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n         Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n         concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n         areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n         correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n         pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n         River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n         of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n         president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n         usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n         of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n         the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n         natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n         was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n         and restored and James River Park was established.","In 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n         on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n         William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n         needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n         century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n         summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n         pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n         Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n         topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n         report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n         the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n         papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.","In conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n         Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n         Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n         the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n         the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n         concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n         environmental issues conclude this section.","Miscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n         dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n         folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n         fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.","FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n         his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n         various government commissions, and other related political\n         activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n         include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n         Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n         the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n         overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n         particular interest included educational and environmental\n         issues.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"collection_ssim":["FitzGerald Bemiss Papers \n \n 1952-1988"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 B4252 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 B4252 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"creator_ssm":["Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n         Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988."],"creator_ssim":["Gift of FitzGerald Bemiss,\n         Richmond, Va., September 14, 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Bemiss, FitzGerald, 1922-","Outdoor recreation -- Law and legislation","Segregation in education","Virginia -- Politics and government"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["Ca. 2,750 items (6 archival\n         boxes)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAs much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n         papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n         organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n         recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n         begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n         These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n         (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n         invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n         television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n         advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n         budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n         congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n         Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n         of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n         year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n         from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n         applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n         appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n         specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n         several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n         the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Organization"],"arrangement_tesim":["As much as possible, the original arrangement of Bemiss's\n         papers has been maintained. His General Assembly papers are\n         organized by session, with the same basic arrangement\n         recurring for each session. Each session's records usually\n         begin with materials pertaining to the biennial elections.\n         These consist of individual folders of campaign correspondence\n         (appeals for and acknowledgments of support, petitions,\n         invitations to speak), addresses (including radio and\n         television spots), campaign materials (such as examples of\n         advertising, sample ballots, literature, platform drafts,\n         budget information, voting lists, and clippings), letters of\n         congratulation (often including letters from Harry F. Byrd, J.\n         Vaughan Gary, and various Virginia governors), and statements\n         of expense. Folders containing general correspondence for that\n         year follow. These typically include miscellaneous letters\n         from constituents, appeals for support and endorsement,\n         applications for appointment, invitations, and letters of\n         appreciation. Researchers should note that papers relating to\n         specific commissions or legislative actions that overlap\n         several sessions are arranged by subject and appear later in\n         the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRichmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n         Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n         Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n         reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n         government commissions, and other related political activities\n         and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n         also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n         1967.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n         school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n         the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n         conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n         the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n         contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n         on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n         opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n         Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Richmond FitzGerald Bemiss (b. 1922) was a member of the\n         Virginia General Assembly, serving in both the House of\n         Delegates (1955-1959) and the Senate (1960-1967). His papers\n         reflect his career in the Assembly, his work on various\n         government commissions, and other related political activities\n         and interests. Researchers interested in these subjects may\n         also want to look at his book, The General Assembly: 1955-\n         1967.","Bemiss entered the House of Delegates at the height of the\n         school desegregation crisis and served in that body through\n         the extra session of 1959. Although often voting with the\n         conservative majority, Bemiss was nonetheless independent of\n         the dominant Byrd organization and often took positions\n         contrary to the Byrd line. As a member of the Gray commission\n         on Public Education, Bemiss supported \"local option,\" was\n         opposed to massive resistance, and approved of Lindsay\n         Almond's \"freedom of choice\" compromise."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n         election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n         addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n         session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n         the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n         from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n         document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n         forces.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n         the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n         asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n         decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n         is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n         voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n         expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n         Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n         associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n         questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n         in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n         followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n         series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n         Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n         copies of resolutions from other states.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n         Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n         Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n         of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n         by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n         their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n         concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n         concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n         correspondence and election materials follow. General\n         correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n         concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n         Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n         folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n         Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n         1959.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n         declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n         assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n         with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n         which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n         served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n         commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n         hearing on March 6 of that year.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n         again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n         described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n         correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n         advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n         containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n         follow.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n         amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n         presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n         constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n         Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n         1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n         front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n         1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n         addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n         decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n         rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n         as previously described.