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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. Godwin Jr. Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRelated papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eNote: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eExecutive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. 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Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. 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(Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. 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Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. Kostel\u003c/persname\u003efor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1972\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAdvisory Committee, Re-election of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePresident Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1973\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected Republican governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1974-78\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFirst person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1974\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1976\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1977\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Navy Public Service Citation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1978\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate citizen \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eReturned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAwarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eJanuary 30, 1999\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eDied at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNewport News, Virginia.\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003c/chronlist\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e\n "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00042_c06_c02_c10_c05"}},{"id":"viw_viw00042_c05_c06_c64","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"1966 Fall Conference of the Bank of\n Virginia, John Marshall Hotel, Richmond, Virginia, 14 October 1966.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00042_c05_c06_c64#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viw_viw00042_c05_c06_c64","ref_ssm":["viw_viw00042_c05_c06_c64"],"id":"viw_viw00042_c05_c06_c64","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00042","_root_":"viw_viw00042","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00042_c05_c06","parent_ssi":"viw_viw00042_c05_c06","parent_ssim":["Mills E. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. Godwin Jr. Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRelated papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eNote: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eExecutive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA. \n \u003c/archref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. Kostel\u003c/persname\u003efor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1972\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAdvisory Committee, Re-election of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePresident Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1973\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected Republican governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1974-78\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFirst person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1974\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1976\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1977\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Navy Public Service Citation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1978\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate citizen \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eReturned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAwarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eJanuary 30, 1999\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eDied at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNewport News, Virginia.\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003c/chronlist\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e\n "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00042_c05_c06_c64"}},{"id":"viw_viw00042_c05_c09_c40","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"1969 SREB Annual Meeting, American\n Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, 12 June 1969.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00042_c05_c09_c40#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viw_viw00042_c05_c09_c40","ref_ssm":["viw_viw00042_c05_c09_c40"],"id":"viw_viw00042_c05_c09_c40","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00042","_root_":"viw_viw00042","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00042_c05_c09","parent_ssi":"viw_viw00042_c05_c09","parent_ssim":["Mills E. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. Godwin Jr. Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"prefercite_tesim":["Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRelated papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOther related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eNote: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eExecutive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA. \n \u003c/archref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. Kostel\u003c/persname\u003efor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1972\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAdvisory Committee, Re-election of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePresident Richard M.\n Nixon\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1973\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected Republican governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1974-78\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFirst person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1974\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1976\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1977\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Navy Public Service Citation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1978\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate citizen \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eReturned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAwarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eJanuary 30, 1999\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eDied at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNewport News, Virginia.\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003c/chronlist\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e\n "]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00042_c05_c09_c40"}},{"id":"viw_viw00042_c05_c17_c01","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"1977.","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00042_c05_c17_c01#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viw_viw00042_c05_c17_c01","ref_ssm":["viw_viw00042_c05_c17_c01"],"id":"viw_viw00042_c05_c17_c01","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00042","_root_":"viw_viw00042","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00042_c05_c17","parent_ssi":"viw_viw00042_c05_c17","parent_ssim":["Mills E. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.","College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. 