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Brent, Andrew J., papers A Guide to the Andrew J. Brent papers, 1960-1988 M 281 M 281

A Guide to the Andrew J. Brent papers, 1960-1988 M 281 M 281


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Repository
VCU James Branch Cabell Library
Identification
M 281
Title
Andrew J. Brent papers 1960-1988
Quantity
11.7 Linear Feet
Creator
Brent, Andrew J, 1919-1996
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

No restrictions on use.

Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

Preferred Citation

Box/folder, Andrew J. Brent Papers, M 281, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell, Virginia Commonwealth University

Acquisition Information

The collection was donated to the department by Mr. Brent in several installments.

Biographical / Historical

Andrew J. Brent was a Richmond attorney who was active in community affairs in the city. He was also former director, general counsel and secretary of Media General Inc., the firm that owns the Richmond Times- Dispatch and other media outlets in the southeast. "He was instrumental in the establishment [in 1969] of Media General," said J. Steward Bryan III, publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman of Media General Inc. "In the mid-1960s, he was architect of the charter and by-laws of our company. The latter years of his life were devoted to metropolitan Richmond. He will be sorely missed, but his accomplishments will live on for decades to come." A native of Richmond, Brent was born in 1919. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and graduated from its law school in 1941. Brent served as a naval intelligence officer during World War II. He began his law practice in Richmond in 1946 and became partner with the firm that became Christian, Barton, Epps, Brent & Chappell. He was active in community service in Richmond for four decades -- including work in the 1960s as chairman of the Greater Metropolitan Association, an organization formed to promote a Richmond-Henrico merger. In the 1970s he was a member of VCU's Board of Visitors (appointed in 1968, the year the university was founded) and president of the Downtown Development Unlimited, an organization that promoted private investment in downtown Richmond. He also served as director and president of the Metropolitan Richmond Chamber of Commerce. He was also active in his church, St. James Episcopal Church in Richmond, serving terms as vestryman and warden. He died June 8, 1996.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of documents concerning Downtown Development Unlimited and Project One, Henrico County Annexation, RPI Foundation, RMA, Richmond Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Metropolitan Committee. The collection dates from the early 1960s through the early 1980s.Eight volume bound set of court proceedings of the 1941 Annexation of Henrico by Richmond transferred to book collection.

Arrangement

The arrangement follows the donors folder endings and has been grouped according to general topic and alphabetically therein. Series I--Downtown Development Unlimited (n.d., 1975-1987) Subseries A--Project One (n.d., 1971-1982); Series II--Richmond Metropolitan Authority (n.d., 1967-1988); Series III--Annexation of Henrico (n.d., 1961-1970); Series IV--Richmond Chamber of Commerce (n.d., 1960-1976); Series V--Richmond Professional Institute Foundation (n.d., 1970-1976); Series VI--Greater Metropolitan Committee (n.d., 1960-1961)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Annexation (Municipal government) -- Virginia -- Richmond.
  • Brent, Andrew J. -- Archives
  • Civic leaders -- Archives -- Virginia -- Richmond
  • Downtown Development Unlimited (Richmond, Va.)
  • Greater Metropolitan Committee (Richmond, Va.)
  • Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
  • Lawyers -- Archives -- Virginia -- Richmond
  • Richmond Chamber of Commerce (Richmond, Va.)
  • Richmond Metropolitan Authority
  • Richmond Professional Institute Foundation

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Brent, Andrew J, 1919-1996
  • Brent, Andrew J. -- Archives
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Henrico County (Va.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Container List