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n         the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n         family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n         not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n         editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n         Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n         actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe next section of the collection pertains to various\n         election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n         gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n         papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n         precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n         however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n         larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n         primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n         in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n         Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n         health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n         Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n         Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n         Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n         Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n         nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n         analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n         Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n         redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n         appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n         chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n         Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n         These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n         government commission, civic organizations, and community\n         affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n         activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n         after his 1967 retirement.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eRecords pertaining to government begin with several folders\n         of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n         in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n         Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n         standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n         departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n         conference on aging and conference information as well as\n         Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n         through social security, are included in this material.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAddresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n         State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n         Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n         purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n         Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n         the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n         barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n         other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n         Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n         legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n         of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n         whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n         marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n         introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n         common practice.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n         concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n         staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n         planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n         oversee long-range planning.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n         the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n         chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n         Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n         Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n         subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n         county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n         establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n         annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n         area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n         the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n         autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n         well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n         concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n         Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n         Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n         interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n         the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n         material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n         and a program.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe section concerning education begins with a folder of\n         general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n         invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n         labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n         a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n         was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n         education in the state. This material, which includes\n         correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n         of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n         \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n         Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n         William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n         Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n         services and facilities.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n         materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n         chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n         Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n         the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n         curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n         pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n         establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n         education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n         education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n         Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n         documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n         Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n         pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n         concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n         research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n         the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n         Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n         public education during the school busing controversy in\n         1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n         and clippings on education.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n         conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n         records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n         Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n         Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n         Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n         material concerns water pollution and parks.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n         Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n         protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n         resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n         assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n         acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n         other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n         Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n         Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n         correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n         clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n         the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n         Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n         attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n         change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n         concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n         Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n         owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n         development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n         also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n         private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n         state.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n         Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n         determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n         resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n         consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n         state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n         a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n         governor's acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eInformation and brochures concerning several state parks\n         begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n         Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n         for Virginia Wildlife magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n         in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n         the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n         Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n         concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n         areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n         correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n         pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n         River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n         of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n         president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n         usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n         of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n         the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n         natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n         was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n         and restored and James River Park was established.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n         on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n         William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n         needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n         century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n         summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n         pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n         Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n         topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n         report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n         the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n         papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n         Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n         Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n         the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n         the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n         concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n         environmental issues conclude this section.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n         dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n         folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n         fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection begins with materials pertaining to the 1955\n         election, organized as described above. Correspondence,\n         addresses, statements and clippings concerning the extra\n         session of 1955 and subsequent referendum on the revision of\n         the state Constitution to allow tuition grants follow. Letters\n         from Governor Thomas B. Stanley and Dabney S. Lancaster\n         document Bemiss's efforts in organizing pro-convention\n         forces.","The 1956 session of the general assembly was noteworthy for\n         the passage of a resolution of \"Interposition.