Inventory of the Ted Dalton Papers 1933-1978, 1952-1959 Dalton, Ted, 1933-1987 Mss. 81 D17

Inventory of the Ted Dalton Papers 1933-1978, 1952-1959

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Collection Number Mss. 81 D17


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Repository
Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Collection number
Mss. 81 D17
Title
Ted Dalton Papers, 1933-1978, 1952-1959.
Extent
14 boxes.
Creators
J. Lindsay(James Lindsay) Almond, Howard Baker, Ezra Taft Benson, Harry Flood Byrd, Ted Dalton, Colgate W.(Colgate Whitehead) Darden, Dwight D.(Dwight David) Eisenhower, Gerald R. Ford, Mills E.(Mills Edwin) Godwin, A. Linwood(Abner Linwood)Holton, A.E. Dick Howard, Richard M.(Richard Milhous) Nixon, Davis Young Paschall, Richard H.(Richard Harding) Poff, Lewis F. Powell, Nelson A.(Nelson Aldrich) Rockefeller, Thomas B.(Thomas Bahnson) Stanley.
Language
English
Abstract
Correspondence, speeches, news clippings, photographs, recordings, reels of film, chiefly 1952-1959, of Ted Dalton (1901-1989). Virginia state senator, 1944-1959; Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, 1953, 1957; and appointed as U. S. district judge of the Western District of Virginia, 1959.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Publication Rights/ Restrictions on Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Ted Dalton Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

Gift: 6 cartons, 5/25/1981.
Gift: 4 boxes, 1/11/1982.
Gift: 50 items, 4/26/1982.

Biographical/Historical Information

Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Maritn Dalton. he received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary as well as his law degree. Dalton was Commonwealth's Attorney for Radford, Virginia and state senator from 1944-1960. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor in 1953 and 1957. Dalton was appointed federal judge for the Western District of Virginia. His adopted son was John N. Dalton who served as governor of Virginia. Ted Dalton died 30 October 1989.

Scope and Content Information

Papers, 1933-1978, of Ted Dalton, Virginia state senator, 1944-1959; Republican candidate for governor of Virginia in 1953 and 1957; and U.S. District judge for the Western district of Virginia. Includes correspondence, speeches, news clippings, photographs, recordings, reels of film and legal opinions.

Subjects covered include Republican Party politics, the Virginia General Assembly, highways,compulsory automobile insurance, segregation, the Gray Commission Report (Commission on Public Education), the College of William and Mary, and Dalton's appointment as federal judge.

Prominent correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, Howard Baker, Ezra T. Benson, Harry F. Byrd, Sr., Harry F. Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton, Colgate W. Darden, Dwight D. Eisenhower,Gerald R. Ford, Mills E. Godwin, Albertis S. Harrison, A. Linwood Holton, J. Edgar Hoover, A. E. Dick Howard, Richard Nixon, Davis Y. Paschall, Richard H. Poff, Lewis F. Powell, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens, William M. Tuck, and Edward E. Willey.

Arrangement

Arrangement

Each of the boxes in the collection is arranged chronologically by date. Each box or group of boxes included in one series is divided into four basic subseries,
1. Correspondence,
2. Speeches,
3. News Clippings,
4. Other Papers.

Organization

This collection is arranged into 11 Series:
1. Papers,
2. Papers,
3. Gubernatorial Papers,
4. Papers,
5. Papers,
6. Papers,
7. Papers,
8. Papers,
9. Federal Judgeship,
10. Papers,
11. Photographs, Videotape, Etc.

