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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- Whig Party (U.S.) [8]
- Democratic Party (U.S.) [7]
- Tariff -- United States [5]
- Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850 [5]
- Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1842 Aug. 9 [2]
- Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856 [1]
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 [1]
- Dueling [1]
- Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed), 1795-1864 [1]
- Henderson, John, 1795-1857 [1]
- Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882 [1]
- Paine, Charles, 1799-1853 [1]
- Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 [1]
- Tariff on wool [1]
- Texas -- Annexation to the United States [1]
- United States. Congress -- Rules and practice [1]
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 [1]
- Wickliffe, C. A. (Charles Anderson), 1788-1869 [1]
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Topic: ("Whig Party (U.S.)")
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 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 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 Nathan and Mary Hill, August 7, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-08-07
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include Tariff Bill passed by Senate and sent to the President; efforts by Locofocos (Democrats) to oppose the Tariff Bill; Senate split on Tariff bill with twenty-five Whigs for, twenty Locofocos (Democrats) against, and five southern Whigs against, but Senator John Henderson (MS) was absent and Senator John Berrien (GA) did not vote; discussions about whether President Tyler will sign the bill what will happen if it is vetoed; treaty between Great Britain and the United States; Government band which plays in front of the Capitol every Thursday and at the Presidents on Saturday evenings; theatre performances; public gardens; Locofocos (Democrats) in Vermont.
Title: Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, July 17, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-07-17
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include President Tyler and the Tariff Bill; Tariff Bill passed, 116 to 112, by the House despite opposition from Locofocos (Democrats) and some Southern Whigs and a threatened veto; Tariff Bill now in the Senate where there are 20 Locofocos (Democrats) and 30 Whigs, but 5 southern Whigs who will cast the deciding votes on passage; Vermont State Whig Convention; Governor Paine (VT); Henry Clay's potential candidacy for President; Craft's feelings on being elected for the remained of Judge Samuel Prentiss' Senate term; rumored changes in President Tyler's cabinet; Daniel Webster, Lord Ashburton and a prospect of a settlement of disputes with Great Britain.
Title: Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, June 18, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-06-18
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include reports of a snow storm in Vermont; Apportionment Bill passed in the Senate; Tariff being considered in the House of Representatives; distribution of the proceeds of the public lands; description of work in the Senate; Locofocos (Democrats) and Whigs in Congress; President Tyler and Congress.
Title: Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, June 25, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-06-25
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include different rules and protocols in the House of Representatives and the Senate such as the one hour rule; President Tyler and the Whigs in Congress; Apportionment Bill; Locofoco (Democrat) opposition to districting of States; Tariff being considered in the House of Representatives; duty on wool; Distribution Act; rumor of a Cabinet break-up by President Tyler.
Title: Letter to Pliny Corbin, July 13, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-07-13
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include workload of Congress and industriousness of majority members in the Senate and the House; relationship of Whigs and Locofocos (Democrats) in Congress and relationship of Congress to President Tyler; Tariff Bill and expected Presidential veto.
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