\" This doctrine\n         asserts that individual states have the power to declare a\n         decision of the Supreme Court unconstitutional until the issue\n         is settled through the amendment process. Although eventually\n         voting with the majority in support of the resolution, Bemiss\n         expressed doubts about the action in a letter to Governor\n         Stanley. A letter from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., later an\n         associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, also\n         questions the assembly's action. Both these letters are found\n         in the folder of correspondence and addresses, which is\n         followed by newspaper clippings, mostly from the editorial\n         series by James J. Kilpatrick in the Richmond News Leader.\n         Miscellaneous \"Interposition\" materials include addresses and\n         copies of resolutions from other states.","In 1956 Bemiss was appointed to fill a vacancy on the\n         Commission on Public Education, chaired by State Senator\n         Garland Gray. Materials concerning the Gray Commission consist\n         of correspondence and statements, including a joint statement\n         by Bemiss and fellow delegate J. Randolph Tucker announcing\n         their dissent from the majority report. Correspondence\n         concerning the 1956 extra session is mostly from constituents\n         concerning the proposed school closing bills. 1957 general\n         correspondence and election materials follow. General\n         correspondence includes letters from Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.,\n         concerning the settlement of a displaced Hungarian family in\n         Richmond. General correspondence for 1958 and 1959 and a\n         folder of material concerning the 1958 session of the General\n         Assembly precede material concerning the special session of\n         1959.","In January 1959 both the U. S. and state supreme courts\n         declared Virginia's school closing laws unconstitutional. The\n         assembly, meeting in extra session, replaced the legislation\n         with the Commission on Education's \"freedom of choice\" plan,\n         which provided for the possibility of some integration. Bemiss\n         served on the Perrow Commission, and his papers contain\n         commission minutes, reports, and statements from a public\n         hearing on March 6 of that year.","Bemiss ran for the State Senate in 1959. Researchers are\n         again reminded that the campaign materials are arranged as\n         described on the first page of this summary. Campaign\n         correspondence includes letters from Lewis F. Powell, who\n         advised Bemiss and helped draft statements. Two folders\n         containing budget and financial data for the 1960 session\n         follow.","The extra session of 1963 dealt with the poll tax issue and\n         amending the Virginia Constitution before the 1964\n         presidential selection. Materials include letters from\n         constituents, copies of resolutions and bills, and clippings.\n         Correspondence concerning various bills introduced during the\n         1964 session is arranged by bill, with an index located in the\n         front of the folder. Folders concerning the extra sessions of\n         1964 and 1965, both of which dealt with redistricting, include\n         addresses, population statistics, a copy of a federal court\n         decision , and a Harry Byrd, Sr., statement on the voting\n         rights act. Senate materials from 1965-1967 follow, arranged\n         as previously described.","In 1967, FitzGerald Bemiss announced his retirement from\n         the Senate, citing a need to devote more time to his\n         family-run businesses. Materials concerning his announcement\n         not to seek re-election include correspondence, clippings,\n         editorials, and a statement. Memoranda, mainly of Carter O.\n         Lowance, executive secretary to the governor, describes major\n         actions of each Assembly session from 1956 to 1968.","The next section of the collection pertains to various\n         election campaigns, presidential, senatorial, and\n         gubernatorial from 1952 to 1985. Located in box 3, these\n         papers mainly consist of campaign literature and clippings and\n         precinct returns from Richmond newspapers. In some campaigns,\n         however, Bemiss was more actively involved and generated a\n         larger number of records. In the 1966 Senate Democratic\n         primary, Bemiss worked for the incumbent, A. Willis Robertson,\n         in organizing and fund-raising in the third district.\n         Correspondence with Robertson concerns the incumbent's age and\n         health as compared with that of former Senator Carter Glass.\n         Bemiss also served as a budgetary and financial advisor for\n         Fred G. Pollard in the 1969 Democratic gubernatorial primary,\n         Harry F. Byrd in his 1970 campaign for Senate, and Richard D.\n         Obenshain in his 1978 quest for the Republican gubernatorial\n         nomination. The section concludes with a folder of election\n         analyses by Larry Sabato, a folder of Richmond City Democratic\n         Committee memoranda, correspondence, statements and 1965\n         redistricting information, a folder of Republican party\n         appeals, and a folder of miscellaneous election materials.","The rest of the collection has been arranged in roughly\n         chronological fashion around three subjects that interested\n         Senator Bemiss: government, education, and the environment.\n         These papers reflect Bemiss's service on a number of\n         government commission, civic organizations, and community\n         affairs groups. Many of these relate to general assembly\n         activities that either spanned several sessions or continued\n         after his 1967 retirement.","Records pertaining to government begin with several folders\n         of otherwise only loosely related materials. The first folder\n         in this section concerns the building of a parking lot for the\n         Virginia Museum. This is followed by papers concerning the\n         standardization of annual reports for the various executive\n         departments. In January 1961 Bemiss attended a White House\n         conference on aging and conference information as well as\n         Bemiss's statements opposing medial aid for the elderly\n         through social security, are included in this material.","Addresses concerning the findings of the Commission on\n         State and Local Revenues and Expenditures follow. Appointed by\n         Governor Albertis S. Harrison in 1962, the commission's\n         purpose was to study new and additional sources of revenue.\n         Although it was generally understood that this meant preparing\n         the way for a state sales tax by eliminating the legal\n         barriers and developing plans for distributing the proceeds,\n         other actions were also recommended. As chairman of the Local\n         Revenues and Expenditures Committee, Bemiss proposed\n         legislation prohibiting the underassessment and undertaxation\n         of real estate at the expense of public utility facilities,\n         whose burden was then passed on to other localities. A folder\n         marked \"public utilities' mostly concerns several bills\n         introduced during the 1966 session seeking to abolish this\n         common practice.","Correspondence with Richmond City Council primarily\n         concerns proposed changes in the city charter providing for\n         staggered four-year terms for the city's state senators. State\n         planning materials concern the establishment of a division to\n         oversee long-range planning.","In 1966 Bemiss was appointed by Governor Mills E. Godwin to\n         the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission. Under the\n         chairmanship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute president, T.\n         Marshall Hahn, the commission examined problems created by\n         Virginia's growing and shifting population. Bemiss's\n         subcommittee on Governmental Structure proposed redrawing\n         county boundaries to reflect twentieth-century demands, and\n         establishing service and planning districts as alternatives to\n         annexation in meeting problems created in multi-jurisdictional\n         area. These ideas were, quite naturally, opposed by many in\n         the legislature who viewed the proposal as a threat to local\n         autonomy. Commission minutes, correspondence, and reports, as\n         well as subcommittee correspondence begin box 4. Materials\n         concerning the Commission on the Legislative Process, on which\n         Bemiss also served, follow. Papers pertaining to the\n         Commission on Constitutional Revision again reflect Bemiss's\n         interest in multi-locality planning districts. Bemiss planned\n         the inauguration of Governor Linwood Holton in 1970 and this\n         material consists of memoranda, seating charts, invitations,\n         and a program.","The section concerning education begins with a folder of\n         general correspondence, consisting of constituent requests,\n         invitations to speak, and copies of addresses. Seven folders\n         labeled \"State Council of Higher Education\" follow. Bemiss was\n         a patron of the bill which created the council, whose purpose\n         was to promote and develop a coordinated system of higher\n         education in the state. This material, which includes\n         correspondence, memoranda, and reports, concerns the creation\n         of the council, its early operation, and a VALC report,\n         \"education of Scientists, Engineers and Other Specialists.\"\n         Other subjects include the separation of colleges in the\n         William and Mary System (including Richmond Professional\n         Institute) and inter-library cooperation in sharing technical\n         services and facilities.","Correspondence with the State Board of Education precedes\n         materials related to the Commission on Public Education\n         chaired by William B. Spong (not to be confused with the Gray\n         Commission). Correspondence, statements, and reports document\n         the commission's work, which involved evaluation of school\n         curricula and teacher certification requirements. Materials\n         pertaining to the Bureau of Educational Research concern the\n         establishment of a permanent agency to conduct research in\n         education. Budget materials for 1964 concern cuts in higher\n         education and include statements by Bemiss and University of\n         Virginia President Edgar F. Shannon. A second 1964 folder\n         documents an unsuccessful attempt to restrict enrollment in\n         Virginia state colleges by out-of-state students. Materials\n         pertaining to the Virginia Institute of Scientific Research\n         concern the establishment of an institution for graduate\n         research in Richmond. Papers of two Richmond organizations,\n         the Citizens for Excellent Public Schools and the Ad Hoc\n         Committee on Public Schools, demonstrate their commitment to\n         public education during the school busing controversy in\n         1971-1972. This section concludes with miscellaneous speeches\n         and clippings on education.","The remainder of the Bemiss papers reflect his interest in\n         conservation and the environment. Included in this section are\n         records concerning several commissions, the Virginia Outdoor\n         Recreation Study Commission (1964-1966), the Governor's\n         Special Commission on Water Resources (1965-1966), and the\n         Governor's Commission on Virginia' Future (1982-1985). Related\n         material concerns water pollution and parks.","Bemiss was chairman of the Virginia Outdoor Recreation\n         Study Commission, which formulated a comprehensive plan to\n         protect and develop Virginia' scenic, natural, and historic\n         resources. The Virginia Outdoors Plan, passed by the 1966\n         assembly, created a Commission of Outdoor Recreation to\n         acquire and maintain parks, scenic areas, camping grounds, and\n         other sites for public use. The legislation also created the\n         Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Division of\n         Historic Landmarks). Records of the VORSC consist of\n         correspondence, addresses, reports, press releases and\n         clippings. Landmarks Commission materials primarily concern\n         the acquisition of open space easements at \"Old Mansion,\"\n         Caroline County and at \"Wakefield,\" Westmoreland County, and\n         attempts by the owners of \"Tuckahoe,\" Goochland County to\n         change the route of a proposed highway. Correspondence\n         concerning open space easements is primarily with George C.