Index Terms

    Persons:

  • Almond, J. Lindsay(James Lindsay), 1898-1986.
  • Baker, Howard.
  • Benson, Ezra Taft.
  • Byrd, Harry Flood, 1914-
  • Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887- 1966.
  • Darden, Colgate W.(Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981.
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D.(Dwight David), 1890-1969.
  • Ford, Gerald R., 1913-
  • Godwin, Mills E.(Mills Edwin), 1914-
  • Holton, A. Linwood(Abner Linwood), 1923-
  • Howard, A.E. Dick.
  • Nixon, Richard M .(Richard Milhous), 1913-
  • Paschall, Davis Young, 1911-
  • Poff, Richard H.(Richard Harding), 1923-
  • Powell, Lewis F., 1907-
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A.(Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.
  • Stanley, Thomas B.(Thomas Bahnson), 1890-1970.
  • Virginia. Governor(1978-1982:Dalton)
  • Subjects:

  • College of William and Mary--History--20th century.
  • Insurance, Automobile--Virginia.
  • Patronage, Political--United States.
  • Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
  • Roads-- Virginia.
  • Segregation in education--Virginia.

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • A. Linwood(Abner Linwood)Holton,
  • A.E. Dick Howard,
  • Almond, J. Lindsay(James Lindsay), 1898-1986.
  • Baker, Howard.
  • Benson, Ezra Taft.
  • Byrd, Harry Flood, 1914-
  • Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887- 1966.
  • Colgate W.(Colgate Whitehead) Darden,
  • Darden, Colgate W.(Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981.
  • Davis Young Paschall,
  • Dwight D.(Dwight David) Eisenhower,
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D.(Dwight David), 1890-1969.
  • Ezra Taft Benson,
  • Ford, Gerald R., 1913-
  • Gerald R. Ford,
  • Godwin, Mills E.(Mills Edwin), 1914-
  • Harry Flood Byrd,
  • Holton, A. Linwood(Abner Linwood), 1923-
  • Howard Baker,
  • Howard, A.E. Dick.
  • J. Lindsay(James Lindsay) Almond,
  • Lewis F. Powell,
  • Mills E.(Mills Edwin) Godwin,
  • Nelson A.(Nelson Aldrich) Rockefeller,
  • Nixon, Richard M .(Richard Milhous), 1913-
  • Paschall, Davis Young, 1911-
  • Poff, Richard H.(Richard Harding), 1923-
  • Powell, Lewis F., 1907-
  • Richard H.(Richard Harding) Poff,
  • Richard M.(Richard Milhous) Nixon,
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A.(Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.
  • Stanley, Thomas B.(Thomas Bahnson), 1890-1970.
  • Ted Dalton,
  • Thomas B.(Thomas Bahnson) Stanley.
  • Virginia. Governor(1978-1982:Dalton)

Components List

Miscellaneous Papers, 1933-1967.
Box 1
Series 1: Miscellaneous Papers
  • Box 1
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1933-1959.
    • Box-folder 1:6
      Correspondence with T. X. Parsons, 1941.
    • Box-folder 1:16
      Correspondence: Republican Primary: with Frank McWane, and Earl Lutz, 1949.
    • Box-folder 1:22
      Correspondence, 1953.

      Correspondents include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Harry F. Byrd.

    • Box-folder 1:24
      Congratulatory Letters, 1953.

      Includes Tennessee Governor Frank Clement, and Dick Davis.

    • Box-folder 1:25
      Correspondence, January 2-February 12, 1954.

      Correspondents include Walter S. Newman, and Richard H. Poff.

    • Box-folder 1:26
      Correspondence with Graham Claytor, February 13-17 1954.
    • Box-folder 1:28
      Correspondence with Governor Thomas Stanley, Judge Johnpaul, and Harold Stassen, 1956.
    • Box-folder 1:32
      Correspondence, 1959.
    • Box-folder 1:34
      Correspondence, 1963.

      Includes President Eisenhower's Inaugural Prayer.

  • Box-folder 1:9
    Subseries 2: Speech, 1943.

    Speech by Judge Hopkins.

