<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" findaidstatus="completed" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-viw">Lassiter-Papers</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper type="filing">Lassiter Papers</titleproper><titleproper>Guide to the Lassiter Papers <num>Mss. 39.1 L33</num></titleproper><author>Special Collections Staff.</author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Special Collections Research Center</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/logos/wm.jpg" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><p><date>2007-07-23</date></p><address><addressline>William &amp; Mary Special Collections Research Center</addressline><addressline>Earl Gregg Swem Library</addressline><addressline>400 Landrum Dr</addressline><addressline>Williamsburg, Virginia</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 757-221-3090</addressline><addressline>spcoll@wm.edu</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2026-06-19 07:04:03 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>The collection description/finding aid is written in <language encodinganalog="041" langcode="eng">English</language></langusage></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">4 Linear Feet</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1861/1928" type="inclusive">1861-1928</unitdate>
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<p>Other Information:</p><p> A PDF document of the inventory of series 1 is available online.</p><p> Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/39_1_L33_Lassiter.pdf</p>  </odd>
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    <head>Biographical Information:</head>
Francis Rives Lassiter was born in Petersburg, Va. on 18 February 1868. He graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia and began to practice law in Boston, Mass. Lassiter returned to Petersburg and was the city attorney of Petersburg 1888-1893 and was appointed U. S. District Attorney for the Eastern District in 1893. He served in the U. S. House of Representatives 1900-1903 and 1907-1909. He died on 31 October 1909. His brother Charles Trotter Lassiter was also a lawyer in Petersburg. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Francis Rives Lassiter&amp;quot;>http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Francis Rives Lassiter&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.  "/></bioghist>
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    <head>Acquisition Information:</head>
<p>Purchase. Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>Acc. 2011.613 added in October 2011 by Benjamin Bromley.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use:</head>
<p>Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access:</head>
<p>Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.</p>  </accessrestrict>
  <prefercite id="aspace_996676927309b0e02c5c0db9ca01c699">
    <head>Preferred Citation:</head>
<p>Lassiter Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Papers (including correspondence and speeches); 1861-1928; of Francis Rives Lassiter and Charles Trotter Lassiter. Correspondence concerns Virginia Democratic Party, Prohibition, the Good Roads Movement, agriculture, and the presidential campaign of 1928. The collection includes a list of Petersburg, Va. volunteers in the American Civil War; letter copybooks of both men; and papers, 1910, relating to the death of Francis Rives Lassiter.  962 items and 8 volumes.</p><p> Acc. 2011.613 includes a letter, 12 August 1907, of Francis Rives Lassiter to William C. Schroeder.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <genreform source="aat">Agendas (administrative records)</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Correspondence</genreform>
    <genreform source="local">Letter books</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Publications</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Speeches</genreform>
    <geogname source="local">Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century</geogname>
    <geogname source="local">Virginia--Politics and government--20th century</geogname>
    <subject source="local">Agriculture--Virginia--19th century</subject>
    <subject source="local">Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Legal documents</subject>
    <subject source="local">Presidents--United States--Election--1928</subject>
    <subject source="local">Prohibition--United States--History</subject>
    <subject source="local">Prohibition--Virginia--History</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Roads--Virginia</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865</subject>
    <corpname source="lcsh">Democratic Party (U.S.)</corpname>
    <corpname source="lcnaf">Democratic Party (Va.)</corpname>
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