\n         Freeman, a lawyer who designed the law allowing property\n         owners to grant easements designating areas where future\n         development would be prohibited. The Virginia Outdoors Plan\n         also created the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to encourage\n         private philanthropy towards conservation efforts of the\n         state.","Bemiss also served as chairman of the Governor's Special\n         Committee on Water Resources, a commission created to\n         determine the effects of growth on the state's future water\n         resources. An additional folder concerning water resources\n         consists primarily of articles on drainage basins of various\n         state rivers. Materials concerning water pollution consist of\n         a memo on the subject to Governor Linwood Holton and the\n         governor's acknowledgment.","Information and brochures concerning several state parks\n         begin box 6. The next folder pertains to a trip to the Eastern\n         Shore in 1960 and Bemiss's subsequent article on natural areas\n         for Virginia Wildlife magazine.","The following three folders demonstrate Bemiss's interest\n         in both conservation and metropolitan planning. Materials of\n         the Richmond Regional Planning Commission, the Richmond\n         Regional Park Authority, and the Capital Region Park Authority\n         concern cooperative community efforts in creating open space\n         areas in the Richmond metropolitan area. General\n         correspondence concerning the James River precedes materials\n         pertains to a study commission report on deepening the James\n         River channel. Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and reports\n         of the Richmond James River Association, of which Bemiss was\n         president, reflect that organization's apprehension over water\n         usage and the river's flow. The next four folders, consisting\n         of correspondence, clippings, newsletters and maps, concern\n         the construction of a downtown expressway and its effects on\n         natural areas along the James River. Although the expressway\n         was built, parts of the historic Kanawha Canal were preserved\n         and restored and James River Park was established.","In 1982, Bemiss was appointed to the Governor's Commission\n         on Virginia's Future, which was chaired by former Senator\n         William B. Spong. The commission's mission was to assess state\n         needs and provide planning and direction into the twenty-first\n         century. Correspondence, committee assignments, meeting\n         summaries, final reports and clippings precede records\n         pertaining to the Environment and Natural Resources Task\n         Force, which Bemiss chaired. These papers are arranged\n         topically (these topics being sub-headings in the final\n         report). Subjects include: water, land use, waste management,\n         the Chesapeake Bay and fisheries. A final report and related\n         papers of the Government and Planning Task Force follow.","In conjunction with his service on the Future Commission,\n         Bemiss participated in a conference sponsored by the Virginia\n         Institute on Government, in October 1985, on the \"Future of\n         the Virginia Environment.\" The collection contains a copy of\n         the conference's final statement. Miscellaneous correspondence\n         concerning parks and water and addresses pertaining to\n         environmental issues conclude this section.","Miscellaneous speeches and addresses, mostly from\n         dedication, naturalization, and award ceremonies, precede a\n         folder of general miscellany, which includes a 1958 address on\n         fiscal management by Senator Harry F. Byrd."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eFitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n         his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n         various government commissions, and other related political\n         activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n         include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n         Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n         the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n         overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n         particular interest included educational and environmental\n         issues.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n      "],"abstract_tesim":["FitzGerald Bemiss's papers cover\n         his career in the Virginia General Assembly, his work on\n         various government commissions, and other related political\n         activities and interests. Commissions on which he served\n         include the Commission on Public Education (a.k.a. the Gray\n         Commission), the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission,\n         the irginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, and the\n         overnor's Commission on Virginia's Future. His areas of\n         particular interest included educational and environmental\n         issues."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":77,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:22:56.531Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00002"}},{"id":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Howard W. Smith Papers, 1933/1966","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_repositories_3_resources_1591#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc recordings, drawings, and other materials. The papers cover the years 1933 to 1966 when Smith retired from Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_repositories_3_resources_1591#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","ead_ssi":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","_root_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","_nest_parent_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/UVA/repositories_3_resources_1591.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/192326","title_filing_ssi":"Smith, Howard W. Papers","title_ssm":["Howard W. Smith Papers"],"title_tesim":["Howard W. Smith Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1933-1966"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1933-1966"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1933/1966"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Howard W. Smith Papers, 1933/1966"],"text":["Howard W. Smith Papers, 1933/1966","MSS 8731","Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/1591","Democratic Party (Va.)","United States. Congress. House.","United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules","United States. National Labor Relations Board","Labor laws and legislation United States","Virginia -- Politics and government","Civil rights -- United States","Conservatism -- United States","architectural drawings (visual works)","letters (correspondence)","reports","government records","federal government records","state government records","Resolutions (administrative records)","This collection is open for research.","Series I: Bills Introduced in Congress by Judge Smith Boxes 1-12 In general, this series comprises a chronological arrangement by Congress, and an alphabetical series of topics within each Congress. The folders usually contain a copy of the printed bill plus pertinent correspondence, notes, and other helpful material.","Series II: Miscellaneous Legislation Boxes 13-111 This series comprises a chronological series by Congress with an alphabetical arrangement of topics within each Congress. There is generally one folder for each topic, but occasionally there are more. The folders contain correspondence, notes, printed materials, copies of the printed bill, and anything Judge Smith or his staff found pertinent. When material identified as belonging to an earlier Congress appears under a later one, it has been left where it was found on the presumption that the legislation may have carried over or that it was placed there for good reason. Note especially the sub-series on Civil rights in boxes 100-111.","Series III: Miscellaneous Correspondence Boxes 112-187 Boxes 112-187\nAgain, the arrangement in this series is by Congress, and within the Congress, the arrangement is alphabetical. The series begins with the 84th Congress. The topics range from the Democratic National Committee to the Fish and Wildlife Service.","Series IV: Private Bills Boxes 188, 189 Bills introduced by Smith \"for the relief of\" constituents or other private individuals.","Series V: Speeches, Articles, Recordings, Etc. Boxes 190-193; [oversize box] This series contains offprints of articles by and about Smith, copies of the Congressional Record containing Smith's speeches in \"Congress, and other publications containing interviews with, or articles by Smith. Drafts and texts of speeches by Smith are found. The materials are arranged by Congress. There are a number of tape and disc recordings of speeches by Smith, or interviews of him.","Series VI: Campaign Record Boxes 194-210 In this series are found campaign literature, clippings, returns, correspondence with workers and supporters, lists of votes, expense accounts, research files on hi sopponents and their remarks, and folders on areas in Smith's district. Also present are folders on other Virginia elections, and some materials on national elections. The file is organized chronologically by the campaign beginnings with 1938, but materials are sparce until 1950.","Series VII: Endorsement and Patronage Correspondence Boxes 211-213 This correspondence is filed chronologically by the Congress, and alphabetically within the Congress, and covers the 83rd to 89th Congresses.","Series VIII: Correspondence re Petitions; Qualified Voters Boxes 214-217 Arranged by area within his district. Last two boxes contain mailing lists of qualified voters.","Series IX: National Labor Relations Board Files Boxes 219-229 An alphabetical file of materials generated by the Special Committee of the House headed by Smith which investigated the NLRB, 1939-1942. Three scrapbooks, listed at the end of the listings of boxes in this inventory, contain pertinent newspaper clippings and cartoons. For Smith's continuing interest in labor legislation, one should consult Series 1 and 2.","Series X: Strasbourg Conference Records Boxes 230, 231 Smith attended the conference held in Strasbourg in 1951 to discuss problems common to Europe and North America as a member of the U.S. delegation. most of the records in this series are printed reports and debates, but there are a few clippings and letters.","Series XI: Virginia Post Office Correspondence Boxes 232-254 This series contains an alphabetical arrangement by the name of the post office of correspondence concerning postmasterships, location of new post offices and the like. Much patronage material appears here.","Series XII: Service Academies Correspondence Boxes 255-264 A chronological series with folders for each academy for each year beginning with 1945, re appointments.","Series XIII: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission Records Boxes 265-270 This series contains, in no particular order, records of the work of the Commission appointed to determine a suitable memorial to Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D.C. There are minutes of the meetings of the commission, blue prints, correspondence, printed materials, etc. One should also note the existance of the architectural drawings submitted in competition for the design award. These are listed separately at the end of the listings of the contents of the boxes of the main collection.","Series XIV: Miscellaneous Files Boxes 271-274 Miscellaneous files, and clippings and articles about Smith.","Series XV: Scrapbooks This is a series of books, 1938-1966, filled with clippings about Smith and his career, organized chronologically, with some miscellaenous books at the end.","Series XVI: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Architectural Competition Drawings","Howard Worth Smith was born in Broad Run, Fauquier County, Virginia, on 2 February 1883. He attended the public schools there and was graduated from Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Va., in 1901. In 1903, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia, and entered the practice of law in Alexandria where he remained for the next eighteen years. He served as Commonwealth's attorney (1918-1922), judge of the corporation court (1922-1928), and judge of the 16th circuit court (1928-1930).","In 1931, he was elected to Congress from the Eighth Congressional District, and remained in office for thirty-five years. He served as chairman, Committee on Rules (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses) and sponsor of the Smith Act of 1940. Smith was defeated for renomination in the Democratic primary in 1966.","Judge Smith resumed the practice of law in Alexandria, Va., where he died October 3, 1976. He was buried in Georgetown Cemetery, Broad Run, Va.","https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1","When Judge Smith was ready to leave his congressional offices, he called upon the National Archives and Records Service to clean out his files, and pack the materials; this