Edwards, Horace H., papers A Guide to the Horace H. Edwards papers, 1941-1977 M 246 A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Collection number M 246

A Guide to the Horace H. Edwards papers, 1941-1977 M 246

A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Collection number M 246


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Repository
VCU James Branch Cabell Library
Identification
M 246
Title
Horace H. Edwards papers 1941-1977
Quantity
12.2 Linear Feet
Creator
Edwards, Horace H. (Horace Hall), 1902-
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for use without restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Box/folder, Horace H. Edwards Papers, M 246, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University

Acquisition Information

This collection was donated to the Department by Mrs. Mary Edwards in November 1987.


Biographical/Historical Information

Born in 1902 in Isle of Wight, Mr. Edwards began his political career shortly after his graduation from the University of Richmond in 1926 with a degree in law. In 1928 he worked on the presidential campaign of Al Smith. When Smith was defeated, Edwards returned to the practice of law but remained active in politics. In 1933 he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates and served three terms. Appointed city attorney in 1938, Edwards held the position for ten years, guiding the city's direct annexation suits against Henrico and Chesterfield counties. In this period, Edwards became an expect on annexation and taxation.Edwards was elected mayor of Richmond in 1946 and served for two years, resigning to seek the Democratic nomination for governor in the 1949 primary. During his unsuccessful campaign, Edwards spoke of more and better schools and better pay for teachers. In 1954 he accepted the position of Richmond City Manager, a capacity in which he served for thirteen years. During his tenure, Richmond began several construction projects. Although Edwards later admitted that he ran his office often without a certain amount of diplomacy, he survived three attempts by the City Council factions to oust him and became one of the city's most durable and effective administrators.Following his resignation as City Manager in 1967, Edwards was named as special counsel for the city in its annexation suit against Chesterfield County. He also continued his work with the National and Virginia Municipal Leagues and the law firm of Mays, Valentine, Davenport and Moore. Mr. Edwards suffered a stroke in 1985 and was hospitalized several times before his death on 27 January 1987.Additional information on Mr. Edwards can be found in the Pinchbeck Series, Good Government Awards 1959 materials of the Richmond First Club Archives, M238.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondences, reports, files and published materials dating from 1941 through 1977. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1950s through the mid 1970s and focuses on Mr. Edwards activities with the National and Virginia Municipal Leagues, the City of Richmond, the annexation of Chesterfield County.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged alphabetically within the series. Series I--Personal Information and Legal Cases (1941-1977); Series II--Holt Case (n.d., 1976)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Edwards, Horace H. (Horace Hall), 1902-
  • Lawyers -- Archives -- Virginia -- Richmond
  • Local government -- Virginia.
  • National Municipal League
  • Politicians -- Archives -- Virginia -- Richmond
  • Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
  • Virginia Municipal League

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Edwards, Horace H. (Horace Hall), 1902-

