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Collection Number: 00280

Collection Title: Arthur P. Gorman Papers, 1872-1916

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Size 10.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items)
Abstract Arthur P. Gorman was United States senator from Maryland, 1880-1899 and 1903-1906, and president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. The collection includes a political letterpress copybook, 1880-1882; scrapbooks, 1872-1916, of newspaper clippings and other clippings, 1892-1905, relating to Gorman's career in Maryland politics and to his connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; pamphlets; notes; and a few letters, 1885-1916, mostly related to Gorman's political activities.
Creator Gorman, Arthur P. (Arthur Pue), 1839-1906.
Curatorial Unit Southern Historical Collection
Language English.
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Arthur P. Gorman Papers #280, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Provenance
Received before 1940. Addition received from Maxine Hall of San Diego, Calif., in May 2003 (Acc. 99509).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Processed by: SHC Staff, 1940-2004

Encoded by: Linda Sellars, 2004

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2020

This collection was rehoused with support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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Arthur P. Gorman (1839-1906), United States senator from Maryland, was born in Woodstock, Howard County, Md., on 11 March 1839. He attended the public schools and was appointed a page in the House of Representatives in 1852. He transferred to the Senate through the influence of Stephen A. Douglas, who made him his private secretary, and subsequently served the Senate as page, messenger, assistant doorkeeper, assistant postmaster, and finally postmaster. He was removed from his Senate office in September 1866 and immediately appointed collector of internal revenue for the fifth district of Maryland, 1866-1869. He was a director and later president of the Chesapeake Ohio Canal Co.

Gorman was a member of the State house of delegates, 1869-1875, serving as speaker for one session; a member of the State senate, 1875-1881; and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1880. He was reelected in 1886 and 1892, serving from 4 March 1881 to 3 March 1899. He was Democratic caucus chair, 1890-1898, and chair of the Committee on Printing in the Fifty-third Congress and of the Committee on Private Land Claims in the Fifty-fifth Congress. After losing his seat in 1898, Gorman was again elected to the United States Senate in 1902 and served from 4 March 1903 until his death in Washington, D.C., on 4 June 1906. He served as Democratic caucus chair, 1903-1906.

Gorman was married to Hannah Donegan Gorman (1837-1910). They had a son, Arthur Pue Gorman, Jr. (1873-1919).

Adapted from the Biographical Directory of the American Congress , with additional information from "Register of the Gorman Papers in the Maryland Historical Society."

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The Arthur P. Gorman papers include a political letterpress copybook, 1880-1882; scrapbooks, 1872-1916, of newspaper clippings and other clippings, 1892-1905, relating to Gorman's career in Maryland politics and his connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; pamphlets; notes; and a few letters, 1885-1916, mostly related to Gorman's political activities in the United States Senate.

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Contents list

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About 200 items.

Political letterpress copybook, 1880-1882; scrapbooks, 1872-1916, of newspaper clippings and other clippings, 1892-1905, relating to Gorman's career in Maryland politics and his connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; pamphlets; notes; and a few letters, 1885-1904, mostly related to Gorman's political activities.

folders 1-63 each contain one volume. folders 64-79 contain loose clippings. The remaining folders contain notes, letters, and pamphlets, mostly relating to political affairs.

Some newspaper clippings were discarded during processing because of their poor physical condition. Most of these clippings were from major newspapers, such as the New York Herald, the New York Sun, the Washington Post, the Baltimore American , the Baltimore Morning Herald, the Baltimore Sun, and the Chicago Times-Herald , and most of them were from the years from 1897 to 1904.

Folder 1

Governors of Maryland, 1777-1907, a series of newspaper articles in the Baltimore Sun, 1906-1907, by Heinrich Ewald Buchhole. A series of short histories of the governors.

Folder 2

1872-1877: Newspaper clippings concerning the Ohio Canal.

Folder 3

1875: Newspaper clippings concerning the Ohio Canal and Maryland politics.

Folder 4

1876-1877: Maryland and national politics.

Folder 5

1879-1880: Maryland and national politics.

Folder 6

1880-1882: Letter book.

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1881: Maryland and national politics.

Folder 7

Folder not used.

