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Abstract
Papers of Lewis Summers, a lawyer, businessman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1817-1818, delegate to the Virginia
Constitutional Convention, 1829-1830, and his brother George W., a lawyer in Charleston, a judge, a member of the House of
Delegates, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, the U.S. House of Representatives, 1841-1845, a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention
of 1850, candidate for governor in 1851, member of the 1861 Peace Convention, and delegate to the Richmond Secession Convention,
1861. Correspondence between the brothers is for the years 1818-1843. There are also business, legal, and family papers, speeches,
and an autograph book of George W. while a student at the University of Virginia, 1854-1857. Correspondents include George
Carlisle, James Craik, James M. Laidley, and Luke Wilcox. Persons mentioned or commented on include John Q. Adams, John C.
Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Henry Clay, Thomas R. Dew, Andrew Donnally, Millard Fillmore, John Floyd, William H. Harrison, Andrew
Jackson, the Ruffner family, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster, and Henry A. Wise.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Lewis (1778-1843) and George W. (1804-1868) Summers Papers, A&M 1791,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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