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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Mathews Griggs Papers, #838, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Augusta Griggs Raines of Dawson, Ga., 1943

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Agriculture and state--United States--History.
• Agriculture--Georgia--History.
• Democratic Party (Ga.)--History.
• Farms--Georgia--Management--History.
• Forest reserves--United States--History.
• Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Griggs, James Mathews, 1861-1910.
• Legislators--United States--Correspondence.
• Panama Canal (Panama)--History.
• Postal service--United States--History--20th century.
• Prohibition--United States.
• Railroads--Freight--Rates--United States--History.
• Shellman (Ga.)--History.
• Tariff--United States--History.
• United States. Congress. House--History.

James Mathews Griggs (1861-1910) of Dawson, Ga., was a teacher, lawyer, state circuit judge, political leader, and United States representative (1896-1910). He served on the Post Office Committee, Ways and Means, and others. He also owned a farm at Shellman, Ga.

The collection includes correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs. Much of the correspondence is with constituents, Georgia political leaders, and members of the judiciary and the press, and relates to public issues and activities in Congress during Griggs's term of office, 1896-1910, as United States representative from Georgia. Among the subjects discussed are elections and candidates, rural mail service, railroad rates, tariff reduction, national forests, farming, Prohibition, the Panama Canal, and appropriations for the Post Office Department and the Army. Also included is correspondence with overseers of Griggs's farm at Shellman, Ga.

• Photographs (P-838/1-7)
• Volumes (SV-838/1, 10)
• Oversize Papers (OPF-838/1b)
• Extra-oversize Papers (XOPF-838/1a)