  • Box 1
    Subseries 3: Newspaper Clippings, 1933-1959.
    • Box-folder 1:5
      News Clippings, 1933.
    • Box-folder 1:7
      News Clippings: Ted Dalton elected head of Bar Association, 1942.
    • Box-folder 1:10
      News Clippings, 1944.
    • Box-folder 1:11
      News Clippings, 1944.
    • Box-folder 1:12
      News Clippings, 1945.
    • Box-folder 1:13
      News Clippings, 1946.
    • Box-folder 1:14
      News Clippings, 1947.
    • Box-folder 1:15
      News Clippings, 1948.
    • Box-folder 1:18
      News Clippings, 1951.
    • Box-folder 1:19
      News Clippings, 1951.
    • Box-folder 1:20
      News Clippings - National Campaign, 1952.
    • Box-folder 1:21
      News Clippings, 1953.
    • Box-folder 1:23
      News Clippings - Gubernatorial Campaign, 1953.
    • Box-folder 1:29
      News clippings - General Assembly, 1958.
    • Box-folder 1:30
      News Clippings - Doings at the State Capitol, 1958.
    • Box-folder 1:35
      News Clippings, 1967.
  • Box 1
    Subseries 4: Other Papers, 1933-1959.
    • Box-folder 1:1
      Miscellaneous Papers.

      Invitation to President Eisenhower's birthday party. Congressional Record, clipping announcing Ted Dalton's honorary LL.D. from William and Mary.

    • Box-folder 1:2
      Extra Copies of campaign speeches, and related news clippings, 1952, 1956-1957.
    • Box-folder 1:3
      Personal items such as thank you notes and postcards, 1954, 1957, 1958.
    • Box-folder 1:4
      Undated Papers, n.d.

      Including photos, news clippings, and legal opinions.

    • Box-folder 1:8
      State Senate Bills, 1944.
    • Box-folder 1:17
      Virginia State Senate Bills, 1950.
    • Box-folder 1:27
      Legislative Papers, 1956.
    • Box-folder 1:31
      Report of the President of William and Mary, 1958.
    • Box-folder 1:33
      Republican Gubernatorial Candidate, 1961.
Papers, 1952.
Box 2
Series 2: Papers
  • Box-folder 2:1
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1952.

    Correspondents include A. S. Harrison, Jr., and Theodore R. McKeldin.

  • Box-folder 2:2
    Subseries 2: Speeches: Gubernatorial Nomination, 1952.
  • Box-folder 2:4-12
    Subseries 3: News Clippings, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:3
      News Clippings: Presidential Campaign, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:4
      News Clippings: State and National Campaigns, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:5
      News Clippings: State and National Campaigns, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:6
      News Clippings, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:7
      News Clippings: Republican National Convention, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:8
      News Clippings, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:9
      News Clippings: Republican National Convention, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:10
      News Clippings: Republican National Convention, 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:11
      News Clippings, February 1952.
    • Box-folder 2:12
      News Clippings: National Republican Campaign, April-November 1952.
Gubernatorial Papers, 1953-1957.
Box 3-5
Series 3: Gubernatorial Papers
  • Box 3-5
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:1
      Correspondence: Agricultural Drought Relief, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:2
      Correspondence: Campaign for Governor, 1953.

      Correspondents include Edward E. Willey, Thomas B. Stanley.

    • Box-folder 3:3
      Correspondence: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:4
      Correspondence: Campaign for Governor, 1953.

      Correspondents include Richard H. Poff, Harry F. Byrd.

    • Box-folder 3:5
      Correspondence: Campaign for Governor, April-October 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:6
      Correspondence: Campaign for governor, November-December 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:1
      Correspondence: Campaigns: correspondents include Lewis F. Powell, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:2
      Correspondence, July-December 1953.

      Correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond.

    • Box-folder 5:4
      Correspondence: Industrial Development, and Campaign, July-October 1953.

      Correspondents include Ezra T. Benson.

    • Box-folder 5:7
      Gubernatorial Campaign: Congratulatory Letters, 1953.

      Correspondents include A. Linwood Holton.

  • Box 3-5
    Subseries 2: Speeches, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:7
      Speeches: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:2
      Speeches: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:8
      Gubernatorial Campaign: Speeches, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:14
      Gubernatorial Campaign: Speeches, 1953.