is a service offered to Congressmen by NARS. NARS boxed up all the materials, and moved them across the Potomac to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria early in 1967.","Shortly thereafter, Judge Smith agreed to open his papers to the researchers of the Institute for Social Science Research, and the papers were moved a few blocks from the Federal Records Center to the third floor of Judge Smith's son's law office building where space was made available to the Institute.","The Institute staff worked through the material and removed from the boxes those papers which interested them particularly. These papers they placed in eight filing cabinets in the offices, and a card index file was prepared to assist in locating the materials. The remainder of the papers were kept in the NARS boxes and were stacked about the walls of the rooms. The collection was appraised at this time, and Mr. Robert Metzdorf's notes on the contents give a good summary of its research value.","It took the Institute fifteen or sixteen months to complete its work in the files. They made notes, and copied all materials which they found pertinent their research. By agreement with Judge Smith, the Institute has the right of prior publication of any material from the collection.","This finding aid was created for the purpose of access to Series XVI, and exists in addition to the the guide found at: https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;.","The papers have, in general, been kept in the order in which they were received from the Institute for Social Science Research. Because of the removal of a portion of the collection from the NARS boxes, it was not always possible for the Library staff to determine exactly what the original order of the collection had been. We have moved certain blocks of materials that seemed to belong together to create series within the collection, but very little moving of individual file folders has taken place. Thus, the researcher will find that there are minor inconsistencies in the chronological or alphabetical order in certain portions of the series.","The records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.","For best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number.","This collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc recordings, drawings, and other materials. The papers cover the years 1933 to 1966 when Smith retired from Congress.","The collection is now contained in 274 Hollinger storage boxes (ca. 5\"x15\"x10\"), one oversize box; additionally, there are eighteen looseleaf and scrapbooks, and forty-four architectural drawings. The collection fills approximately 150 shelf feet.","Smith's influence in Congress came chiefly from his early appointment to the Rules Committee. In 1955, he became its chairman, an exceedingly powerful position as the committee can determine the \"length and manner of debate\" on any measure moving from a committee to the floor of the House. \"Although it was initially designed as a traffic committee to ease and expedite the flow of legislation in the House, the Rules Committee by postponing or refusing to grant a bill a rule bottled up measures which did not win the approval of its conservative majority.\" (J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, H arry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945-1966 [Charlottesville, 1968], 71.","Other research interests which may be studied in the collection, according to Mr. Robert Metzdorf, are: \"political history of Virginia, relations of the Virginia and Southern Democrats to the rest of the Democratic Party, labor unions and labor laws, lobbying, investigation of Un-Americian activities, alien registration, the Smith Act and subversion, history of the District of Columbia 1930-1966 [and legislation in Congress pertaining to it as Smith sat on the District Committee], conservation and water pollution, Selective Service and other war-time legislation, the Supreme Court and State's rights, memorials to Jefferson and Madison, the history of workmen's compensation, reappointment and the federal courts, civil rights, the Rules Committee and its role in the legislative process, the history of foreign aid, federal aid to education, the history of immigration, relation between the legislative and executive branches, the history of conservatism in the United States, 1930-1966.\" To these notes may be added the study of unique northern Virginia politics, patronage, and the continuing work of a Congressman in relation to his colleagues and in particular to his constituents. There does not appear to be much material in the collection which shows Smith's relation to Senator Harry Byrd in the political sense, although there is interesting correspondence. Naturally, the collection will be the basis for any biography of Judge Smith, an important historical task which, hopefully, will be undertaken soon.","https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1","https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Howard Worth Smith","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Howard W. Smith Papers, 1933/1966"],"collection_ssim":["Howard W. 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The folders usually contain a copy of the printed bill plus pertinent correspondence, notes, and other helpful material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Miscellaneous Legislation Boxes 13-111 This series comprises a chronological series by Congress with an alphabetical arrangement of topics within each Congress. There is generally one folder for each topic, but occasionally there are more. The folders contain correspondence, notes, printed materials, copies of the printed bill, and anything Judge Smith or his staff found pertinent. When material identified as belonging to an earlier Congress appears under a later one, it has been left where it was found on the presumption that the legislation may have carried over or that it was placed there for good reason. Note especially the sub-series on Civil rights in boxes 100-111.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Miscellaneous Correspondence Boxes 112-187 Boxes 112-187\nAgain, the arrangement in this series is by Congress, and within the Congress, the arrangement is alphabetical. The series begins with the 84th Congress. The topics range from the Democratic National Committee to the Fish and Wildlife Service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Private Bills Boxes 188, 189 Bills introduced by Smith \"for the relief of\" constituents or other private individuals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Speeches, Articles, Recordings, Etc. Boxes 190-193; [oversize box] This series contains offprints of articles by and about Smith, copies of the Congressional Record containing Smith's speeches in \"Congress, and other publications containing interviews with, or articles by Smith. Drafts and texts of speeches by Smith are found. The materials are arranged by Congress. There are a number of tape and disc recordings of speeches by Smith, or interviews of him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI: Campaign Record Boxes 194-210 In this series are found campaign literature, clippings, returns, correspondence with workers and supporters, lists of votes, expense accounts, research files on hi sopponents and their remarks, and folders on areas in Smith's district. Also present are folders on other Virginia elections, and some materials on national elections. The file is organized chronologically by the campaign beginnings with 1938, but materials are sparce until 1950.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII: Endorsement and Patronage Correspondence Boxes 211-213 This correspondence is filed chronologically by the Congress, and alphabetically within the Congress, and covers the 83rd to 89th Congresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII: Correspondence re Petitions; Qualified Voters Boxes 214-217 Arranged by area within his district. Last two boxes contain mailing lists of qualified voters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IX: National Labor Relations Board Files Boxes 219-229 An alphabetical file of materials generated by the Special Committee of the House headed by Smith which investigated the NLRB, 1939-1942. Three scrapbooks, listed at the end of the listings of boxes in this inventory, contain pertinent newspaper clippings and cartoons. For Smith's continuing interest in labor legislation, one should consult Series 1 and 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries X: Strasbourg Conference Records Boxes 230, 231 Smith attended the conference held in Strasbourg in 1951 to discuss problems common to Europe and North America as a member of the U.S. delegation. most of the records in this series are printed reports and debates, but there are a few clippings and letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XI: Virginia Post Office Correspondence Boxes 232-254 This series contains an alphabetical arrangement by the name of the post office of correspondence concerning postmasterships, location of new post offices and the like. Much patronage material appears here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XII: Service Academies Correspondence Boxes 255-264 A chronological series with folders for each academy for each year beginning with 1945, re appointments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XIII: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission Records Boxes 265-270 This series contains, in no particular order, records of the work of the Commission appointed to determine a suitable memorial to Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D.C. There are minutes of the meetings of the commission, blue prints, correspondence, printed materials, etc. One should also note the existance of the architectural drawings submitted in competition for the design award. These are listed separately at the end of the listings of the contents of the boxes of the main collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XIV: Miscellaneous Files Boxes 271-274 Miscellaneous files, and clippings and articles about Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XV: Scrapbooks This is a series of books, 1938-1966, filled with clippings about Smith and his career, organized chronologically, with some miscellaenous books at the end.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XVI: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Architectural Competition Drawings \u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Series I: Bills Introduced in Congress by Judge Smith Boxes 1-12 In general, this series comprises a chronological arrangement by Congress, and an alphabetical series of topics within each Congress. The folders usually contain a copy of the printed bill plus pertinent correspondence, notes, and other helpful material.","Series II: Miscellaneous Legislation Boxes 13-111 This series comprises a chronological series by Congress with an alphabetical arrangement of topics within each Congress. There is generally one folder for each topic, but occasionally there are more. The folders contain correspondence, notes, printed materials, copies of the printed bill, and anything Judge Smith or his staff found pertinent. When material identified as belonging to an earlier Congress appears under a later one, it has been left where it was found on the presumption that the legislation may have carried over or that it was placed there for good reason. Note especially the sub-series on Civil rights in boxes 100-111.","Series III: Miscellaneous Correspondence Boxes 112-187 Boxes 112-187\nAgain, the arrangement in this series is by Congress, and within the Congress, the arrangement is alphabetical. The series begins with the 84th Congress. The topics range from the Democratic National Committee to the Fish and Wildlife Service.","Series IV: Private Bills Boxes 188, 189 Bills introduced by Smith \"for the relief of\" constituents or other private individuals.","Series V: Speeches, Articles, Recordings, Etc. Boxes 190-193; [oversize box] This series contains offprints of articles by and about Smith, copies of the Congressional Record containing Smith's speeches in \"Congress, and other publications containing interviews with, or articles by Smith. Drafts and texts of speeches by Smith are found. The materials are arranged by Congress. There are a number of tape and disc recordings of speeches by Smith, or interviews of him.","Series VI: Campaign Record Boxes 194-210 In this series are found campaign literature, clippings, returns, correspondence with workers and supporters, lists of votes, expense accounts, research files on hi sopponents and their remarks, and folders on areas in Smith's district. Also present are folders on other Virginia elections, and some materials on national elections. The file is organized chronologically by the campaign beginnings with 1938, but materials are sparce until 1950.","Series VII: Endorsement and Patronage Correspondence Boxes 211-213 This correspondence is filed chronologically by the