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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. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021
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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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.
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to TopArrangement: 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.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1894-1899 |
Folder 2 |
1900-1902 |
Folder 3 |
1903-1904 |
Folder 4 |
1905 |
Folder 5 |
1906 |
Folder 6-7
Folder 6Folder 7 |
1907 |
Folder 8-10
Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10 |
1908 |
Folder 11 |
1909-1910, 1913 |
Folder 12 |
Undated and fragments |
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.
Folder 13 |
Broadsides |
Folder 14 |
Certificates |
Folder 15 |
Congressional bills and record |
Folder 16 |
Directories and pamphlets |
Folder 17 |
Deed (James Griggs), 1836 |
Folder 18 |
Financial papers |
Folder 19 |
Miscellaneous items |
Folder 20 |
Petitions, endorsements, and resolutions |
Folder 21 |
Programs |
This series contains notes and drafts of speeches given by Griggs, as well as printed copies of them.
Folder 22-35
Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35 |
Drafts, undated |
Folder 36 |
Printed, 1907-1908, 1910 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Clippings primarily document Congressional activities and Griggs's role in them.
Folder 37 |
1879 |
Folder 38 |
1896 |
Folder 39 |
1897 |
Folder 40 |
1898 |
Folder 41 |
1899 |
Folder 42 |
1900 |
Folder 43-44
Folder 43Folder 44 |
1901 |
Folder 45-54
Folder 45Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52Folder 53Folder 54 |
1902 |
Folder 55 |
1903 |
Folder 56-57
Folder 56Folder 57 |
1904 |
Folder 58 |
1905 |
Folder 59 |
1906 |
Folder 60 |
1907 |
Folder 61 |
1908 |
Folder 62 |
1909 |
Folder 63-64
Folder 63Folder 64 |
1910 |
Folder 65 |
1911 |
Folder 66 |
1913 |
Folder 67-71
Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69Folder 70Folder 71 |
Undated |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-838/1a |
Newspaper clippings & pamphlets |
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 |
Folder number not used |
Oversize Volume SV-838/1 |
Volume 1Pages from the Congressional Record pasted in a catalog of electric appliances, 1898-1907. |
Folder 73 |
Volume 2Clippings pertaining to campaigns, speeches and activities of Griggs in Congress, 1898. |
Folder 74 |
Volume 3Clippings pertaining to the Democratic Congressional Committee and Presidential Campaign of 1906. |
Folder 75 |
Enclosures from volume 3 |
Folder 76 |
Volume 4Miscellaneous clippings. |
Folder 77 |
Volume 5"Newspaper Clippings Relating to 59th Congress, 1st Session," 1906. |
Folder 78 |
Volume 6Newspaper clippings about the Atlanta Race Riot, 1906. |
Folder 79 |
Enclosures from volume 6 |
Folder 80 |
Volume 7Democratic Campaign Book, 1906. |
Folder 81 |
Volume 8A Vest-Pocket Directory of the House of Representatives, 59th Congress, 2nd Session, 1906. |
Folder 82-83
Folder 82Folder 83 |
Volume 9Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives adn the Senate of the U.S., 61st Congress, 2nd Session , 1910. |
Folder 84 |
Folder number not used |
Oversize Volume SV-838/10 |
Volume 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 |
Folder 85 |
Folder number not used |
Image P-838/1 |
Postcard photograph of S. A. Roddenbery, 1908 |
Image P-838/2-3
P-838/2P-838/3 |
Signed photograph of James M. Griggs, and 1 duplicate copy |
Image P-838/4-7
P-838/4P-838/5P-838/6P-838/7 |
Signed portrait of James M. Griggs, and 3 duplicate copies |