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Campaigns and Elections: Louisiana: Fraud, Intimidation, & Contested Elections
NOTES:
Some printed items are part of the LLMVC Ephemera Collection; they are listed by item title, with a link to the catalog record for the larger collection.
*Denotes unprocessed collection; see Notes & Tips tab for information on accessing unprocessed manuscript collections and oral history interviews.
Contested Elections
Manuscript collections:
- Anonymous New Orleans Letter
- Donna Brazile Papers*
- D. Warren Brickell Papers
- E.A. Burke Papers
- William S. Hamilton Papers
- William Pitt Kellogg Papers
- James G. Taliaferro and Family Papers
- Bainbridge Wadleigh Letter
Printed/Published items:
- The contested election for the Sheriffalty of New Orleans (1855)
- Majority report and resolution on the petition of Henry M. Hyams, Henry St. Paul, and D. D. Withers, contesting the right of Leonce Burthe, J. J. Michel, and Glendy Burke, to their seats as senators from the Parish of Orleans (1856)
- Report of the Joint Committee of the Legislature upon the election of Michael Hahn and R. King Cutler to the United States Senate (1866)
- Papers in the case of J.H. Sypher vs. Louis St. Martin, from the first Congressional District of Louisiana (1869)
Newspapers:
- New Orleans Republican: January 1, 1873
- New Orleans Tribune: February 28, 1869
- Weekly Louisianian: December 10, 1871; June 20, 1874; January 2, 1875; December 4, 1875
Fraud
Manuscript collections:
- David French Boyd Papers
- John B. Breaux Papers
- Ozeme Fontenot Family Papers
- David Weeks and Family Papers
Oral history interviews:
- Robert and Essie Mae Lewis oral history interview*
Printed/Published items:
- Clark Woodruff Letter (1834)
- Address of Charles Gayarré, to the people of the state, on the late frauds perpetrated at the election held on the 7th November, 1853, in the City of New Orleans (1853)
- Committee on Campaign Literature of the Home Rulers pamphlet re allegations of corruption against Martin Behrman (1904)
Newspapers:
- Daily Picayune: February 2, 1868
- New Orleans Bulletin: January 10, 1875
- New Orleans Republican: January 1, 1873
- Opelousas Courier: October 1, 1870
- People’s Vindicator: November 14, 1874
- Weekly Louisianian: March 14, 1872; July 27, 1872; November 2, 1872; January 11, 1873; July 4, 1874
Edward J. Gay and Family Papers
Telegram from victorious candidate Edward J. Gay to Randall Lee Gibson, alleging voter fraud in recent Congressional election against Willlam Pitt Kellogg, c. 1884
Address of Charles Gayarré, to the people of the state, on the late frauds perpetrated at the election held on the 7th November, 1853, in the City of New Orleans.
Intimidation
Manuscript collections:
- Albert A. Batchelor Papers
- Charles W. Boothby Papers
- Donna Brazile Papers*
- Pattie P. Peterson Papers
- Annabell Smith Diary
Printed/Published items:
- Address of Charles Gayarré, to the people of the state, on the late frauds perpetrated at the election held on the 7th November, 1853, in the City of New Orleans (1853)
- Intimidation and the number of white and of colored voters in Louisiana in 1876, as shown by statistical data derived from Republican official reports (1877)
- The Negro in Louisiana, seventy-eight years of progress... (1942)
- "The R. W." alias red warriors, alias right white: the brains of the so-called National Party of Louisiana, a wheel within a wheel (1978