Series I--Downtown Development Unlimited, n.d.
1975-1987
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Agendas (Miscellaneous)
    1975-1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Brochures
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Central Richmond Association
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Commission minutes
    1975-1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence and General File 1
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence and General File 2
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence and General File 1
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence and General File 2
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Credits-Disbursements
    1977-1984
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Development Packaging Contracts
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Directors, Officers and Executive Committee
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Financial Advisory Committee
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1978
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1979
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1980
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1981
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    General and Correspondence
    1982
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    HINES
    1976-1978
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Notices
    1975-1981
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Orientation Mtg., Articles of Inc., Bylaws of Central Atlanta Progress, Inc.
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Oxford Group
    1978-1979
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Penitentiary Removal
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Penitentiary (State) Study
    1983-1987
  • SubSeries A--Project One
    • Mixed Materials box: 2
      Affirmative Action
      1981
    • Mixed Materials box: 2
      Background and Description of Project One, Proposals and Plans (4 files)
    • Mixed Materials box: 2
      Background information on downtown development in other cities, developers' proposals and brochures newspaper and magazine articles
    • Mixed Materials box: 2
      Background proposals, brochures, newspaper and magazine articles (5 files)
    • Mixed Materials box: 2
      Best Products
      1978
    • Mixed Materials box: 2
      Bond Validation
      1978-1979
    • Mixed Materials box: 2
      City Lease
      1977
    • Mixed Materials box: 2
      Correspondence and General (1)
      1977
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Correspondence and General (2)
      1977
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Correspondence and General
      1978
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Correspondence and General
      1979
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Correspondence and General
      1980
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Correspondence and General
      1981-1982
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Franklin Federal Parking Garage
      1980
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Hilton Hotels
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Legal Documents and Memoranda
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Legal Documents and Memoranda
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Legal Documents and Memoranda
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Legal Documents and Memoranda
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Office Building
      1979-1980
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Office Building Lease Backup, n.d.
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Parking
      1981
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Philip Morris
      1979
    • Mixed Materials box: 3
      Proposals and Plans (3 files)
    • Mixed Materials box: 4
      Proposals and Plans (2 files)
    • Mixed Materials box: 4
      Presentation, n.d.
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Series II--Richmond Metropolitan Authority
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Annual Report
    1986
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Annual Report
    1987
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Annual Report
    1988
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Correspondence No. 6 (6 files)
    1967-1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Downtown Expressway No. 98
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Estimated revenues Alternative Tollway Systems
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Finances #33 (4 files)
    1967-1973
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Historic Sites--National Register: James River and Kanawha Canal
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Historic Sites--National Register: Treatises
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    James River and Kanawha Canal Co.
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Acts of Assembly
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    C and O Plat
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    City Baseline Plats
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Reports and Papers
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond-Petersburg Plat
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Title Notes
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Land Acquisition-Applicability of SS. 8-673 to Condemnation Procedures
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Landscaping Correspondence
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Meadow Street Extension #72
    1972-1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Correspondence
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Files 1-4
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Metropolitan Richmond...Location Factors, n.d.
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Minutes, Notices and Agenda (4 files)
    1966-1974
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Official Statement 38 (2 files)
    1967-1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Original Legal Documents
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Plan of Government for the Richmond Region A Survey Report
    1959
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Reports and Publicity #17 (4 files)
    1964-1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Richmond Expressway System Biennium Inspection Report
    1984, 1986, 1988
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Richmond First Club (2 files)
    1966-1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike Authority (4 files)
    1964-1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Powhite Extension #83
    1973-1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Proposed Richmond Expressway System Traffic and Revenue s
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Richmond Streetscape, n.d.
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Shuttle Bus #69
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Time Schedules
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Western Expressway and Belt Line River Crossing Engineering Report
    1963
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Series III--Annexation of Henrico
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Active/Non-Active Workers and Volunteers
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Annexation Suit
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Biographies
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Chamber of Commerce
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    City Exhibits
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    City Exhibits
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Correspondence
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Criticisms
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Dawson, John Constitutional Amendment #51
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Editorials, merger facts
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    General Information
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Greater Metropolitan Committee
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    LeGrand, J.R. Testimony
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Map Showing Acreage
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Miscellaneous, n.d.
    1963
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Motion to Reconsider Metes and Bounds of Territory Pleadings
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Posters, Flyers and bumper stickers
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Questions asked of Mr. Browning and Mr. Dunn at Brookland Civic Center
    11/1/61
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Schools, John A. Testimony
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Smith, John W. Testimony
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    State Senators, Delegates and Legislators
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Suit brought by Independent Taxpayers Assn.
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Tax Effect of Merger
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Trapnell, William H. Testimony
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Witnesses (2 files)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Women's Division Citizens for Merger Research Committee
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Series IV--Richmond Chamber of Commerce
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Bulletins-Notices (2 files)
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Correspondence
    1965-1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Correspondence (2 files)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Correspondence
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    General (4 files)
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Industrial Financing Committee
    1960-1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Minutes--Executive Committee and Board
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Richmond Chamber of Commerce (3 files)
    1969-1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Headquarters Committee
    1976-1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Nominating Committee
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Post Opinion
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Route 64, n.d.
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Transportation Committee
    1973-1974
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Series V--Richmond Professional Institute Foundation
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    RPI Foundation (5 files)
    1970-1976
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Series VI--Greater Metropolitan Committee
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Agenda
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Clean Up, n.d.
    1962
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Continuation
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Correspondence and Miscellaneous (3 files)
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    General Information (2 files)
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Miscellaneous (5 files)
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Records Volume
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Richmond-Henrico Merger Committee
    1960-1961
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