      Includes nomination acceptance speech.

    • Box-folder 5:15
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1953.

      Re: mentally ill, Two-Party System, tuberculosis.

    • Box-folder 5:18
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:19
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:20
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1953.
  • Box 3-4
    Subseries 3: News Clippings, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:8
      News Clippings, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:9
      News Clippings, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:10
      News Clippings, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:11
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:12
      News Clippings, November 4-17 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:13
      News Clippings; Drought in Virginia, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:14
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:15
      News Clippings, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:16
      News Clippings: Education, 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:17
      News Clippings, October 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:18
      News Clippings, September 23-30 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:19
      News Clippings, September 2-October 25 1953.
    • Box-folder 3:20
      News Clippings, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:3
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor - Highway Plan, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:4
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:5
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:6
      News Clippings: Vote fraud, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:7
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:8
      News Clippings, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:9
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:10
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor - Health Care, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:11
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, September 2-October 25 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:12
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, September 1-19 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:13
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:14
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:15
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.

      Re: Thomas Stanley.

    • Box-folder 4:16
      News Clippings: Campaign for Governor, 1953.
  • Box 4-5
    Subseries 4: Other Gubernatorial Papers, 1953.
    • Box-folder 4:1
      Education in Virginia, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:3
      Gubernatorial Campaign: Education in Virginia, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:5
      Gubernatorial Campaign: Education in Virginia, July-September 1953.

      Includes news clippings.

    • Box-folder 5:6
      General Assembly Legislation, 1953-1954.
    • Box-folder 5:9
      Gubernatorial Campaign, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:10
      Gubernatorial Campaign Literature, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:11
      Gubernatorial Campaign Literature, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:12
      Gubernatorial Campaign: Virginia Highways, 1953.
    • Box-folder 5:13
      Gubernatorial Campaign: Virginia Highways, 1953.

      Correspondents include A. Linwood Holton.

    • Box-folder 5:16
      Campaign Briefs, 1953.

      Re: highways and convict labor.

    • Box-folder 5:17
      Source Materials on Health Care, 1953-1954.
Papers, 1954.
Box 6
Series 4: Papers
  • Box-folder 6:1-7
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:1
      Correspondence, February 1954.

      Correspondents include Clifton A. Woodrum, Jr.

    • Box-folder 6:2
      Correspondence.

      Correspondents include Richard Poff.

    • Box-folder 6:3
      Correspondence, April-December 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:4
      Correspondence, 1954.

      Re: State Senate and Labor Law.

    • Box-folder 6:5
      Correspondence, January-July 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:6
      Correspondence, March 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:7
      Correspondence, March 1954.
  • Box 6
    Subseries 2: Speeches, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:10
      Speeches, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:11
      Speeches: National Election, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:14
      Speeches: General Assembly, 1954.
  • Box 6
    Subseries 4: News Clippings, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:13
      News Clippings, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:15
      News Clippings: Highways, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:16
      News Clippings, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:17
      News Clippings: General Assembly, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:18
      News Clippings: Dalton's doings at the Capitol, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:19
      News Clippings: General Assembly, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:20
      News Clippings, 1954.
  • Box-folder 6
    Subseries 4: Other Materials, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:8
      Materials relating to the General Assembly, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:9
      Materials relating to Compulsory Automobile Insurance, 1954.
    • Box-folder 6:12
      Republican National Campaign Relation, 1954.
Papers, 1946-1960.
Box 7
Series 5: Papers
  • Box-folder 7
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1946-1960.
    • Box-folder 7:9
      Correspondence: Republican National Finance Committee, 1955.

      Correspondents include Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

    • Box-folder 7:10
      Correspondence: Republican National Finance Committee, 1955.

      Correspondents include Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

    • Box-folder 7:11
      Correspondence (congratulatory letters): Segregation of Public Schools, 1955.

      Correspondents include Gov. Thomas Stanley.

    • Box-folder 7:12
      Correspondence: State Senate, 1955.

