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Start Over Repository Library of Virginia Collection Thomas N. Downing Papers, 1947-1977 Level Collection

Thomas N. Downing Papers, 1947-1977

Downing, Thomas N. (Thomas Nelms), 1919-2001

Papers, 1947-1977, of Thomas N. Downing (1919-2001) consist of correspondence, political files, speeches, and related documents; they are the public records related to his 18-year tenure as a congressman representing Virginia's First District in the United States House of Representatives. The records include manuscripts, typescripts, xerox, and other reproductions, newsprint, photographs, printed forms (blank and filled in), published items, and other media. The first box of papers contains a small group of records from Downing's two immediate predecessors in the First District seat, Schuyler Otis Bland (1872-1950) and Edward John Robeson, Jr. (1890-1966).

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