Inventory of the Richmond Pearson Papers, 1852-1940
Collection Number 3647
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Pearson, Richmond, 1852-1923.
- Title
- Richmond Pearson Papers, 1852-1940 (bulk 1872-1912).
- Call Number
- 3647
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 350 items (1.0 linear foot).
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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 Richmond Pearson Papers, #3647, 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.
- 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.
Related Material
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Richmond Mumford Pearson Papers (#584), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biographical Note
Pearson, lawyer of Asheville, N.C., was 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.
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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.