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(Henry Evans) Howell,\n Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,\n J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,\n A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,\n Howard Worth Smith,\n William B. (William Belser) Spong,\n Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,\n Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,\n William M.(William Munford) Tuck."],"creator_persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. 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(Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. 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Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSeries 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. 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Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.","College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. 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Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSeries 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. 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Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.","College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. 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Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSeries 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. 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Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.","College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. 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Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSeries 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. 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Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.","College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. 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Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSeries 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. 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Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.","College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. 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Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSeries 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. 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Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. Byrd, Jr. 's\u003c/persname\u003eU. S.\n Senate Campaign\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1971\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed on the advisory committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge J. 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Godwin Jr. Papers, 1947-1989.","Mss. 78 G54","College of William and\n Mary--History--20th century.","Segregation in\n education--Virginia.","Democratic Party\n (U.S.)","Republican Party (U.S. :\n 1854- )","Chlordecone.","Oysters--Virginia.","Taxation--Virginia.","Education,\n Higher--Virginia.","ca. 42,070 items and 7\n cartons.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization\n The collection is organized twelve series. Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.","Series 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date.","Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia.","Related papers can be found in the faculty-alumni file\n at the University Archive, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","Other related papers can be found at the Library of\n Virginia.","Note: The College of William and Mary, Swem Library,\n Special Collections has a copy of the inventory/finding aid\n to this collection at the Library of Virginia. It is\n located with the Mills E. Godwin Jr. Papers.\n Executive Papers of Mills E. Godwin Jr., Library\n of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. 23219 USA.","The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.","College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. 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Series 1 is\n correspondence of Mills E. Godwin, Jr.; Series 2 is\n correspondence of Katherine B. Godwin; Series 3 is\n correspondence of Becky Godwin; Series 4 is schedules;\n Series 5 is speeches; Series 6 is citations and plaques;\n Series 7 is audiovisual; Series 8 is scrapbooks; and Series\n 9 is Political Memorabilia and Selected Material. The last\n three series, 10-12, are additions to the collection and\n are group into series by their accession number. Series 10\n is accession 1985.15; Series 11 is accession 1989.29; and\n Series 12 is accession 1994.66.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eSeries 1-10 are generally arranged chronologically. 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The\n Additions to the collection located in Series 11 and 12,\n are also each arranged by date."],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.","He completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.","While awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.","He first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.","His first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.","During his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.","He continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.","During his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.","A blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.","As governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.","After serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.","He resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.","During his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.","His leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"","As governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.","Godwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.","Married to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.","On January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.","Chronology\n \n November 19 1914\n Born at \n Chuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.Son of \n Otelia Dardenand \n Mills Edwin Godwin,Sr. Sisters: \n Mary Lee,Mildred Elizabethand \n Leah Otelia\n \n \n 1931\n Graduated \n Chuckatuck High SchoolClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\n \n \n 1931-32\n College of William and\n Mary,Norfolk Division\n \n \n 1932-34\n \n College of William and Mary,\n Williamsburg\n \n \n \n 1935-38\n University of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\n \n \n 1937\n Passed State Bar Examination\n \n \n 1938\n Entered Law Profession\n \n \n 1940\n Married \n Katherine Thomas Bealeof \n Holland, Virginia\n \n \n 1943-45\n Special Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\n \n \n 1946\n Re-entered Law Profession \n Involved in \n Nansemond Countycommunity\n programs\n \n \n 1947\n Member of Virginia State Bar Association \n Elected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n Nansemond Countyand the \n City of Suffolk\n \n \n 1948-52\n Member, Virginia House of Delegates \n Served on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\n \n \n 1948\n Member Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n Virginia;Member Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n North Carolina\n \n \n 1949\n Active in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\n \n \n 1951\n Elected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n Southampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,and the cities of \n Suffolkand \n Franklin\u003e\n \n \n 1952\n Elected President of Ruritan National\n \n \n 1952-62\n Member, Virginia State Senate \n Served on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\n \n \n 1954\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n Appointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1961\n Elected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1962-66\n Served as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1965\n Elected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\n \n \n 1966-70\n Served as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\n \n \n 1966\n Awarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\n \n \n 1967\n Led first European Trade Mission\n \n \n 1969\n Played important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n Salem, Virginia\n \n \n 1970-73\n Private Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\n \n \n 1970\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 'sU. S.