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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Richmond Pearson Papers, #3647, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available of papers related to politics, 1895-1902.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1963

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, April 2011; Nancy Kaiser, May 2021

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Dueling--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Fences--Law and legislation--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Pearson, Richmond Mumford, 1805-1878.
• Pearson, Richmond, 1852-1923.
• Political campaigns--North Carolina.
• Populism--North Carolina--History.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1912.
• Progressive Party (1912)
• Progressivism (United States politics)
• Republican Party (N.C.)--History.
• Scrapbooks--North Carolina.

• Richmond Mumford Pearson Papers (#584), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Richmond Pearson of Asheville, N.C., was a lawyer; United States consul in Belgium; Democratic North Carolina representative, 1884-1886; Republican United States representative, 1895-1899 and 1900-1901; consul in Genoa, Italy; minister to Persia, Greece, and Montenegro; and supporter of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

The collection contains papers, chiefly 1872-1912, pertaining to Pearson's public activities, especially congressional campaigns, Republican-Populist fusion, and the Progressive campaign, with little on legislative and foreign service. Also included are Pearson's accounts as executor of the estate of his father, Richmond Mumford Pearson (1805-1878); and scrapbooks of clippings relating to a controversy over a stock and fence law and challenges to duels, and on Pearson's campaigns and legislative service.

• Pictures (PF-3647/1)
• Extra-oversize papers (XOPF-3647/1)
• Microfilm (M-3647/1)