Congress, and alphabetically within the Congress, and covers the 83rd to 89th Congresses.","Series VIII: Correspondence re Petitions; Qualified Voters Boxes 214-217 Arranged by area within his district. Last two boxes contain mailing lists of qualified voters.","Series IX: National Labor Relations Board Files Boxes 219-229 An alphabetical file of materials generated by the Special Committee of the House headed by Smith which investigated the NLRB, 1939-1942. Three scrapbooks, listed at the end of the listings of boxes in this inventory, contain pertinent newspaper clippings and cartoons. For Smith's continuing interest in labor legislation, one should consult Series 1 and 2.","Series X: Strasbourg Conference Records Boxes 230, 231 Smith attended the conference held in Strasbourg in 1951 to discuss problems common to Europe and North America as a member of the U.S. delegation. most of the records in this series are printed reports and debates, but there are a few clippings and letters.","Series XI: Virginia Post Office Correspondence Boxes 232-254 This series contains an alphabetical arrangement by the name of the post office of correspondence concerning postmasterships, location of new post offices and the like. Much patronage material appears here.","Series XII: Service Academies Correspondence Boxes 255-264 A chronological series with folders for each academy for each year beginning with 1945, re appointments.","Series XIII: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission Records Boxes 265-270 This series contains, in no particular order, records of the work of the Commission appointed to determine a suitable memorial to Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D.C. There are minutes of the meetings of the commission, blue prints, correspondence, printed materials, etc. One should also note the existance of the architectural drawings submitted in competition for the design award. These are listed separately at the end of the listings of the contents of the boxes of the main collection.","Series XIV: Miscellaneous Files Boxes 271-274 Miscellaneous files, and clippings and articles about Smith.","Series XV: Scrapbooks This is a series of books, 1938-1966, filled with clippings about Smith and his career, organized chronologically, with some miscellaenous books at the end.","Series XVI: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Architectural Competition Drawings"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHoward Worth Smith was born in Broad Run, Fauquier County, Virginia, on 2 February 1883. He attended the public schools there and was graduated from Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Va., in 1901. In 1903, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia, and entered the practice of law in Alexandria where he remained for the next eighteen years. 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He attended the public schools there and was graduated from Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Va., in 1901. In 1903, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia, and entered the practice of law in Alexandria where he remained for the next eighteen years. He served as Commonwealth's attorney (1918-1922), judge of the corporation court (1922-1928), and judge of the 16th circuit court (1928-1930).","In 1931, he was elected to Congress from the Eighth Congressional District, and remained in office for thirty-five years. He served as chairman, Committee on Rules (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses) and sponsor of the Smith Act of 1940. Smith was defeated for renomination in the Democratic primary in 1966.","Judge Smith resumed the practice of law in Alexandria, Va., where he died October 3, 1976. He was buried in Georgetown Cemetery, Broad Run, Va.","https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1"],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWhen Judge Smith was ready to leave his congressional offices, he called upon the National Archives and Records Service to clean out his files, and pack the materials; this is a service offered to Congressmen by NARS. NARS boxed up all the materials, and moved them across the Potomac to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria early in 1967.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShortly thereafter, Judge Smith agreed to open his papers to the researchers of the Institute for Social Science Research, and the papers were moved a few blocks from the Federal Records Center to the third floor of Judge Smith's son's law office building where space was made available to the Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Institute staff worked through the material and removed from the boxes those papers which interested them particularly. These papers they placed in eight filing cabinets in the offices, and a card index file was prepared to assist in locating the materials. The remainder of the papers were kept in the NARS boxes and were stacked about the walls of the rooms. The collection was appraised at this time, and Mr. Robert Metzdorf's notes on the contents give a good summary of its research value.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIt took the Institute fifteen or sixteen months to complete its work in the files. They made notes, and copied all materials which they found pertinent their research. By agreement with Judge Smith, the Institute has the right of prior publication of any material from the collection.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History"],"custodhist_tesim":["When Judge Smith was ready to leave his congressional offices, he called upon the National Archives and Records Service to clean out his files, and pack the materials; this is a service offered to Congressmen by NARS. NARS boxed up all the materials, and moved them across the Potomac to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria early in 1967.","Shortly thereafter, Judge Smith agreed to open his papers to the researchers of the Institute for Social Science Research, and the papers were moved a few blocks from the Federal Records Center to the third floor of Judge Smith's son's law office building where space was made available to the Institute.","The Institute staff worked through the material and removed from the boxes those papers which interested them particularly. These papers they placed in eight filing cabinets in the offices, and a card index file was prepared to assist in locating the materials. The remainder of the papers were kept in the NARS boxes and were stacked about the walls of the rooms. The collection was appraised at this time, and Mr. Robert Metzdorf's notes on the contents give a good summary of its research value.","It took the Institute fifteen or sixteen months to complete its work in the files. They made notes, and copied all materials which they found pertinent their research. By agreement with Judge Smith, the Institute has the right of prior publication of any material from the collection."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ehttps://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1\u003c/p\u003e  "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Other Finding Aids"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 8731, Howard W. Smith Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Charlottesville, VA\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 8731, Howard W. 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Thus, the researcher will find that there are minor inconsistencies in the chronological or alphabetical order in certain portions of the series."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["The records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.","For best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the files and working papers of \u003cpersname\u003eHoward Worth Smith\u003c/persname\u003e who represented \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc recordings, drawings, and other materials. The papers cover the years \u003cdate\u003e1933\u003c/date\u003e to \u003cdate\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e when Smith retired from Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection is now contained in 274 Hollinger storage boxes (ca. 5\"x15\"x10\"), one oversize box; additionally, there are eighteen looseleaf and scrapbooks, and forty-four architectural drawings. The collection fills approximately 150 shelf feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith's influence in Congress came chiefly from his early appointment to the Rules Committee. In \u003cdate\u003e1955\u003c/date\u003e, he became its chairman, an exceedingly powerful position as the committee can determine the \"length and manner of debate\" on any measure moving from a committee to the floor of the House. \"Although it was initially designed as a traffic committee to ease and expedite the flow of legislation in the House, the Rules Committee by postponing or refusing to grant a bill a rule bottled up measures which did not win the approval of its conservative majority.\" (J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, H arry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945-1966 [Charlottesville, 1968], 71.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther research interests which may be studied in the collection, according to Mr. Robert Metzdorf, are: \"political history of Virginia, relations of the Virginia and Southern Democrats to the rest of the Democratic Party, labor unions and labor laws, lobbying, investigation of Un-Americian activities, alien registration, the Smith Act and subversion, history of the District of Columbia 1930-1966 [and legislation in Congress pertaining to it as Smith sat on the District Committee], conservation and water pollution, Selective Service and other war-time legislation, the Supreme Court and State's rights, memorials to Jefferson and Madison, the history of workmen's compensation, reappointment and the federal courts, civil rights, the Rules Committee and its role in the legislative process, the history of foreign aid, federal aid to education, the history of immigration, relation between the legislative and executive branches, the history of conservatism in the United States, 1930-1966.\" To these notes may be added the study of unique northern Virginia politics, patronage, and the continuing work of a Congressman in relation to his colleagues and in particular to his constituents. There does not appear to be much material in the collection which shows Smith's relation to Senator Harry Byrd in the political sense, although there is interesting correspondence. Naturally, the collection will be the basis for any biography of Judge Smith, an important historical task which, hopefully, will be undertaken soon. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehttps://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc recordings, drawings, and other materials. The papers cover the years 1933 to 1966 when Smith retired from Congress.","The collection is now contained in 274 Hollinger storage boxes (ca. 5\"x15\"x10\"), one oversize box; additionally, there are eighteen looseleaf and scrapbooks, and forty-four architectural drawings. The collection fills approximately 150 shelf feet.","Smith's influence in Congress came chiefly from his early appointment to the Rules Committee. In 1955, he became its chairman, an exceedingly powerful position as the committee can determine the \"length and manner of debate\" on any measure moving from a committee to the floor of the House. \"Although it was initially designed as a traffic committee to ease and expedite the flow of legislation in the House, the Rules Committee by postponing or refusing to grant a bill a rule bottled up measures which did not win the approval of its conservative majority.\" (J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, H arry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945-1966 [Charlottesville, 1968], 71.","Other research interests which may be studied in the collection, according to Mr. Robert Metzdorf, are: \"political history of Virginia, relations of the Virginia and Southern Democrats to the rest of the Democratic Party, labor unions and labor laws, lobbying, investigation of Un-Americian activities, alien registration, the Smith Act and subversion, history of the District of Columbia 1930-1966 [and legislation in Congress pertaining to it as Smith sat on the District Committee], conservation and water pollution, Selective Service and other war-time legislation, the Supreme Court and State's rights, memorials to Jefferson and Madison, the history of workmen's compensation, reappointment and the federal courts, civil rights, the Rules Committee and its role in the legislative process, the history of foreign aid, federal aid to education, the history of immigration, relation between the legislative and executive branches, the history of conservatism in the United States, 1930-1966.