Inventory of the John Hosea Kerr Papers, 1923-1952
Collection Number 3358
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Kerr, John Hosea, 1873-1958.
- Title
- John Hosea Kerr Papers, 1923-1952.
- Call Number
- 3358
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 14,000 items (18.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the John Hosea Kerr Papers, #3358, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Agriculture and state--United States--History--20th century.
- Cotton growing--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century.
- Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--20th century.
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- John H. Kerr Reservoir (Va. and N.C.)--History.
- Kerr, John Hosea, 1873-1958.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-
- Peanuts--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century.
- Subversive activities--United States--History--20th century.
- Tobacco--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century.
- United States. Congress. House.
- World War, 1939-1945--Finance--United States.
Biographical Note
United States Congressman from Warrenton, N.C., representing the 2nd district (northeastern North Carolina), 1923-1953.
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Congressional files of Kerr, documenting his involvement in legislative actions concerning cotton, peanuts, and tobacco farming. He was vice-chairman of the subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee that handled military appropriations during World War II, chairman for the Subcommittee on Subversive Organizations, delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1932 and 1940, and promoter of the Roanoke River reservoir project named for him.