Lawyers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Attorney's ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-96-2
Scope and Contents
This attorney's ledger contains information about estates, expenses, money transactions, pensions, and insurance.
Dates:
1884 - 1890
Papers of Edward Price Buford
Collection
Identifier: MSS 38-31
Scope and Contents
Papers of Edward Price Buford, lawyer of Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Va., who practiced alone and in the firms of Buford, Palmer and Hill, and Buford, Palmer and Eggleston. Letter books, daybook and journal containing personal and legal correspondence and accounts, and materials relating to political and economic conditions in Lawrenceville and Southside Virginia, to a hospital fund campaign in Lawrenceville, and to the Lawrenceville Land and Timber Co. of which Buford was an officer....
Dates:
1893 - 1931
Gregory H. Swanson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2024-01
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one part of Gregory H. Swanson's professional papers. They primarily document his thoughts on civil rights and his work in this area during the 1950s. The collection also includes Swanson's class photograph from the Howard University School of Law and several posthumous awards given to his daughter, Karen.In 2024, the University of Virginia Law Library processed into its collection, MSS-2024-02, a copy of a Virginia General Assembly joint resolution...
Dates:
1948 - 2022
Christian S. Hutter miscellany
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15511
Scope and Contents
This autograph and miscellany collection created by Christian Sixtus Hutter consists of miscellaneous material ranging from circa 1602 to 1945 and includes autographs, correspondence, government documents, financial and legal documents, military documents, and telegrams, chiefly from the United States and Great Britain, but also including some material from continental Europe. While most of the collection is in the English language, there are a number of documents in French, German, Spanish,...
Dates:
circa 1602-1945
John M. Woolsey collection of legal documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-6
Scope and Contents
The John M. Woolsey collection is comprised of fifteen historically significant legal documents from 1790 to 1844.The papers contain the records of two cases signed by Samuel Chase, justice of the United States Supreme Court and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. This information was recorded when Justice Chase presided over the Supreme Court of Maryland. Six papers are entirely in James Monroe’s handwriting and form an agreement of arbitration between James Monroe...
Dates:
1790 - 1844
Aubrey E. Strode papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 3014
Scope and Contents
Aubrey E. Strode (1861-1969,88 cubic feet) was a Virginia lawyer, state senator and eugenics advocate who drafted the Virginia sterilization law and brought Buck vs. Bell to the Supreme Court. This collection consists of his personal and professional papers concerning his family, law practice, army service, political and legislative activities as a member of the Virginia Senate, the Virginia Democratic Party and the Progressive movement, and as a co-owner of the newspaper, The Amherst...
Dates:
1861-1969