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Container List

Personal Information and Legal Cases
1941-1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Address of City Manager Horace Edwards of the Virginia Municipal League
    1963
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Address of Mayor Horace Edwards - Convention of American Municipal Association
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Address of the Honorable Horace Edwards-League of VA Counties
    1947
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Airport Study
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    American Election Systems
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Annual Message by Horace Edwards, President to the Virginia Municipal League
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Argument Docket-Supreme Court of Virginia at Richmond
    1978-1979
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    American National Red Cross-Membership and Fund Campaign
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Articles from the Times Dispatch about the Votes for Women
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Assessment of the Work and Recommendations of the Virginia Metropolitan Area Study Commission
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Babcock-Phillips (General File)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Beer vs the USA
    1974
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Biographical Data on William G. Colman
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Bradley vs the City of Richmond (Negro Composition of Area Schools)
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Budgetary Controls in City Manager Government
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Central Hill Baptist Church
    1959
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Certificate of Incorporation of S. Bachrach Co., Incorporated
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chart Containing Tax Rate Applicable to Political Employees
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    City of Petersburg, Va vs the USA
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    City of Richmond vs. County of Chesterfield
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chavis vs. Whitcomb
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chavis vs. Whitcomb
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesapeake Corporation vs. McCreery
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Annexation (Appraisals)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Annexation (Bill for Interrogatories)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Annexation (Burnett Statement)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Annexation (General)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Annexation-Legal Memo (Valuation)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Annexation (Rountrey Appraisal)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Case-Supreme Court Option
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield County vs. the City of Richmond
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Interrogatories (County)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Chesterfield Interrogatories (City)
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    City of Alexandria, Va-Service Award Program
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    City of Richmond vs. Chesterfield County
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    City of Richmond vs. County of Chesterfield
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    City of Richmond vs. County of Chesterfield (Annexation Suit)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    City of Richmond vs. United State of America
    1974
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    City of Richmond vs. USA and Richard Kleindienst
    1973
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Commonwealth of Virginia vs USA
    1974
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Correspondence (General)
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Correspondence (Proposed Developments Facing the City)
    1960
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    County of Chesterfield (Summary of Tuition Chargeable to City of Richmond)
    1970-1972
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    County of Henrico, Windsor Farms, Inc. and Others vs. City of Richmond
    1941
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    County of Chesterfield, Va (Notes to Reconciliation of Net Operating School Cost for the Year Ended)
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    County of Los Angeles, California and the State of South Carolina vs. the Honourable Ray Marshall, The Honorable Michael Blumenthal and the Honorable Jerome Kurtz
    1978
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Courts of the Richmond Area (A Primer)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Crime Statistics
    1960-1965
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Data for Speech
    1959
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Dedication Address of the Honorable Horace Edwards-City Hall-Waynesboro, Va
    1962
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Dedication Address of the Honorable Horace Edwards-Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court
    1964
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Deerbourne Civic and Recreation Association vs. City of Richmond
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Deerbourne Civic and Recreation Association and Traylor Estates Civic Association, et al vs. City of Richmond
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Department of Welfare
    1956
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Description of Various Cases
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Development of the Thesis that a City Requires Balance to Survive
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Development of Management Personal-Panel Participation Before Conference of International City Managers' Association
    1954
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Digest of the Career and Achievements of Ben R. Johns, Jr.
    1972
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Documents on Behalf of Defendants
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    DuVal, Clive vs. Prichard, Edgar
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Edwards
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Edwards, Horace (Miscellaneous)
    1965-1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Edwards, Horace-Personal Information from Teaching (Political Science)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Edwards (Notes)
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Edwards-Personal File
    1951
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Edwards-Personal File
    1953
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Edwards (President)-Virginia Municipal League
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Election Statistics
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Excerpts from the Remarks of Edwards- "Civic Organizations and Municipal Government "
    1948
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Excerpts from the Remarks of Edwards-League of Virginia Municipalities
    1955
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Excerpts from the Remarks of Edwards (President)-Virginia Section ICMA
    1959
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Executive Director's Report
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Federal Mandating of State and Local Personnel Practices: The Case for Caution
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Federal and State Payments
    1960
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Figures Used for Rotary Speech
    1956
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Financial Report of the Director of Finance of the City of Richmond
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Forward Thrust-Guidelines for Mobilizing Total Community Resources
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Garbage Award of WRVA
    1959
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    General Correspondence-HHE
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Good Legislative Session for Municipal Government
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Hahn Commission
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    HHE-Correspondence
    1969-1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    HHE-Correspondence
    1972
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    HHE-Correspondence and Miscellaneous
    1972
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    HHE-Estate of Russell Tinsley (See Also "Tinsley Case ")
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    HHE-George Scott-Sewer Line Problem
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    HHE-Memos
    1972
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    HHE-Personal Correspondence
    1974
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    HHE-Trial Notes-Chesterfield
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    ICMA
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Idea and Assignment Sheet
    1975-1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Impact of Annexation on City Finances: A Case Study in Richmond, Virginia
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    The Importance of Effective Tax Collecting
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Index of Witnesses (City of Richmond vs. Chesterfield County)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Isle of Wight
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Junes' Papers
    1979
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Junes' (Louis and Thalia) Papers
    1980
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Laws for Certain Cities in Certain States
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    List of Legislative History Materials
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    The Magazine of Virginia Commonwealth
    1983
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Mahan, John vs. Howell, Henry vs. City of Va Beach vs. Howeel vs. Weinberg vs. Prichard
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Manager Evaluates Modern Budget Practices
    1956
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Materials for an Accounting Class
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Material on the Internal Revenue Service
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    McCreery Case-Chronology
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    McCreery vs the Chesapeake Corporation
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Memo File
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Memorandum (To: Mr. Crosley From: Lang Smith)
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Memorandum on the Proposed Compromise in the Chesterfield County Annexation Line Relating to Richmond City School Building Needs