Folder 8

1881-1883: Maryland and national politics.

Folder 9

1882-1883: Maryland.

Folder 10

1885: Maryland.

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1887: Maryland.

Folder 11

Folder not used.

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1888 January-November: National elections.

Folder 12

Folder not used.

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1888 October-November: Maryland.

Folder 13

Folder not used.

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1889: Maryland and national.

Folder 14

Folder not used.

Folder 15

1890: Maryland and national.

Folder 16

1890-1891: Maryland.

Folder 17

1891: National.

Folder 18

1891: Maryland.

Folder 19

1891-1892: Maryland.

Folder 20

1892: Newspaper clippings, chiefly personal.

Folder 21

1892: Newspaper clippings, national.

Folder 22

1892-1896: Maryland.

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1892-1896: National.

Folder 23

Folder not used.

Folder 24

1893: Chiefly about silver.

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1893-1894: Maryland.

Folder 25

Folder not used.

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1894-1895: National and Maryland.

Folder 26

Folder not used.

Folder 27

1894-1895: Miscellaneous clippings, non-political.

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1894-1895: Maryland.

Folder 28

Folder not used.

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1895: Maryland.

Folder 29

Folder not used.

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1895: Maryland.

Folder 30

Folder not used.

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1895-1897: Maryland.

Folder 31

Folder not used.

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1895-1897: Maryland.

Folder 32

Folder not used.

Folder 33

1895: Chiefly about A. P. Gorman.

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1897-1899: National and Maryland.

Folder 34

Folder not used.

Folder 35

1897-1901: Clippings, newspapers outside Maryland, on Maryland politics.

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1898-1899: Baltimore city organization (Democratic Party).

Folder 36

Folder not used.

Folder 37

1899: Maryland.

Folder 38

1899-1901: Maryland and national.

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1900-1901: National affairs.

Folder 39

Folder not used.

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1900-1901: Maryland and national.

Folder 40

Folder not used.

Folder 41

1900-1901: Maryland.

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1901-1905: Chiefly Maryland.

Folder 42

Folder not used.

Folder 43

1903: Maryland.

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1905-1906: Miscellaneous clippings, national, and Maryland.

Folder 44

Folder not used.

Folder 45

1906: Binder containing message of Governor Edwin Warfield of Maryland to the General Assembly, printed. Also, proceedings of the Senate of Maryland with reference to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, printed.

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1906: Binder, printed material concerning the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.

Folder 46

Folder not used.

Folder 47

1906: National politics.

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1907 May-December: Maryland.

Folder 48

Folder not used.

Folder 49

1907 May-December: Maryland.

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1907-1908: Chiefly Maryland.

Folder 50

Folder not used

Folder 51

1908-1909: Maryland.

Folder 52

1909: National.

Folder 53

1909: Maryland and national.

Folder 54

1909-1910: National and Maryland.

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1910 February-September: Maryland.

Folder 55

Folder not used

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1910 February-September: Maryland.

Folder 56

Folder not used

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1910-1911: National and Maryland.

Folder 57

Folder not used

Folder 58-60

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

1911 March-November: Maryland.

Folder 61-62

Folder 61

Folder 62

1911-1914: National and Maryland.

Folder 63

1915-1916: Maryland.

Folder 64

1905: Clippings and pamphlets, Maryland suffrage amendment.

Folder 65

Clippings: 1892

Folder 66

Clippings: 1894-1896

Folder 67

Clippings: 1897

Folder 68-70

Folder 68

Folder 69

Folder 70

Clippings: 1898

Folder 71-72

Folder 71

Folder 72

Clippings: 1899

Folder 73

Clippings: 1899-1900

Folder 74-75

Folder 74

Folder 75

Clippings: 1900

Folder 76

Clippings: 1901

Folder 77

Clippings: 1902-1903

Folder 78

Clippings: 1903

Folder 79

Clippings: 1904

Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-280/1

Clippings

Folder 80

Notes

Folder 81

Correspondence, 1900-1916

Folder 82

Pamphlets and other printed material

Folder 83

Correspondence, 1885-1894 and 1890s

Acquisitions Information: Accession 99509 (Addition of May 2003)

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