Scope and Contents The Lever papers consist primarily of correspondence with constituents, businessmen, leaders in government, and educators. His career in Congress (1901-1919), organizer of the First Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank (1922-1929), his unsuccessful bid for governor of South Carolina (1930) and for Congress (1932), as a member of the Federal Farm Board (1930-1933) and his affiliation with the Farm Credit Administration (1933-1940) are covered in this collection. There is also material relating to...

Scope and Content Note This series consists of correspondence and reference files of the office of Director and Associate Director of the Cooperative Extension Service. Represented in the series are files of Directors W. W. Long, 1914-1934; D. W. Watkins, 1934-1955; George B. Nutt, 1955-1969; Wayne T. O'Dell, 1969-1984; and Byron K. "Bud" Webb, 1984 to present; Associate Directors represented are Thomas W. Morgan, 1940-1966, and J. B. Copeland, 1966-1980.The bulk of material, correspondence with...

Scope and Contents This series contains the presidential records of Samuel Broadus Earle, Acting President of Clemson College, 1924-1925. (For the six months in 1919 that Earle served as President in the absence of Walter M. Riggs, see the Riggs Presidential Records.) The series includes correspondence, departmental report and budgets, and annual report to the South Carolina General Assembly, partial lists of cadets, employment agreements, letters from parents and other individuals concerning the student...

Scope and Content Note This series contains the records of the office of Walter Merritt Riggs, President of Clemson College 1909-1924. The series is divided into two parts: correspondence, which is arranged chronologically, and collected material, arranged alphabetically.The correspondence falls into the general categories of administration, cadet life, and institutional development. Within these respective categories the topics deal with specific issues such as budget requests, requests for raises,...