\n Senate Campaign\n \n \n 1971\n Served on the advisory committee, \n George J. Kostelfor\n lieutenant-governor campaign\n \n \n 1972\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Elmira College,\n Elmira, New York \n Advisory Committee, Re-election of \n President Richard M.\n Nixon\n \n \n 1973\n Awarded Honorary Degree by Hampden-Sydney\n College \n Elected Republican governor of Virginia\n \n \n 1974-78\n Served as governor of Virginia - Second\n Administration \n First person ever twice elected in Virginia to\n serve as Chief Executive and first in United States\n to be elected on both Democratic and Republican\n tickets\n \n \n 1974\n Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of\n Richmond \n Awarded Honorary Degree by Bridgewater\n College\n \n \n 1976\n Played important role in Bicentennial\n celebration\n \n \n 1977\n Awarded Navy Public Service Citation\n \n \n 1978\n Private citizen \n Returned to services as consultant and director\n of various boards \n Awarded New Market medal by Virginia Military\n Institute\n \n \n January 30, 1999\n Died at \n Newport News, Virginia."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Card Index"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["There is a card index to the main collection, Mss. 78\n G54, which is located in the Manuscript Cataloguer's office.\n This index catalogues people and subjects that appear in the\n collection."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills E. 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Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eIncluded among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAmong the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eCopies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The personal papers of Mills E. Godwin, Jr., dating from\n 1947 to 1978, consist of 24 boxes of correspondence, 1,100\n copies of speeches, schedules and appointments. Also included\n are 40 scrapbooks of news clippings and photographs, 159\n citations and plaques, and one box of audiovisual materials,\n all of which pertain largely to Godwin's personal involvement\n in the government, political life, activities, organizations\n and institutions of Virginia during the 30-year period. The\n majority of the items comprising this collection were\n microfilmed by the Virginia State Library.","It should be noted that all of the above referenced papers\n are identified as \"personal\" since the official executive\n correspondence of Godwin's two terms as governor of Virginia\n (1966-1970 and 1974-1978) has been placed by statute in the\n Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library. In connection\n with the personal papers, however, and available to\n researchers, are copies of the guide to the executive\n correspondence. The guide is on file with the Curator of\n Manuscripts at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary.","In addition to Godwin's personal papers, the collection\n includes a small quantity of Mrs. Godwin's correspondence and\n papers of their daughter, Becky, who was fatally struck by\n lightning in 1968, at the age of 15, at Virginia Beach,\n Virginia.","Included among these papers is correspondence of, or\n concerning, the following individuals: Watkins M. Abbitt,\n Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton,\n Henry E. Howell, Carter O. Lowance, Richard D. Obenshain,\n Julian Sargeant Reynolds, A. Willis Robertson, Howard W.\n Smith, William B. Spong, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens,\n and William M. Tuck.","Among the many topics the papers cover are: the College of\n William and Mary, segregation, the Democratic Party, the\n Republican Party, higher education, taxation, the\n contamination of the James River by kepone, the oystering\n industry and public mental health care.","Copies of nineteenth-century Godwin family wills are\n located among the several additions to the collection."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n "],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1947-1989, of Mills E.\n Godwin, Jr., member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the\n Virginia Senate, lieutenant-governor and governor. Includes\n his correspondence; correspondence of his wife Katherine\n Thomas Beale Godwin and their daughter, Becky Godwin;\n schedules; speeches; citations; audiovisual materials;\n scrapbooks; and political memorabilia."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,"],"famname_ssim":["Godwin family,","Godwin family."],"persname_ssim":["Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"names_ssim":["College of William and\n Mary,","College of William and Mary,","Godwin family,","Godwin family.","Watkins Moorman Abbitt,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1887-1966,","Harry Flood Byrd, 1914- ,","Virginia Governor (1978-1982 :\n Dalton),","Becky Katherine Godwin,","Mills E. Godwin Jr.,","Henry E. (Henry Evans) Howell,","Carter O. (Carter Olin) Lowance,","J. Sargeant (Julian Sargeant)\n Reynolds,","A. Willis (Absalom Willis) Robertson,","Howard Worth Smith,","William B. (William Belser) Spong,","Thomas B. (Thomas Bahnson) Stanley,","Allie Edwards Stokes Stephens,","William M.(William Munford) Tuck.","Otelia Darden","Mills Edwin Godwin,","Mary Lee,","Mildred Elizabeth","Leah Otelia","Katherine Thomas Beale","Harry F. Byrd, Jr. 's","George J. Kostel","President Richard M.\n Nixon","Abbitt, Watkins Moorman,\n 1908-","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1887-1966.","Byrd, Harry Flood,\n 1914-","Virginia. Governor\n (1978-1982 : Dalton)","Godwin, Becky Katherine,\n 1953-1968.","Howell, Henry E. (Henry\n Evans), 1920-","Lowance, Carter O. (Carter\n Olin), 1910-1989.","Reynolds, J. Sargeant\n (Julian Sargeant), 1936-1971.","Robertson, A. Willis\n (Absalom Willis), 1887-1971.","Smith, Howard Worth,\n 1883-1976.","Spong, William B. (William\n Belser), 1920-","Stanley, Thomas B. (Thomas\n Bahnson), 1890-1970.","Stephens, Allie Edwards\n Stokes.","Tuck, William M. (William\n Munford), 1896-1983."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1971,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T23:06:06.263Z","bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMills Edwin Godwin, Jr., was born November 19, 1914, at\n Chuckatuck in Nansemond County, now the City of Suffolk,\n Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe completed public school and attended the college of\n William and Mary. He obtained his degree in law from the\n University of Virginia in 1938. Honorary doctorate degrees\n have been awarded him by Elon College, Roanoke College, Elmira\n College, the College of William and Mary, Washington and Lee\n University, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond\n and Bridgewater College.