      Correspondents include Mamie Eisenhower.

    • Box-folder 7:16
      Correspondence: Gray Commission Report, integration of schools, 1955.

      Correspondents include Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and Gov. Thomas Stanley.

    • Box-folder 7:17
      Correspondence with President Eisenhower, 1955.

      Includes acceptance speech for GOP nomination at state senator.

    • Box-folder 7:19
      Correspondence: Gray Commission Report, November-December 1955.
  • Box-folder 7
    Subseries 2: Speeches, 1946-1960.
    • Box-folder 7:1
      Speech: School Integration; news clippings, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:3
      Speeches: Highways, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:5
      Speeches: School integration, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:6
      Speeches, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:7
      Speeches, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:18
      Speeches and Correspondence: Public Education.
  • Box-folder 7
    Subseries 3: News Clippings, 1955-1956.
    • Box-folder 7:13
      News Clippings, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:14
      News Clippings, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:15
      News Clippings, 1955.

      Includes Gray Commission Report.

    • Box-folder 7:20
      News Clippings, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:21
      News Clippings, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:22
      News Clippings, 1956.
    • Box-folder 7:23
      News Clippings, 1955-1956.
  • Box 7
    Subseries 4: Other Papers, 1946-1960.
    • Box-folder 7:2
      Acts of General Assembly, extra session, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:4
      State Campaign, 1955.
    • Box-folder 7:8
      Publications, 1946-1960.
Papers, 1955-1957.
Box 8
Series 6: Papers
  • Box 7
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:2
      Correspondence, 1956.

      Re: Integration.

    • Box-folder 8:2a
      Correspondence and Speeches, 1956.

      Re: Integration.

    • Box-folder 8:3
      Correspondence, 1956.

      Re: Integration.

    • Box-folder 8:4
      Correspondence, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:5
      Correspondence: Republican National Convention, 1956.
  • Box 7
    Subseries 2: Speeches, 1955-1957.
    • Box-folder 8:7
      Speeches, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:13
      Speeches, 1956.

      Re: Integration.

    • Box-folder 8:14
      Speeches, Correspondence, and News Clippings, 1956.

      Re: Presidential Election Campaign.

  • Box 7
    Subseries 3: News Clippings, 1955-1957.
    • Box-folder 8:11
      News Clippings, 1956, n.d.
    • Box-folder 8:12
      News Clippings, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:15
      News Clippings, 1956.

      Re: Segregation, National Republican Convention, Republican Campaign in Virginia.

    • Box-folder 8:16
      News Clippings, July-December 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:17
      News Clippings, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:18
      News Clippings, 1956-1957.
    • Box-folder 8:19
      News Clippings: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:20
      News Clippings: Gubernatorial Election, 1956.
  • Box 8
    Subseries 4: Other Papers, 1955-1957.
    • Box-folder 8:1
      Republican National Committee, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:6
      General Assembly: Uninsured Motorists, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:8
      National Election, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:9
      Gubernatorial Campaign: Driver's Education, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:10
      Virginia Senate Bills, 1956.
    • Box-folder 8:21
      General Assembly, 1956.

      Re: Integration.

Gubernatorial Campaign Papers, 1956-1957
Box 9-10
Series 7: Gubernatorial Papers
  • Box 9-10
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:2
      Correspondence and Speeches: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:5
      Gubernatorial Campaign Correspondence, 1957.

      Re: Segregation.

    • Box-folder 10:2
      Correspondence, January-December 1957.
  • Box 9-10
    Subseries 2: Speeches, 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:3
      Speeches, 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:4
      Speeches: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:1
      Speeches: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:5
      Speeches, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:6
      Speeches, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:7
      Speeches, 1956-1957.

      Re: Gubernatorial Campaign, Integration.

    • Box-folder 10:8
      Speeches: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:9
      Speeches: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:10
      Speeches: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:11
      Speeches: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:12
      Speeches: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1956-1957.
    • Box-folder 10:13
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1957.

      Re: Education, Integration, Highways.

