A&M 1661Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence, 1913-1958 A&M 1661Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence, A&M 1661, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

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1661, 1955

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Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.

Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West Virginia-Virginia Debt controversy; the W. Va. Anti-Communist League; Army-McCarthy row; United Mine Workers medical welfare cases; Mother Mary Jones; the Kessler Hatfield Hospital and Training School; Hatfield's farming interests and the Sycamour Coal, Guyan Eagle Coal, the Tidewater Coal and Coke and other coal companies in which Hatfield had an interest.

Correspondents include Carl G. Bachman, William Blizzard, H.L. Brooks, John W. Bricker, William S. Chilton, Jr., William G. Conley, Thomas E. Dewey, Everett M. Dirksen, E.E. Duddington, Hubert S. Ellis, Benjamin F. Fairless, Herbert Fitzpatrick, Mike J. Flynn, Herman Gieshe, Walter F. George, Septimus/Septimius Hall, Walter S. Hallanan, Harvey W. Harmar, Cecil B. Highland, Herbert Hoover, C. H. Huston, Arthur M. Hyde, Harley M. Kilgore, Charles H. Kimball, John L. Lewis, Robert R. Mc Cormick, William C. Marland, Joseph W. Martin, Jr. , Clarence W. Meadows, Will E. Neal, M. M. Neely, H. C. Ogden, Okey L. Patteson, Carrol Reece, Chapman Revercomb, Forest C. Sammons, Robert A. Taft, John J. Walsh, and Kenneth Wherry.

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 Army-McCarthy controversy, 1954 Coal mining - coal companies. Coal mining - Labor organization. Coal mining - Medical care. Coal mining. Elections Farms and farming. Hospitals and sanitariums. Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. Physicians - letters and papers. Politics and government. Union names. Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. New Deal, 1933-1939 Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. West Virginia - Governors. West Virginia - Politics and government. United States -- Politics and government Politicians -- United States Guyan Eagle Coal Company Huntington Memorial Hospital Kessler-Hatfield Hospital Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Sycamore Coal Company Tidewater Coal and Coke Company United Mine Workers of America United States. Congress. Senate West Virginia. Fair Deal West Virginia. Anti-Communist League Blizzard, William. Bricker, John W. (John William), 1893-1986 Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1893-1950 Conley, William G. (William Gustavus), 1866-1940 Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971 Dirksen, Everett McKinley Fairless, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1890-1962 George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin), 1878-1957 Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962 Harmer, Harvey W. (Harvey Walker), 1865-1961 Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 Highland, Cecil B. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Jones, Mary. Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 Marland, William C. Martin, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1884-1968 Meadows, Clarence W. Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 Ogden, H. C. Patteson, Okey L. Reece, Carroll. Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953 Wherry, Kenneth S. (Kenneth Spicer), 1892-1951 United States. Army Bachman, Carl G. Brooks, H.L. Duddington, E.E. Ellis, Hubert S. Fitzpatrick, Herbert Flynn, Mike J. Gieshe, Herman Hall, Septimius, 1847-1926 Huston, C.H. Hyde, Arthur M. Kimball, Charles H. McCormick, Robert R. Neal, Will. Sammons, Forest Charles Walsh, John J. Guyan Eagle Coal Company National Rifle Association Series 1. Personal Papers and Correspondence (Boxes 1-10)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929631913-195812345678910Papers and correspondence, A-BArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929661Papers and correspondence, C-EArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929672Papers and correspondence, F-GArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929683Papers and correspondence, HArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929694Papers and correspondence, Hallanan, W.S.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929705Papers and correspondence, I-LArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929716Papers and correspondence, MArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929727Papers and correspondence, N-RArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929738Papers and correspondence, SArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929749Papers and correspondence, T-ZArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/19297510Series 2. Medical Correspondence (Boxes 11-15)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929641945-19571112131415Medical Correspondence, A-FArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/19297611Medical Correspondence, G-JArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/19297712Medical Correspondence, K-NArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/19297813Medical Correspondence, O-RArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/19297914Medical Correspondence, S-ZArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/19298015Series 3. Political Correspondence (Boxes 16A-18)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929651924-195716A16B1718Political CorrespondenceArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929811924 October 2 -1932 February 2516APolitical CorrespondenceArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929821932 February 28 - 193316BPolitical CorrespondenceArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929831933-195717Sycamore Coal Company PapersArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1929841941-195218