Records of Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore, 1998-2002

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888

Summary

Creator:
Governor James S. Gilmore
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of the executive papers transferred from the office of James Stuart Gilmore III (1998-2002), the sixty-eighth Governor of Virginia. The collection is housed in one hundred (141) boxes and is arranged into twenty-one series. Includes records from the Counselor's Office, Press Office, Executive Mansion, Scheduling Office, and the Constituent Services. Records consist of correspondence, certificates of recognition, event files, invitations, itineraries, photographs, press releases, reports, speeches and other files.

Major issues and initiatives of the Gilmore Administration documented in these records include the car tax, Standards of Learning, several trade missions, and the 9/11 Attack and the response to the threat of terrorism.

Biographical / historical:

James Stuart Gilmore III was elected Virginia's 68th Governor in November 1997 and served in this capacity from January 1998 to January 2002. Jim Gilmore was born in Richmond, Virginia, on October 6, 1949. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1971 with a degree in Foreign Policy and then joined the U.S. Army, where he then graduated with honors from the Army Intelligence School. He joined the 650th Military Intelligence Group and was stationed in West Germany. After his tour was completed, he entered law school at the University of Virginia and graduated in 1977. Jim Gilmore was elected in 1987 as Commonwealth's Attorney for Henrico County, was reelected in 1991 and was elected Virginia's Attorney General in 1983. He is married to the former Roxane Gatling of Suffolk.

Records of Governor Gilmore were transferred on January 11, 2002 and November 17, 2002. After the first transfer, it was soon discoverd that only a fraction of the records listed on the approved Records Retention and Disposition Schedule for the Governor's Office had been transferred to the Library of Virginia. After this realization, LVA senior management contacted Gov. Gilmore and his former staff members and began discussions in June 2002 that eventually escalated to legal negotiations over the official gubernatorial papers. A final agreement was reached in November 2002 and the contested 228 boxes of records were finally transferred to the Library of Virginia a few days later.

Acquisition information:
Office of the Governor
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into the following series:

  • Series I. Records of the Counsel to the Governor, 1973-2002 (Accession 39024).
  • Series II. Press Office: Media Advisories, 1998-2002 (Accession 39773).
  • Series III. Press Office: News Releases and Newsclippings, 1998-2002 (Accession 38995).
  • Series IIIa. Press Office: News clipping subject and chronological files, 1998-2001 (Accession 40170).
  • Series IV. Press Office: Speeches, 1998-2002 (Accession 40172).
  • Series V. Press Office: Photographs, 1998-2001 circa (Accession 38996, 40171).
  • Series VI. Executive Mansion: Director's Corresondence, 1998-2001 (Accession 39023).
  • Series VII. Executive Mansion: Event files, 1998-2001 (Accession 39023)
  • Series VIII. Scheduling Office: Invitations, 1997-2001 (Accession 38990).
  • Series IX. Constituent Services: Gift Files, 1998-2001 (Accession 38939).
  • Series X. Constituent Services: Daily Updates and Website Changes, 1999 (Accession 38939).
  • Series XI. Constituent Services: Mass Mailing Lists, 2000 (Accession 38939).
  • Series XII. Constituent Services: Patrick Henry Awards, 2001 (Accession 38939).
  • Series XIII. Constituent Services: Governor's Outreach Network, 1999-2000 (Accession 38939).
  • Series XIV. Constituent Services: Library of Virginia's Governor's Records Transfer Listings (Accession 38939).
  • Series XV. Constituent Services: Intern Listings, 2001, (Accession 38939).
  • Series XVI. Constituent Services: Governor's Fellows Program, 1998-2001(Accession 38939).
  • Series XVII. Constituent Services: Certificates of Recognitions and Messages, 1998-2001 (Accession 38939).
  • Series XVIII. Constituent Services: Constituent Correspondence, 1998-2002 (Accession 38938).
  • Series XIX. Scheduling Office: Event files, 1998-2002 Jan (Accession 40173).
  • Series XX. Scheduling Office: Reading files, 1997-2002 Jan (Accession 40173, 40174).
  • Series XXI. Chief of Staff: Correspondence and memoranda, 1998-2001 (Accession 39777).
  • Series XXII. Executive Office: Executive orders, 1998-2001 (Accession 39775).
  • Series XXIII. Policy Office: Executive orders, certificates of recognition and messages, 1998-2001 (Accession 40169).
Physical description:
146 cu. ft.