    • Box-folder 10:14
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches: Integration, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:15
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:16
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches: Integration, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:17
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:18
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, July-December 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:19
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:20
      Speeches, 1957.

      Re: Gubernatorial Campaign and special session of General Assembly.

    • Box-folder 10:21
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:22
      Gubernatorial Campaign Speeches, 1957.
  • Box 9
    Subseries 3: News Clippings, 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:7
      News Clippings: Integration and Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:8
      Gubernatorial Campaign News Clippings, 1957.

      Re: Teacher's pay and integration.

    • Box-folder 9:9
      News Clippings: Gubernatorial Campaign. 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:10
      News Clippings: Gubernatorial Campaign. 1957.
    • Box-folder 10a
      News Clippings: Gubernatorial Campaign. 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:11
      News Clippings, 1957.

      Includes General Assembly (1956).

    • Box-folder 9:12
      News Clippings: Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:13
      News Clippings, 1957.
  • Box 9-10
    Subseries 4: Other Papers, 1957.
    • Box-folder 9:1
      Sen. Dalton's taped acceptance speech; overall length 5 minutes., 1957.
      film reel.
    • Box-folder 9:6
      Segregation Related Papers, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:3
      Gubernatorial Campaign, 1957.
    • Box-folder 10:4
      Gubernatorial Campaign Literature, 1957.
Papers, 1957-1960.
Box 11
Series 8: Papers
  • Box 11
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1957-1960.
    • Box-folder 11:1
      Correspondence, January-April 1957.
    • Box-folder 11:4
      Correspondence: Judgeship, etc., November-December 1959.
    • Box-folder 11:8
      Correspondence, 1960.

      Correspondents include Howard Baker, J. Lindsay Almond.

    • Box-folder 11:9
      Correspondence, 1960.

      Re: the College of William and Mary.

  • Box 11
    Subseries 2: Speeches, 1958-1959.
    • Box-folder 11:2
      Speeches, 1958.
    • Box-folder 11:15
      Speeches, 1959.

      Includes induction speech as a U.S. Judge.

  • Box 11
    Subseries 3: News Clippings, 1958-1960.
    • Box-folder 11:3
      News Clippings, 1958.
    • Box-folder 11:10
      News Clippings, 1959-1960.
    • Box-folder 11:11
      News Clippings, 1959.
    • Box-folder 11:12
      News Clippings: General Assembly, 1959.
  • Box 11
    Subseries 4: Other Papers, 1958-1959.
    • Box-folder 11:5
      General Assembly and Correspondence, 1959.
    • Box-folder 11:6
      General Assembly, 1959.
    • Box-folder 11:7
      General Assembly, 1959.
    • Box-folder 11:13
      Education in Virginia, 1958.
    • Box-folder 11:14
      Manual of General Assembly, 1958.
Federal Judgeship, 1958-1960.
Box 12-13
Series 9: Federal Judgeship
  • Box 12-13
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1958-1960.
    • Box-folder 12:1
      Correspondence, May 1958

      Re: Federal Judgeship.

    • Box-folder 12:2
      Correspondence, June 1958.

      Re: Federal Judgeship

    • Box-folder 12:3
      Correspondence, July-December 1958.

      Re: Federal Judgeship.

    • Box-folder 12:4
      Correspondence, 1958.

      Re: General Assembly.

    • Box-folder 12:5
      Correspondence, 1958.

      Re: General Assembly.

    • Box-folder 12:9
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Federal Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters.

    • Box-folder 12:10
      Congratulatory letters, 1959.

      Re: Judgeship.

    • Box-folder 12:11
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Federal Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters.

    • Box-folder 12:12
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Federal Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters.

    • Box-folder 12:13
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Federal Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters; correspondents include William M. Tuck and A. E. S. Stevens.

    • Box-folder 12:14
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Federal Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters; correspondents include Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

    • Box-folder 12:15
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond.

    • Box-folder 12:16
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters; correspondents include Alvin C. Chandler.