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eWhile awaiting a commission in the U. S. Navy in World War\n II, he was appointed a special agent with the Federal Bureau\n of Investigation where he served for three years prior to\n resuming the practice of law in Suffolk until he was elected\n governor of Virginia in 1965.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe first entered politics in 1948 when he began service in\n the House of Delegates. From 1952 to 1962 he served in the\n State Senate of Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia from 1962 to 1966. During the 26 years he held public\n office, he ran seventeen times and was never defeated.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis first election as governor in November 1965, came after\n he had received the Democratic nomination without\n opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his administration from 1966 to 1970, he became\n known as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" taking the lead in\n upgrading education at every level from kindergarten through\n graduate school. Initiated and developed during his first term\n was the State's system of community colleges, two-year\n colleges offering occupational-technical and liberal arts\n training at minimum tuition. Salary increases and other\n improved benefits were granted teachers and faculty members.\n State aid to kindergartens, summer schools and classes for the\n handicapped encouraged broader opportunities throughout\n Virginia, and a number of other innovations were made in the\n public schools and higher education. The momentum followed a\n series of governor's conferences on education early in the\n administration. He persuaded the General Assembly to enact the\n Retail Sales Tax which was the first new broad-based tax\n passed in Virginia in more than one hundred years.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe continued and enlarged the emphasis on industrial\n development begun by his predecessor, Governor Harrison. He\n led the first two foreign trade missions and engaged in other\n efforts designed to attract high caliber new industry to\n Virginia and to encourage expansion by firms already located\n in the State. He saw industrial development and education as\n the principal means of continuing progress in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his tenure, Virginia made major strides also in\n water and air pollution control, port and park development,\n interstate, arterial and other highway construction, highway\n safety, mental health and other areas of State concern.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eA blue ribbon commission appointed by Godwin proposed the\n State's first constitutional revision in forty years. The\n result was approved overwhelmingly by the voters. He also\n proposed the first general obligation bond issue in this\n century and led the campaign in which Virginia's voters\n approved it by a margin of more than two to one.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor he served as chairman of the Southern Regional\n Education Board, Vice Chairman of the Southern Governors\n Conference and as a member of the Executive Committee of the\n Democratic Governors Conference and the National Governors'\n Conference. He also served as Chairman of the Appalachian\n Regional Commission.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as governor from 1966 to 1970, he returned\n home and became a Director of Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk\n and Western Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, and Dan River, Inc. and served\n as a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of\n Directors of Virginia National Bank. He was also on the Board\n of Directors of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHe resigned all of these posts after being elected governor\n a second time in November 1973, the first man ever twice\n elected by the people in Virginia to serve as Chief Executive.\n He was elected as the Republican nominee after being unopposed\n in their State Convention. He remains the only candidate in\n the country ever to win gubernatorial elections in the same\n state on both Democrat and Republican tickets.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eDuring his second term as governor, he faced a series of\n crises of major proportions. The Arab oil embargo of late 1973\n depressed the State's economy and the State revenues. As\n governor he ordered reduction of State spending by more than\n $200 million to keep the budget in balance and, as the economy\n improved later in his administration, he left a sizable\n surplus in the budget for his successor. Godwin dealt with the\n crises of shortages of gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil, the\n problem of Kepone, ten major floods and seven minor ones and\n the most serious drought in fifty years occurred in the last\n year of his administration which caused 115 of the State's 136\n political jurisdictions to be designated as disaster areas.\n Despite these problems, Virginia's forward movement continued\n during his second term with major improvements in all areas,\n in job opportunities, and especially in our correctional\n programs and in public and higher education. He obtained\n approval from the General Assembly in 1977 for a Referendum on\n a $125 million General obligation Bond Program, largely\n earmarked for education and corrections, and again led the\n campaign which resulted in overwhelming approval for all five\n bond issues presented to the voters.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eHis leadership as governor was evidenced everywhere.\n Virginia's noted Pulitzer Prize winner and editor, Virginius\n Dabney, wrote that: \"His two terms combine to form a series of\n constructive advances for the Commonwealth that are\n unsurpassed in the long history of Virginia's governors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eAs governor from 1974 to 1978, he was Chairman of the\n Southern Governors Conference, a member of the Executive\n Committees of the National Governors' Conference and the\n Republican Governors' Conference. He was Chairman for the\n second time of the Southern Regional Education Board and Vice\n President of the Council of State Governments.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eGodwin again returned to his home in Suffolk in January\n 1978, and served as a consultant to management and a member of\n the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Virginia\n National Bank. He was also a member of the Board of Directors\n of Union Camp Corporation, Standard Brands, Inc. and the\n Royster Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eMarried to the former Katherine Thomas Beale, Governor\n Godwin lived in Suffolk where for many years he owned and\n operated the 500-acre family farm. He has been active in the\n Oakland Christian Church, where he taught the Men's Bible\n Class for more than twenty-five years, and engaged in numerous\n community activities. He was a 33rd degree Mason, past\n president of Ruritan National, and a member of Omicron Delta\n Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, the Raven Society and Sigma Phi Epsilon.\n He was the recipient of the Virginia State Chamber of\n Commerce's Distinguished Service Award, the Virginia National\n Guard's Distinguished Service Medal, the Virginia Education\n Association's citation as \"Virginia's Education Governor,\" the\n Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service from the old\n Dominion Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America,\n the Centennial Medal from Hampton Institute, the Virginians of\n Maryland Medal, the FFA State Farmer Medal, also twice\n received a First Citizen's Award from Suffolk and Nansemond\n County, and the Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. Award from\n Norfolk State College, an award exemplifying highest caliber\n of statesmanship and interest in education in the\n Commonwealth. Virginia Military Institute has given him its\n New Market Medal, the highest award made by V.M.I.