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| Size | 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2500 items) |
| Abstract | James Mathews Griggs (1861-1910) was a teacher, lawyer, state circuit judge, political leader, and United States representative (1896-1910), from Dawson, Ga. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs. Much of the correspondence is with constituents, Georgia political leaders, and members of the judiciary and the press, and relates to public issues and activities in Congress during Griggs's term of office, 1896-1910, as United States representative from Georgia. Among the subjects discussed are elections and candidates, rural mail service, railroad rates, tariff reduction, national forests, farming, Prohibition, the Panama Canal, and appropriations for the Post Office Department and the Army. Also included is correspondence with overseers of Griggs's farm at Shellman, Ga. |
| Creator | Griggs, James Mathews, 1861-1910. |
| Language | English |
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James Mathews Griggs (1861-1910) of Dawson, Ga., was a teacher, lawyer, state circuit judge, political leader, and United States representative (1896-1910). He served on the Post Office Committee, Ways and Means, and others. He also owned a farm at Shellman, Ga.
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The collection includes correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs. Much of the correspondence is with constituents, Georgia political leaders, and members of the judiciary and the press, and relates to public issues and activities in Congress during Griggs's term of office, 1896-1910, as United States representative from Georgia. Among the subjects discussed are elections and candidates, rural mail service, railroad rates, tariff reduction, national forests, farming, Prohibition, the Panama Canal, and appropriations for the Post Office Department and the Army. Also included is correspondence with overseers of Griggs's farm at Shellman, Ga.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1894-1913 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
This series contains primarily political correspondence while Griggs was a United States Representative from 1896-1910. It includes correspondence with constituents, Georgia political figures, members of the Georgia judiciary, members of the press, fellow congressmen, and prominant figures in national politics. Topics include candidates and elections, rural mail service in Ga., railroad rates, tariff reduction, national forests in the South, farming, prohibition, Panama Canal, appropriations for the Post Office Department and the Army, and various congressional matters. Personal correspondence consists chiefly of letters between Griggs and his overseers about his farm at Shellman, Ga.
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Series 2. Political and Business Papers.
Arrangement: alphabetical by type.
Materials in this series include non-correspondence political and business papers of Griggs, such as bills, certificates, petitions, endorsements, resolutions, and financial papers.
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Series 3. Speeches, 1907-1910 and undated.
This series contains notes and drafts of speeches given by Griggs, as well as printed copies of them.
| Folder 22-35 |
Drafts, undated #00838, Series: "3. Speeches, 1907-1910 and undated." Folder 22-35Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35 |
| Folder 36 |
Printed, 1907-1908, 1910 #00838, Series: "3. Speeches, 1907-1910 and undated." Folder 36 |
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Series 4. Clippings, 1879-1913 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
Clippings primarily document Congressional activities and Griggs's role in them.
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Series 5. Volumes, 1892-1910.
Volumes contain newspaper clippings relating to politics and the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906, as well as three printed volumes relating to Congress.
| Folder 72 |
#00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 72See Oversize Volume SV-838/1 |
| Oversize Volume SV-838/1 |
Volume 1 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." SV-838/1Pages from the Congressional Record pasted in a catalog of electric appliances, 1898-1907. |
| Folder 73 |
Volume 2 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 73Clippings pertaining to campaigns, speeches and activities of Griggs in Congress, 1898. |
| Folder 74 |
Volume 3 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 74Clippings pertaining to the Democratic Congressional Committee and Presidential Campaign of 1906. |
| Folder 75 |
Enclosures from volume 3 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 75 |
| Folder 76 |
Volume 4 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 76Miscellaneous clippings. |
| Folder 77 |
Volume 5 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 77"Newspaper Clippings Relating to 59th Congress, 1st Session," 1906. |
| Folder 78 |
Volume 6 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 78Newspaper clippings about the Atlanta Race Riot, 1906. |
| Folder 79 |
Enclosures from volume 6 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 79 |
| Folder 80 |
Volume 7 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 80Democratic Campaign Book, 1906. |
| Folder 81 |
Volume 8 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 81A Vest-Pocket Directory of the House of Representatives, 59th Congress, 2nd Session, 1906. |
| Folder 82-83 |
Volume 9 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 82-83Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives adn the Senate of the U.S., 61st Congress, 2nd Session, 1910. Folder 82Folder 83 |
| Folder 84 |
#00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." Folder 84See Oversize Volume SV-383/10 |
| Oversize Volume SV-838-10 |
Volume 10 #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." SV-838-10Scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to Griggs' career as a judge and lawyer, his campaign for Congress, and poems. 1892, 1896. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-838/1b |
Commissions and diploma #00838, Series: "5. Volumes, 1892-1910." OPF-838/1b |
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Series 6. Pictures.
| Folder 85 |
#00838, Series: "6. Pictures." Folder 85See Image Folder PF-838/1-7 |
| Image P-838/1 |
Picture #00838, Series: "6. Pictures." P-838/1Postcard photograph of S. A. Roddenbery, 1908. |
| Image P-838/2-3 |
Picture #00838, Series: "6. Pictures." P-838/2-3Signed photograph of James M. Griggs, and 1 duplicate copy. P-838/2P-838/3 |
| Image P-838/4-7 |
Picture #00838, Series: "6. Pictures." P-838/4-7Signed portrait of James M. Griggs, and 3 duplicate copies. P-838/4P-838/5P-838/6P-838/7 |
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Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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