\" To these notes may be added the study of unique northern Virginia politics, patronage, and the continuing work of a Congressman in relation to his colleagues and in particular to his constituents. There does not appear to be much material in the collection which shows Smith's relation to Senator Harry Byrd in the political sense, although there is interesting correspondence. Naturally, the collection will be the basis for any biography of Judge Smith, an important historical task which, hopefully, will be undertaken soon.","https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ehttps://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials"],"corpname_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library"],"persname_ssim":["Howard Worth Smith"],"names_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Howard Worth Smith"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":45,"online_item_count_is":44,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:40:42.029Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","ead_ssi":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","_root_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","_nest_parent_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_1591","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/UVA/repositories_3_resources_1591.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/192326","title_filing_ssi":"Smith, Howard W. 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The folders contain correspondence, notes, printed materials, copies of the printed bill, and anything Judge Smith or his staff found pertinent. When material identified as belonging to an earlier Congress appears under a later one, it has been left where it was found on the presumption that the legislation may have carried over or that it was placed there for good reason. Note especially the sub-series on Civil rights in boxes 100-111.","Series III: Miscellaneous Correspondence Boxes 112-187 Boxes 112-187\nAgain, the arrangement in this series is by Congress, and within the Congress, the arrangement is alphabetical. The series begins with the 84th Congress. The topics range from the Democratic National Committee to the Fish and Wildlife Service.","Series IV: Private Bills Boxes 188, 189 Bills introduced by Smith \"for the relief of\" constituents or other private individuals.","Series V: Speeches, Articles, Recordings, Etc. Boxes 190-193; [oversize box] This series contains offprints of articles by and about Smith, copies of the Congressional Record containing Smith's speeches in \"Congress, and other publications containing interviews with, or articles by Smith. Drafts and texts of speeches by Smith are found. The materials are arranged by Congress. There are a number of tape and disc recordings of speeches by Smith, or interviews of him.","Series VI: Campaign Record Boxes 194-210 In this series are found campaign literature, clippings, returns, correspondence with workers and supporters, lists of votes, expense accounts, research files on hi sopponents and their remarks, and folders on areas in Smith's district. Also present are folders on other Virginia elections, and some materials on national elections. The file is organized chronologically by the campaign beginnings with 1938, but materials are sparce until 1950.","Series VII: Endorsement and Patronage Correspondence Boxes 211-213 This correspondence is filed chronologically by the Congress, and alphabetically within the Congress, and covers the 83rd to 89th Congresses.","Series VIII: Correspondence re Petitions; Qualified Voters Boxes 214-217 Arranged by area within his district. Last two boxes contain mailing lists of qualified voters.","Series IX: National Labor Relations Board Files Boxes 219-229 An alphabetical file of materials generated by the Special Committee of the House headed by Smith which investigated the NLRB, 1939-1942. Three scrapbooks, listed at the end of the listings of boxes in this inventory, contain pertinent newspaper clippings and cartoons. For Smith's continuing interest in labor legislation, one should consult Series 1 and 2.","Series X: Strasbourg Conference Records Boxes 230, 231 Smith attended the conference held in Strasbourg in 1951 to discuss problems common to Europe and North America as a member of the U.S. delegation. most of the records in this series are printed reports and debates, but there are a few clippings and letters.","Series XI: Virginia Post Office Correspondence Boxes 232-254 This series contains an alphabetical arrangement by the name of the post office of correspondence concerning postmasterships, location of new post offices and the like. Much patronage material appears here.","Series XII: Service Academies Correspondence Boxes 255-264 A chronological series with folders for each academy for each year beginning with 1945, re appointments.","Series XIII: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission Records Boxes 265-270 This series contains, in no particular order, records of the work of the Commission appointed to determine a suitable memorial to Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D.C. There are minutes of the meetings of the commission, blue prints, correspondence, printed materials, etc. One should also note the existance of the architectural drawings submitted in competition for the design award. These are listed separately at the end of the listings of the contents of the boxes of the main collection.","Series XIV: Miscellaneous Files Boxes 271-274 Miscellaneous files, and clippings and articles about Smith.","Series XV: Scrapbooks This is a series of books, 1938-1966, filled with clippings about Smith and his career, organized chronologically, with some miscellaenous books at the end.","Series XVI: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Architectural Competition Drawings","Howard Worth Smith was born in Broad Run, Fauquier County, Virginia, on 2 February 1883. He attended the public schools there and was graduated from Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Va., in 1901. In 1903, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia, and entered the practice of law in Alexandria where he remained for the next eighteen years. He served as Commonwealth's attorney (1918-1922), judge of the corporation court (1922-1928), and judge of the 16th circuit court (1928-1930).","In 1931, he was elected to Congress from the Eighth Congressional District, and remained in office for thirty-five years. He served as chairman, Committee on Rules (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses) and sponsor of the Smith Act of 1940. Smith was defeated for renomination in the Democratic primary in 1966.","Judge Smith resumed the practice of law in Alexandria, Va., where he died October 3, 1976. He was buried in Georgetown Cemetery, Broad Run, Va.","https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1","When Judge Smith was ready to leave his congressional offices, he called upon the National Archives and Records Service to clean out his files, and pack the materials; this is a service offered to Congressmen by NARS. NARS boxed up all the materials, and moved them across the Potomac to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria early in 1967.","Shortly thereafter, Judge Smith agreed to open his papers to the researchers of the Institute for Social Science Research, and the papers were moved a few blocks from the Federal Records Center to the third floor of Judge Smith's son's law office building where space was made available to the Institute.","The Institute staff worked through the material and removed from the boxes those papers which interested them particularly. These papers they placed in eight filing cabinets in the offices, and a card index file was prepared to assist in locating the materials. The remainder of the papers were kept in the NARS boxes and were stacked about the walls of the rooms. The collection was appraised at this time, and Mr. Robert Metzdorf's notes on the contents give a good summary of its research value.","It took the Institute fifteen or sixteen months to complete its work in the files. They made notes, and copied all materials which they found pertinent their research. By agreement with Judge Smith, the Institute has the right of prior publication of any material from the collection.","This finding aid was created for the purpose of access to Series XVI, and exists in addition to the the guide found at: https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;.","The papers have, in general, been kept in the order in which they were received from the Institute for Social Science Research. Because of the removal of a portion of the collection from the NARS boxes, it was not always possible for the Library staff to determine exactly what the original order of the collection had been. We have moved certain blocks of materials that seemed to belong together to create series within the collection, but very little moving of individual file folders has taken place. Thus, the researcher will find that there are minor inconsistencies in the chronological or alphabetical order in certain portions of the series.","The records/guides for this collection's original acquisition and other previous additions can be found in VIRGO, the Library's online catalog, as well as (in many cases) on the Archival Repositories of the Virginias (ARVAS) website.","For best results, search using the collection's Identifier/Call Number.","This collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. Included are correspondence received and carbon copies of replies, clippings, printed government and other publications, copies of printed bills, reports, press releases, speeches, notes, memoranda, financial records, tape and disc recordings, drawings, and other materials. The papers cover the years 1933 to 1966 when Smith retired from Congress.","The collection is now contained in 274 Hollinger storage boxes (ca. 5\"x15\"x10\"), one oversize box; additionally, there are eighteen looseleaf and scrapbooks, and forty-four architectural drawings. The collection fills approximately 150 shelf feet.","Smith's influence in Congress came chiefly from his early appointment to the Rules Committee. In 1955, he became its chairman, an exceedingly powerful position as the committee can determine the \"length and manner of debate\" on any measure moving from a committee to the floor of the House. \"Although it was initially designed as a traffic committee to ease and expedite the flow of legislation in the House, the Rules Committee by postponing or refusing to grant a bill a rule bottled up measures which did not win the approval of its conservative majority.\" (J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, H arry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945-1966 [Charlottesville, 1968], 71.","Other research interests which may be studied in the collection, according to Mr. Robert Metzdorf, are: \"political history of Virginia, relations of the Virginia and Southern Democrats to the rest of the Democratic Party, labor unions and labor laws, lobbying, investigation of Un-Americian activities, alien registration, the Smith Act and subversion, history of the District of Columbia 1930-1966 [and legislation in Congress pertaining to it as Smith sat on the District Committee], conservation and water pollution, Selective Service and other war-time legislation, the Supreme Court and State's rights, memorials to Jefferson and Madison, the history of workmen's compensation, reappointment and the federal courts, civil rights, the Rules Committee and its role in the legislative process, the history of foreign aid, federal aid to education, the history of immigration, relation between the legislative and executive branches, the history of conservatism in the United States, 1930-1966.\" To these notes may be added the study of unique northern Virginia politics, patronage, and the continuing work of a Congressman in relation to his colleagues and in particular to his constituents. There does not appear to be much material in the collection which shows Smith's relation to Senator Harry Byrd in the political sense, although there is interesting correspondence. Naturally, the collection will be the basis for any biography of Judge Smith, an important historical task which, hopefully, will be undertaken soon.","https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1","https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Howard Worth Smith","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Howard W. Smith Papers, 1933/1966"],"collection_ssim":["Howard W. 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The folders usually contain a copy of the printed bill plus pertinent correspondence, notes, and other helpful material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Miscellaneous Legislation Boxes 13-111 This series comprises a chronological series by Congress with an alphabetical arrangement of topics within each Congress. There is generally one folder for each topic, but occasionally there are more. The folders contain correspondence, notes, printed materials, copies of the printed bill, and anything Judge Smith or his staff found pertinent. When material identified as belonging to an earlier Congress appears under a later one, it has been left where it was found on the presumption that the legislation may have carried over or that it was placed there for good reason. Note especially the sub-series on Civil rights in boxes 100-111.