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Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Beckman
Repository
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Identification
C0268
Title
Armistead L. Boothe collection 1920-1983
Quantity
1.0 linear feet, 2 boxes
Creator
Boothe, Armistead L. (Armistead Lloyd), 1907-1990
Language
English
Abstract
This collection documents the life and career of Armistead Boothe, an Alexandria, Virginia, lawyer, state legislator, and
trustee of Colonial Williamsburg.
Materials created prior to 1925 are in the Public Domain. These materials have no known restrictions.
The copyright and related rights status of materials created after 1925 have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions.
Preferred Citation
Armistead L. Boothe collection, C0268, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Acquisition Information
Donated to George Mason University Libraries before 2008.
Processing Information
Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. Processing completed by Elizabeth Beckman in June 2015. EAD markup completed
by Elizabeth Beckman in June 2015.
Armistead Lloyd Boothe (1907-1990) was a lawyer and state legislator from Alexandria, Virginia. Boothe attended Episcopal
High School, the University of Virginia, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He and his wife, Elizabeth Peele Boothe,
were married in 1934. Boothe served as a Democratic Virginia state legislator from 1948-1963. He was a prominent member of
a group of legislators known as the "Young Turks" who opposed the entrenched establishment politicians of Virginia government.
Boothe also served as a trustee of Colonial Williamsburg. A lifelong Episcopalian, he left politics and the law in 1970 to
serve as the Director of Development at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. Boothe died in 1990.
The collection documents the life and political career of Armistead L. Boothe from his school days in Alexandria, Virginia,
in the early 1920s to his role as Director of Development at Virginia Theological Seminary in the 1970s and his retirement
in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Included are certificates, a few photos, and a letter from Boothe's time as a student at
Episcopal High School and the University of Virginia, travel and bank documents from his time in England in the 1920s and
1930s, and newspaper articles, speeches and writings, press releases, campaign materials, and correspondence from his days
as a lawyer, politician, and director of development at Virginia Theological Seminary. Of particular interest is a letter
from 1969 to the parents of Mary Jo Kopechne, who was killed in the accident at Chappaquiddick in Ted Kennedy's car. Also
included in the collection are Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia briefs dating from the 1940s to the 1960s, as well as
correspondence, agendas, news articles, etc, from Boothe's role as a trustee of Colonial Williamsburg.
The collection is arranged in the order in which it was received. Photos and travel/school documents were grouped together
by the processing archivist.
Smith, Douglas. " 'When Reason Collides with Prejudice': Armistead Lloyd Boothe and the Politics of Desegregation in Northern
Virginia, 1948-1963." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 102:1. Jan, 1994, 5-46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4249409.
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