Oscar Branch Colquitt papers
Scope and Contents
Papers concern Colquitt's career and political activities and include correspondence, letterpresses, scrapbooks, speeches, photographs, reports, campaign materials, voting records, bills and resolutions, financial, documents, reference files, and genealogical materials about the Burkhalter family.
Dates
- Creation: 1873 - 1941
Creator
- Colquitt, Oscar Branch, 1861-1940 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
A portion of this collection is stored remotely; contact repository in advance for retrieval.
Conditions Governing Use
There are no use restrictions on this collection. Publisher is responsible for complying with copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Texas state senator (1895-1899); Texas railroad commissioner (1903-1911); governor of Texas (1910-1915); U.S. Senate candidate (1916); member of the United States Board of Mediation (1929-1933); representative of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1935-1940). Newspaperman and lawyer.
Extent
51.3 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Texas state senator (1895-1899); Texas railroad commissioner (1903-1911); governor of Texas (1910-1915); U.S. Senate candidate (1916); member of the United States Board of Mediation (1929-1933); representative of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1935-1940). Newspaperman and lawyer. Papers concern Colquitt's career and political activities and include correspondence, letterpresses, scrapbooks, speeches, photographs, reports, campaign materials, voting records, bills and resolutions, financial documents, reference files, and genealogical materials about the Burkhalter family.
Organization
Organized by form of material.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
Accession Number(s)
2001-052
OCLC Number
32799906
Processing Information
Collection processed by Kristy Sorensen, August 2002. Subsequent processing by Evan Hocker, March 2004; and Colleen Hobbs, June 2021 and April 2022.
Subject
- Democratic Party (Tex.) (Organization)
- Ku Klux Klan 1915-.... (Organization)
- New Mexico Military Institute (Organization)
- Railroad Commission of Texas (Organization)
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Organization)
- Texas (Battleship) (Organization)
- Texas. Legislature. (Organization)
- United States. Board of Mediation (Organization)
- United States. Interstate Commerce Commission (Organization)
- Bailey, Joseph W. (Joseph Weldon), 1863-1929 (Person)
- Colquitt, Rawlins M., 1887- (Person)
- Ferguson, James Edward, 1871-1944 (Person)
- Ferguson, Miriam Amanda, 1875-1961 (Person)
- Colquitt, Oscar Branch, 1861-1940 (Person)
- Ball, Thomas Henry, 1859-1944 (Person)
- Davidson, Robert Vance, 1853-1925 (Person)
- Johnson, Cone, 1860-1933 (Person)
- Poindexter, William, 1854-1923 (Person)
- Rankin, G. C. (George Clark), 1849-1915 (Person)
- Troutman, Joanna Elizabeth, 1818-1879 (Person)
- Title
- Oscar Branch Colquitt Papers, 1873-1941
- Status
- Ready To Publish
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- August 6, 2002: Edited with XMetaL 2 by Kristy Sorensen, according to instructions in <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="">Editing TARO EAD XML Finding Aids with XMetaL</title>.
- Tue Jul 22 15:26:50 CDT 2003: urn:taro:utexas.cah.00078 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505).
- March 2004: Edited and reformatted by Evan Hocker
- 2021-06-11: Detailed inventory provided by reference services; added by Colleen Hobbs.
- 2022-04-06: Colquitt materials in Texas Collection reincorporated into Colquitt papers, by Colleen Hobbs.
Repository Details
Part of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin TX 78712