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1999, Mills E. Godwin Jr. died in Newport\n News, Virginia at the age of 84.\u003c/p\u003e\n ","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cchronlist\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eChronology\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003eNovember 19 1914\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eBorn at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck, Virginia, Nansemond\n County.\u003c/geogname\u003eSon of \n \u003cpersname\u003eOtelia Darden\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMills Edwin Godwin,\u003c/persname\u003eSr. Sisters: \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Lee,\u003c/persname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMildred Elizabeth\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eLeah Otelia\u003c/persname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eGraduated \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChuckatuck High School\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eClass President, active in Debating and\n Speaking\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1931-32\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and\n Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003eNorfolk Division\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1932-34\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003e\n \u003ccorpname\u003eCollege of William and Mary,\u003c/corpname\u003e\n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e\n \u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1935-38\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eUniversity of Virginia Law School Law Degree,\n Raven Society, Omicron Delta Kappa\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1937\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePassed State Bar Examination\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1938\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eEntered Law Profession\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1940\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMarried \n \u003cpersname\u003eKatherine Thomas Beale\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHolland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1943-45\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eSpecial Agent, Federal Bureau of\n Investigation\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1946\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eRe-entered Law Profession \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eInvolved in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003ecommunity\n programs\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1947\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember of Virginia State Bar Association \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eElected to Virginia House of Delegates,\n representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNansemond County\u003c/geogname\u003eand the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCity of Suffolk\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948-52\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia House of Delegates \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Insurance and\n Banking, Chesapeake and Its Tributaries, Executive\n Expenditures, Game and Inland Fisheries, and\n Nominations and Confirmations\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1948\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember Board of Directors, Bank of\n Whaleyville, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia;\u003c/geogname\u003eMember Board of\n Trustees, Elon College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eNorth Carolina\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1949\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eActive in Oakland Christian Church and civic\n clubs, lodge, regional and other community\n activities\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1951\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected in special election to Virginia State\n Senate, Fifth Senatorial District, representing \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSouthampton, Nansemond and Isle of Wight\n counties,\u003c/geogname\u003eand the cities of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSuffolk\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFranklin\u003c/geogname\u003e\u0026gt;\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected President of Ruritan National\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1952-62\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eMember, Virginia State Senate \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eServed on following committees: Chairman, Fish\n and Game; Finance; Courts of Justice; Counties,\n Cities and Towns; Enrolled Bills, and Welfare\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1954\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Elon College \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eAppointed to Public School Study Commission by\n Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1961\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1962-66\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as lieutenant-governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1965\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eElected Democratic governor of\n Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966-70\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eServed as governor of Virginia - First\n Administration \"Virginia's Education Governor,\"\n initiated Community College System and upgraded\n education at all levels, persuaded General Assembly\n to enact retail sales tax\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1966\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by College of William\n and Mary in Virginia\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1967\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eLed first European Trade Mission\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1969\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePlayed important role in projecting a revised\n constitution for Virginia Awarded Honorary Degree by\n Roanoke College, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eSalem, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970-73\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003ePrivate Citizen Member, Board of Directors of\n Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and Virginia\n Foundation for Independent Colleges Member, Board of\n Directors: Standard Brands, Inc., Norfolk and Western\n Railway Company, Union Camp Corporation, Virginia\n Real Estate Investment Trust, Dan River Mills, Inc.\n and Virginia National Bank (Executive\n Committee)\u003c/event\u003e\n \u003c/chronitem\u003e\n \u003cchronitem\u003e\n \u003cdate era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1970\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003cevent\u003eAwarded Honorary Degree by Washington and Lee\n University Honorary chairman, Committee of Virginians\n for the Constitution; Advisory Committee, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry F. 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