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Memorial Resolution (John Davis)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Minutes of the Meeting of the Council of the National Municipal League
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Miscellaneous-HHE
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Municipal Annexation: The Federal Dimension
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Name and Address List for Lawyers in the Firm
    1983
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    National Association for Community Development vs. Hodgson
    1973
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    National Municipal League
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    National Municipal League Conference
    1954
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    National Municipal League-Financial Statements (Report of Certified Public Accountants)
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    National Municipal League-Financial Statements (Report of Certified Public Accountants)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    National Municipal League-Financial Statements (Report of Certified Public Accountants)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    National Municipal League (Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Fund Balances)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Newspaper Article- "Shift Debated in Voting Rights "
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Notes-Edwards
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Notes on League Speech at the Chamberlain
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Notes for Talk at ASPA Convention
    1956
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Oath of the Citizens of Athens
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Off-Street Parking
    1961
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Optimist Club of Emporia, Va
    1955
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Option to Purchase
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Paper on Thomas Jefferson
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Party Responsibility (Address at Jefferson Day)
    1953
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Pamphlets on the National Municipal League
    1968-1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Planning for a Greater Richmond
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Planning and Urban Development-City Exhibits-City of Richmond vs. USA
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Problems of Local Government
    1916-1955
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Recommendations for Changes in Richmond Supplemental Retirement System
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Remarks of the Honorable Thomas Bliley (Mayor of Richmond)
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Report to Henrico County and Chesterfield County, VA
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond Bar-Committee on Legislation
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    The Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike Authority
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond vs. Chesterfield (Capital Budget)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond vs. Chesterfield (General Services)
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond vs. Chesterfield (Planning)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond vs. Chesterfield (Public Works)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond vs Chesterfield (Recreation)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond vs. Chesterfield (Sewers-County)
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond vs. Chesterfield (Water-County)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond vs Chesterfield (Welfare)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond, Va
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Richmond Urban Institute (See also search)
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Rotary Club Speech-Comparisons (Negro and White)
    1956
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Rotary Speech
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    RPI-Evening College
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    The Salvation Army (Hospital Advisory Council)
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    School Board of Chesterfield County vs. School Board of the City of Richmond
    1974
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    School Board of Chesterfield County vs School Board of the City of Richmond
    1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    School Board of Chesterfield County vs. School Board of the City of Richmond
    1976-1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    School Board of Chesterfield County vs. School Board of the City of Richmond
    1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Scientific American-Magazine (September)
    1965
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Search-A Report from the Richmond Urban Institute
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Series of Poems
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Service Pin Awards
    1956
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Significant Developments Facing the City of Richmond
    1960
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Social Security Act of 1935: Congressional Debates
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Sound Municipal Insurance Program
    1960
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Speech-50 Years of Municipal Government in the US
    1965
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Speech Material
    1967
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Speech Material-Bureau of Police
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Speech Material-Urban Trends in the General Assembly
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    State Constitutional Conventions
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    State Constitutional Conventions
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    State Constitutional Conventions
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    State Legislature Progress Report
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    State Legislatures Project (3rd Annual Report)
    1968
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    State Legislatures Project (4th Annual Report)
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    State Legislatures Project (5th Annual Report)
    1970
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    State Sales Tax
    1956
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Statistics on GNP
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Status of the City (Fiscal and Management Report)
    1973-1977
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Stockholders in Government
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Strengthening Management Organization-The City of Richmond
    1971
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Summary of Testimonies
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Supplement-Powers of Cities and Towns
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Tinsley Case
    1975
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Tuckev Club-Separation of the Church and State
    1959
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Unemployment Insurance Costs to Local Government in State of Va and Cost to State of Va
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    United States District Court for the District of Columbia
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    University of Richmond-Law Review
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Urban Renewal in Richmond
    1962
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Usher's Speech
    1956
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Virginia Municipal League
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Virginia Society for Crippled Children and Adults-Richmond Chapter
    1951
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Virginia State Bar
    1969
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Virginia Union University-Summer Session
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Welfare Statistics
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Virginia Union University-Summer Session
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Welfare Statistics
    1966
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Youth City Government
    1958
Holt Case
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Annexation of Virginia (book) by Chester W. Bain
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Briefs I of IV and II of IV
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Briefs III of IV of IV
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Briefs on Annexation Case (#1)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Briefs on Annexation Case (#2)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Briefs on Annexation Case (#3)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Briefs on Annexation Case (#4)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Briefs on Annexation Case (#5)
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Briefs on Annexation (#6)
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Briefs on Annexation (#7)
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    City of Richmond Exhibits
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    City of Richmond Proposed Five Year Capital Improvement Plan
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Correspondence on Annexation
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Maps of Annexation and Corresponding Statistics
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Miscellaneous Materials on Annexation (#1)
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Miscellaneous Materials on Annexation (#2)
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Miscellaneous Materials on Annexation (#3)
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Miscellaneous Materials on Annexation (#4)
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Miscellaneous Materials on Annexation (#5)
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Notes on Annexation (Written by Edwards)
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Plan of Government for the Richmond Region
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Statistics of Annexation
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Transcript on Holt Case
    January 15, 1976
  • Mixed Materials box: 9
    Various Original Briefs on Holt Case (#1)
  • Mixed Materials box: 10
    Various Original Briefs on Holt Case (#2)
  • Mixed Materials box: 10
    Various Original Briefs on Holt Case (#3)
  • Mixed Materials box: 10
    Various Original Briefs on Holt Case (#4)
  • Mixed Materials box: 10
    Various Original Briefs on Holt Case (#5)