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Miscellaneous Correspondence Boxes 112-187 Boxes 112-187\nAgain, the arrangement in this series is by Congress, and within the Congress, the arrangement is alphabetical. The series begins with the 84th Congress. The topics range from the Democratic National Committee to the Fish and Wildlife Service.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Private Bills Boxes 188, 189 Bills introduced by Smith \"for the relief of\" constituents or other private individuals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Speeches, Articles, Recordings, Etc. Boxes 190-193; [oversize box] This series contains offprints of articles by and about Smith, copies of the Congressional Record containing Smith's speeches in \"Congress, and other publications containing interviews with, or articles by Smith. Drafts and texts of speeches by Smith are found. The materials are arranged by Congress. There are a number of tape and disc recordings of speeches by Smith, or interviews of him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI: Campaign Record Boxes 194-210 In this series are found campaign literature, clippings, returns, correspondence with workers and supporters, lists of votes, expense accounts, research files on hi sopponents and their remarks, and folders on areas in Smith's district. Also present are folders on other Virginia elections, and some materials on national elections. The file is organized chronologically by the campaign beginnings with 1938, but materials are sparce until 1950.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII: Endorsement and Patronage Correspondence Boxes 211-213 This correspondence is filed chronologically by the Congress, and alphabetically within the Congress, and covers the 83rd to 89th Congresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII: Correspondence re Petitions; Qualified Voters Boxes 214-217 Arranged by area within his district. Last two boxes contain mailing lists of qualified voters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IX: National Labor Relations Board Files Boxes 219-229 An alphabetical file of materials generated by the Special Committee of the House headed by Smith which investigated the NLRB, 1939-1942. Three scrapbooks, listed at the end of the listings of boxes in this inventory, contain pertinent newspaper clippings and cartoons. For Smith's continuing interest in labor legislation, one should consult Series 1 and 2.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries X: Strasbourg Conference Records Boxes 230, 231 Smith attended the conference held in Strasbourg in 1951 to discuss problems common to Europe and North America as a member of the U.S. delegation. most of the records in this series are printed reports and debates, but there are a few clippings and letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XI: Virginia Post Office Correspondence Boxes 232-254 This series contains an alphabetical arrangement by the name of the post office of correspondence concerning postmasterships, location of new post offices and the like. Much patronage material appears here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XII: Service Academies Correspondence Boxes 255-264 A chronological series with folders for each academy for each year beginning with 1945, re appointments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XIII: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission Records Boxes 265-270 This series contains, in no particular order, records of the work of the Commission appointed to determine a suitable memorial to Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D.C. There are minutes of the meetings of the commission, blue prints, correspondence, printed materials, etc. One should also note the existance of the architectural drawings submitted in competition for the design award. These are listed separately at the end of the listings of the contents of the boxes of the main collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XIV: Miscellaneous Files Boxes 271-274 Miscellaneous files, and clippings and articles about Smith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XV: Scrapbooks This is a series of books, 1938-1966, filled with clippings about Smith and his career, organized chronologically, with some miscellaenous books at the end.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XVI: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Architectural Competition Drawings \u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Series I: Bills Introduced in Congress by Judge Smith Boxes 1-12 In general, this series comprises a chronological arrangement by Congress, and an alphabetical series of topics within each Congress. The folders usually contain a copy of the printed bill plus pertinent correspondence, notes, and other helpful material.","Series II: Miscellaneous Legislation Boxes 13-111 This series comprises a chronological series by Congress with an alphabetical arrangement of topics within each Congress. There is generally one folder for each topic, but occasionally there are more. The folders contain correspondence, notes, printed materials, copies of the printed bill, and anything Judge Smith or his staff found pertinent. When material identified as belonging to an earlier Congress appears under a later one, it has been left where it was found on the presumption that the legislation may have carried over or that it was placed there for good reason. Note especially the sub-series on Civil rights in boxes 100-111.","Series III: Miscellaneous Correspondence Boxes 112-187 Boxes 112-187\nAgain, the arrangement in this series is by Congress, and within the Congress, the arrangement is alphabetical. The series begins with the 84th Congress. The topics range from the Democratic National Committee to the Fish and Wildlife Service.","Series IV: Private Bills Boxes 188, 189 Bills introduced by Smith \"for the relief of\" constituents or other private individuals.","Series V: Speeches, Articles, Recordings, Etc. Boxes 190-193; [oversize box] This series contains offprints of articles by and about Smith, copies of the Congressional Record containing Smith's speeches in \"Congress, and other publications containing interviews with, or articles by Smith. Drafts and texts of speeches by Smith are found. The materials are arranged by Congress. There are a number of tape and disc recordings of speeches by Smith, or interviews of him.","Series VI: Campaign Record Boxes 194-210 In this series are found campaign literature, clippings, returns, correspondence with workers and supporters, lists of votes, expense accounts, research files on hi sopponents and their remarks, and folders on areas in Smith's district. Also present are folders on other Virginia elections, and some materials on national elections. The file is organized chronologically by the campaign beginnings with 1938, but materials are sparce until 1950.","Series VII: Endorsement and Patronage Correspondence Boxes 211-213 This correspondence is filed chronologically by the Congress, and alphabetically within the Congress, and covers the 83rd to 89th Congresses.","Series VIII: Correspondence re Petitions; Qualified Voters Boxes 214-217 Arranged by area within his district. Last two boxes contain mailing lists of qualified voters.","Series IX: National Labor Relations Board Files Boxes 219-229 An alphabetical file of materials generated by the Special Committee of the House headed by Smith which investigated the NLRB, 1939-1942. Three scrapbooks, listed at the end of the listings of boxes in this inventory, contain pertinent newspaper clippings and cartoons. For Smith's continuing interest in labor legislation, one should consult Series 1 and 2.","Series X: Strasbourg Conference Records Boxes 230, 231 Smith attended the conference held in Strasbourg in 1951 to discuss problems common to Europe and North America as a member of the U.S. delegation. most of the records in this series are printed reports and debates, but there are a few clippings and letters.","Series XI: Virginia Post Office Correspondence Boxes 232-254 This series contains an alphabetical arrangement by the name of the post office of correspondence concerning postmasterships, location of new post offices and the like. Much patronage material appears here.","Series XII: Service Academies Correspondence Boxes 255-264 A chronological series with folders for each academy for each year beginning with 1945, re appointments.","Series XIII: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission Records Boxes 265-270 This series contains, in no particular order, records of the work of the Commission appointed to determine a suitable memorial to Thomas Jefferson in Washington, D.C. There are minutes of the meetings of the commission, blue prints, correspondence, printed materials, etc. One should also note the existance of the architectural drawings submitted in competition for the design award. These are listed separately at the end of the listings of the contents of the boxes of the main collection.","Series XIV: Miscellaneous Files Boxes 271-274 Miscellaneous files, and clippings and articles about Smith.","Series XV: Scrapbooks This is a series of books, 1938-1966, filled with clippings about Smith and his career, organized chronologically, with some miscellaenous books at the end.","Series XVI: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Architectural Competition Drawings"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHoward Worth Smith was born in Broad Run, Fauquier County, Virginia, on 2 February 1883. He attended the public schools there and was graduated from Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Va., in 1901. In 1903, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia, and entered the practice of law in Alexandria where he remained for the next eighteen years. 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He attended the public schools there and was graduated from Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Va., in 1901. In 1903, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia, and entered the practice of law in Alexandria where he remained for the next eighteen years. He served as Commonwealth's attorney (1918-1922), judge of the corporation court (1922-1928), and judge of the 16th circuit court (1928-1930).","In 1931, he was elected to Congress from the Eighth Congressional District, and remained in office for thirty-five years. He served as chairman, Committee on Rules (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses) and sponsor of the Smith Act of 1940. Smith was defeated for renomination in the Democratic primary in 1966.","Judge Smith resumed the practice of law in Alexandria, Va., where he died October 3, 1976. He was buried in Georgetown Cemetery, Broad Run, Va.","https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1"],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWhen Judge Smith was ready to leave his congressional offices, he called upon the National Archives and Records Service to clean out his files, and pack the materials; this is a service offered to Congressmen by NARS. 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The collection was appraised at this time, and Mr. Robert Metzdorf's notes on the contents give a good summary of its research value.","It took the Institute fifteen or sixteen months to complete its work in the files. They made notes, and copied all materials which they found pertinent their research. By agreement with Judge Smith, the Institute has the right of prior publication of any material from the collection."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ehttps://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1\u003c/p\u003e  "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Other Finding Aids"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 8731, Howard W. Smith Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Charlottesville, VA\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 8731, Howard W. 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There does not appear to be much material in the collection which shows Smith's relation to Senator Harry Byrd in the political sense, although there is interesting correspondence. Naturally, the collection will be the basis for any biography of Judge Smith, an important historical task which, hopefully, will be undertaken soon. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehttps://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03824.xml;query=;#bioghist_1.1\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the files and working papers of Howard Worth Smith who represented Virginia in Congress for some thirty-five years as representative from the Eighth Congressional District. 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