2.5 Linear Feet, 2 ft. 6 in. (5 document cases, 5 in. each); (5 in. of loose papers)
Creator
Hallanan, Walter S. (Walter Simms), 1890-1962
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed material of the Republican national committeeman, state political
leader, and president of the Plymouth Oil Company. Subjects include Republican national conventions, 1928-1960; state and
local politics, 1919-1961; National Petroleum Council; Plymouth and related oil companies; Republican rejection of the League
of Nations; and Hallanan's role as temporary chairman of the 1952 Republican National Convention. Correspondents include Michael
L. Benedum, John W. Bricker, John J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leonard W. Hall, Warren
G. Harding, Henry D. Hatfield, Will H. Hays, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Jr., Arthur Krock, Alfred M. Landon, Louis Johnson,
William E. Jenner, Henry R. Luce, Theodore R. McKeldin, William C. Marland, Richard Nixon, Chapman Revercomb, Harold E. Stassen,
Harold E. Talbot, Earl Warren, and Sinclair Weeks. Subjects include the controversy over the review policies and contents
of the West Virginia GUIDE; dispute with the Surplus Commodities Corporation over the distribution of food to striking miners
in the southern coalfields, 1939; the H.G. Kump - M.M. Neely primary contest, 1942; support for Rush D. Holt's isolationist
policies; the gubernatorial race, 1940; the contest between the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee and the Weirton Steel
Employees' Security League, 1937; Holt's opposition to the "Little Hatch Bill"; the establishment of a merit council in the
Department of Public Assistance, 1939-1940; and Holt's presidential address before the West Virginia Bar Association, 1944.
Correspondents include John J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, Rush D. Holt, George W. Johnson, Paul V. McNutt, Matthew M. Neely,
Milo Perkins, Lee Pressman, Jennings Randolph, Chapman Revercomb, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William H. Vanderbilt.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Walter Simms Hallanan (1890-1962) Papers, A&M 1659, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.