A Guide to the Patrick Henry Drewry Typescript Drewry, Patrick Henry, Typescript 8255-a

A Guide to the Patrick Henry Drewry Typescript

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Accession Number 8255-a

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

8255-a

Title

Patrick Henry Drewry Typescript 1905-1937

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of ca. 120 pages.

Language

English

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Preferred Citation

Patrick Henry Drewry Typescript, Accession 8255-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

Purchase.

Scope and Content Information

This typed manuscript, 1905-1937, of ca. 120 pages, contains speeches, addresses, and introductions, of Patrick Henry Drewry, and includes some autograph pages and revisions. Included are his first political speech (October 1905); an address on citizenship duties (September 1920); an introduction for E. Lee Trinkle, candidate for governor (1921); an address on behalf of J. T. Deal, candidate for Congress (October 1926); an address to the State Democratic Committee (May ? 1928); an introduction for Senator Robert W. Daniel (July 1937); an introduction for George E. Peery, candidate for governor (October 1933); an address on behalf of Colgate Darden, candidate for Congress (August 1932); speeches to Democratic meetings and conventions (1928, 1929, 1932); a speech during the gubernatorial campaign (1929); and an introduction for John Garland Pollard, candidate for governor (1929).

Drewry was a member of the 66th to the 80th Congresses, until his death, of the Fourth Virginia District and Virginia at large (73rd and 74th). He was also chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Committee, delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention in 1916, and delegate from Virginia to all succeeding national conventions and Virginia state conventions since 1912. Drewry was born in Petersburg, Virginia on May 24, 1875 and died there on December 21, 1947.