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

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.

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.