    • Box-folder 12:17
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters.

    • Box-folder 12:19
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters; correspondents include Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Colgate W. Darden, and William H. Tuck.

    • Box-folder 12:20
      Correspondence, 1959.

      Re: Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters.

    • Box-folder 12:21
      Correspondence, August 1959.

      Re: Judgeship: Congratulatory Letters.

    • Box-folder 12:24
      Correspondence, 1959.
    • Box-folder 12:26
      Correspondence, 1960.

      Includes Judge Barksdale, Judge Bryan, and Howard Baker.

    • Box-folder 13:2
      Correspondence, Nov. 1959 - Aug. 1960.

      Correspondents include Alvin D. Chandler.

    • Box-folder 13:3
      Correspondence, 1960.

      Correspondents include Richard Poff.

    • Box-folder 13:5
      Correspondence, 1960.

      Correspondents include Alvin D. Chandler and Richard Poff.

    • Box-folder 13:7
      Correspondence, 1961.
    • Box-folder 13:8
      Correspondence, 1961.

      Includes Richard L. Poff and Davis Y. Paschall.

    • Box-folder 13:10
      Correspondence, Jan. - June 1962.
    • Box-folder 13:11
      Correspondence, July - Dec. 1962.
    • Box-folder 13:15
      Correspondence, Jan. - July 1963.
    • Box-folder 13:16
      Correspondence, July - Dec. 1963.
    • Box-folder 13:17
      Correspondence, Jan. - June 1964.

      Correspondents include Nelson Rockefeller.

    • Box-folder 13:18
      Correspondence, June - Dec. 1964.

      Correspondents include Davis Y. Paschall.

  • Box 12-13
    Subseries 2: Speeches, 1958-1960.
    • Box-folder 12:6
      Speeches, 1958.
    • Box-folder 12:8
      Speeches, 1958.
    • Box-folder 12:22
      Speeches, 1959.
    • Box-folder 12:23
      Speeches, 1959.
    • Box-folder 12:25
      Speeches, 1960.
  • Box 12-13
    Subseries 3: News Clippings, 1958-1960.
    • Box-folder 12:18
      News Clippings and Letters to Attorney General William P. Rogers, 1958.

      Material relate to the Judgeship.

    • Box-folder 13:4
      News Clippings, 1960.
  • Box 12-13
    Subseries 4: Other papers, 1958-1960.
    • Box-folder 12:7
      Virginia Senate Bills, 1958.
    • Box-folder 13:1
      Induction as U. S. Dist. Judge for Western Virginia, 1959.
  • Box 12-13
    Subseries 5: Legal Opinions, 1958-1960.
    • Box-folder 13:6
      Legal Opinions, 1960.
    • Box-folder 13:9
      Legal Opinions, 1961.
    • Box-folder 13:12
      Legal Opinions, 1962.
    • Box-folder 13:13
      Legal Opinions, 1962.
    • Box-folder 13:14
      Legal Opinions, 1963.
    • Box-folder 13:19
      Legal Opinions, 1964.
    • Box-folder 13:20
      Legal Opinions and Correspondence, 1964.

      Correspondents include Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Papers, 1948-1982.
Box 14
Series 10: Papers
  • Box 14
    Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1965-1978.
    • Box-folder 14:1
      Correspondence, 1965.

      Correspondents include Davis Y. Paschall.

    • Box-folder 14:3
      Correspondence, 1966.
    • Box-folder 14:4
      Correspondence, 1966.

      Includes Honorary Litt. D. announcement by Milligan College.

    • Box-folder 14:6
      Correspondence, 1968.

      1 Letter from Albertis S. Harrison.

    • Box-folder 14:18
      Correspondence, 1966 - 1978.

      Correspondents include Mills E. Godwin,Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Mamie Eisenhower, Caspar Weinberger, Mrs. Thomas B. Stanley, William M. Tuck, A. S. Harrison, Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, A. E. Dick Howard, Linwood D. Holton, General R. Ford, John Dalton.

