Congressional Papers
Collection Overview
The University of Vermont (UVM) is a major repository for Vermont Congressional papers, holding the records of over 30 Members of Congress from 1791 to the present. The Congressional Papers collection will provide access to digitized content from these papers. The intent is to document selected aspects of the legislative history of Vermont's members of Congress. In particular, we look at issues that were important for a particular member as well as issues that have been important over time such as support for dairy farmers, water quality, and slavery.
Time Period Covered: 1818-2004
Sub-collections
Letters Home From Congress
Dairy and the US Congress
Congressional Portraits
Congressional Speeches
Related Archival Collection(s)
Collamer Family Papers
George D. Aiken Papers
Warren R. Austin Collection
Crafts Family Collection
Published: October 07, 2006, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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- letter [40]
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- Foot, Solomon, 1802-1866. [5]
- Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861 [5]
- Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850 [5]
- United States. Congress -- Constituent communication [5]
- Democratic Party (U.S.) [4]
- Texas -- Annexation to the United States [3]
- Whig Party (U.S.) [3]
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 [2]
- Brown, John, 1800-1859. [2]
- Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898 [2]
- Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869. [2]
- Princeton (Steamship) [2]
- Slavery -- United States [2]
- Tariff -- United States [2]
- United States. Patent Office. [2]
- Amistad (Schooner) [1]
- Antislavery movements -- United States [1]
- Bankruptcy -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 [1]
- Billings, Frederick, 1823-1890. [1]
- Bounties, Military -- United States. [1]
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 [1]
- Chipman, John Smith, 1800-1869 [1]
- Cuban question -- To 1895. [1]
- Dixon, James, 1814-1873 [1]
- Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 [1]
- Dueling [1]
- Evans, Josiah J. (Josiah James), 1786-1858. [1]
- Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed), 1795-1864 [1]
- Gilmer, Thomas W. (Thomas Walker), 1802-1844 [1]
- Government travel [1]
- Government travel -- Washington (D.C.) [1]
- Green, Willis [1]
- Kennon, Beverley, 1793-1844 [1]
- Meacham, James, 1810-1856 [1]
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 [1]
- Oregon question [1]
- Polk, Sarah Childress, 1803-1891 [1]
- Post office buildings -- Vermont -- Barnard [1]
- Postmasters general [1]
- Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873. Greek slave [1]
- Public buildings -- Washington (D.C.) [1]
- Railroad travel [1]
- Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 [1]
- Slave trade -- Africa [1]
- Smith, John Gregory, 1818-1891. [1]
- Soldiers -- Vermont [1]
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American [1]
- Taylor, William, 1788-1846. [1]
- Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. [1]
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 [1]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands [1]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Territories [1]
- United States. Dept. of the Treasury [1]
- United States. Navy Dept. [1]
- United States. Pension Bureau [1]
- United States. Post Office Dept. [1]
- United States. Supreme Court [1]
- United States. War Dept. [1]
- Upshur, A. P. (Abel Parker), 1790-1844. [1]
- Vermont State House (Montpelier, Vt.) [1]
- White House (Washington, D.C.) [1]
- Wickliffe, C. A. (Charles Anderson), 1788-1869 [1]
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Author: ("Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865")
Title: Letter to Harriet Johnson, April 7, 1844
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1844-04-07
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include social life of wives of congressmen; steam ship Princeton accident; Representative John Quincy Adams (MA); Representative Solomon Foot (VT); social life
Title: Letter to Harriet Johnson, June 20, 1848
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1848-06-20
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include Committee on Public Lands; visit of Frederick Billings.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, December 14, 1845
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1845-12-14
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include visit to the White House with Representative Solomon Foot (VT); Sarah Polk, wife of the President; Congressional prayer meetings.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, February 10, 1845
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1845-02-10
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include Whig and Democrat members of Congress; President James Polk; annexation of Texas.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, February 14, 1847
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1847-02-14
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include city crowded with people seeking military appointments; Senator John Calhoun (SC) and the Calhoun branch of the Democratic party; President James Polk.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, February 2, 1845
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1845-02-02
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include speech by Collamer on Texas; case of Collamer's before the Supreme Court; health of Representative Willis Green (KY); annexation of Texas; tariff.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, February 4, 1844
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1844-02-04
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include abolitionism; Representative Joshua Giddings (OH); Representative John Quincy Adams (MA); Democrats and Whigs; speech making in Congress.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, January 14 1844
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1844-01-14
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include activities of a Congressman; constituent business at the General Post Office, the Treasury, the War or Navy Department, and the Patent Office; Congressional prayer meeting; social life.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, January 2, 1859
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1859-01-02
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include mailing of government documents and speeches by Collamer; new Senate chambers; social calls.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, January 24, 1847
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1847-01-24
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include Mexican-American War; President James Polk; General Zachary Taylor; General Winfield Scott.
Title: Letter to Mary Collamer, January 8, 1846
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1846-01-08
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter. Topics include speeches about Oregon; Representative Solomon Foot (VT); constituent business, particularly in regard to pensions.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, April 13, 1856
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1856-04-13
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include speech by Collamer in the Senate on Kansas; practice of visiting home by members of Congress while in session.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 11, 1859
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1859-12-11
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include President James Buchanan; Senator James Dixon (CT); John Brown; speeches in the House of Representatives.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 12, 1858
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1858-12-12
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include constituent business; invitation to dinner from President James Buchanan; new Senate chambers; Pension Office.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 14, 1856
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1856-12-14
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include speech by Collamer in the Senate.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 19, 1859
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1859-12-19
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include John Brown and proposed investigation of his supporters.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 20, 1857
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1857-12-20
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include opposition of Senator Stephen Douglas (IL) to the position of President James Buchanan on Kansas; new hall for House of Representatives.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 25, 1856
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1856-12-25
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include Agriculture Patent Office Reports to be mailed.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 26, 1858
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1858-12-26
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include new Senate chambers; mailing of government documents and speeches by Collamer; social life.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 3, 1848
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1848-12-03
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include traveling to Washington, DC; new session of Congress; lottery for seats in the House.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 13, 1859
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1859-02-13
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include acquisition of Cuba; Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 14, 1849
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1849-02-14
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include inauguration of President Zachary Taylor; traveling to Vermont by rail.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 17, 1844
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1844-02-17
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include party hosted by Postmaster General Charles Wickliffe; George Perkins Marsh; Democrats and Whigs; dueling.
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 24, 1856
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1856-02-24
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include invitation to dinner with President Franklin Pierce; Kansas and the Senate Committee on Territories; Representative James Meacham (VT) and alcohol; Representative Justin Morrill (VT).
Title: Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 28, 1844
Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Date: 1844-02-28
Resource type: letter
Letter to wife. Topics include war steam ship Princeton explosion, killing Secretary of State Abel Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs Captain Beverly Kennon and others.
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