    • Box-folder 14:21
      Correspondence and Speeches, 1970 - 1971.
  • Box 14
    Subseries 2: Speeches, 1950-1982.
    • Box-folder 14:13
      Lewis F. Powell's Speech on Const. Rev., 1969.
    • Box-folder 14:16
      Honorary Litt. D. from College of William and Mary, 1972.

      Speech and clipping.

    • Box-folder 14:19
      Speeches, 1950.
    • Box-folder 14:20
      Speeches, 1951.
    • Box-folder 14:24
      Speeches and Clippings, 1980-1982.
  • Box 14
    Subseries 3: News Clippings, 1948-1977.
    • Box-folder 14:2
      News Clippings, 1948, and 1964 - 1967.

      1966 includes photocopy letter from Gerald R. Ford.

    • Box-folder 14:12
      News Clippings, 1963 and 1969.
    • Box-folder 14:15
      News Clippings, 1971 and 1970.
    • Box-folder 14:17
      News Clippings, 1972 - 1974, and 1977.
  • Box 14
    Subseries 4: Other papers, 1967-1979.
    • Box-folder 14:5
      The Reconstruction Amendments Debates, 1967.

      The Convention and Constitutions of Virginia, 1776-1966.

    • Box-folder 14:7
      Report of 1927 Virginia Constitution Committee on Amendments, 1968.
    • Box-folder 14:8
      Committee on Constitution Revision, 1968.

      Includes news clippings.

    • Box-folder 14:9
      Committee on Constitution Revision, 1969.
    • Box-folder 14:10
      Revision of State Constitution (Literature), 1968 - 1969.
    • Box-folder 14:11
      Poll Tax in Virginia, 1969.
    • Box-folder 14:14
      Ted Dalton's Tenth Anniversary as Federal Judge, 1969.
    • Box-folder 14:22
      Sigma Nu Fraternity and personal photographs, 1978.
      Photographs.
    • Box-folder 14:23
      Christmas Hunting Stories, 1967 - 1979.
Photographs, Videotapes, and other artifacts. 1932-1956.
Box 15-16 and small box
Series 11: Photographs, Videotapes, etc.
  • Box-folder 15:1
    Ted Dalton for Governor bumper sticker, n.d.
  • Box-folder 15:2
    Three reels of tape, 1955-1956.
    3 items. Tape.

    Blacksburg Referendum speech, 1955; Capital Press Room, 1956; second reel of Blacksburg Referendum speech.

  • Box-folder 15:3
    Reel of film entitled "Ted and Family", n.d.
    1 item. Film.
  • Box-folder 15:4
    Three reels of Tape concerning the gubernatorial campaign, n.d.
    3 items. Tape.
  • Box-folder 15:5
    Six photographs, 1942-1949, n.d.
    6 items. Photographs.

    Photographs include Virginia delegation to national Republican convention, Chicago 1932 (Ted Dalton); Indian Valley Hunt Club, Nov. 1942; (Ted Dalton): Rep. Lincoln Day Dinner, Feb. 1949; selection comm. At Eisenhower Vacation HQ, Augusta, GA., April 10; (Pres. Eisenhower, Ted Dalton): Judge Roby C. Thompson; Judges Ted Dalton, Alfred P. Murrah, and Oren Lewis.

  • Box-folder 16:1
    Reel of film, n.d.
    1 item. Film. Damaged.
  • Box-folder 16:2
    Nine Record albums, 1947-1953, n.d.
    9 items. Albums.

    The albums include Calir De Lune B/W Leibesstraum; Acceptance Speech, 1953 (2 Cv); Political Speech, 1951; Speech, 1947.

  • Other Othertype: Small Box
    Three reels of film, n.d.
    3 items. Film.

    The reels are entitled "Ted and Friends"; "Ted and Family"; and "Carry Virginia Back to Her People".

  • Other Othertype: Small Box
    Five reels of tape, n.d.
    Tape. 5 items.

    Tapes contain campaign speeches.