Office of the President W. Taylor Reveley, III records

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

This collection contains material which may be restricted related to personnel matters, student records, or other reasons. A Special Collections Research Center staff member must review the collection for restricted material before any researchers may use the collection. Consult a staff member for assistance. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which William & Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not William & Mary Libraries.

Preferred citation:

Office of the President W. Taylor Reveley III records, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
42.58 Linear Feet 100 Hollinger boxes. Includes 1 oversize box.
Creator:
Reveley, W. Taylor, III and Office of the President
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Office of the President W. Taylor Reveley III records, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The Office of the President W. Taylor Reveley III records includes e-mail correspondence, letters, cards, subject files, speeches and other papers from the administration of William & Mary's twenty-seventh president, W. Taylor Reveley, III.

Biographical / historical:

W. Taylor Reveley, III (Walter Taylor Reveley, III) was the twenty-seventh president of William & Mary from 2008-2018. He served as the interim president of William & Mary after the resignation of President Gene R. Nichol on February 12, 2008, and was appointed President by the Board of Visitors on September 5, 2008. Reveley was the first interim president since Benjamin S. Ewell to be named President of William & Mary. From 1998 to 2008, Reveley served as dean of William & Mary's Marshall–Wythe School of Law and was the John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence at the Law School.

Reveley received his A.B. in politics from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1965. Afterward, he attended law school at the University of Virginia, receiving his Juris Doctorate (JD) in 1968, and clerked for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. in 1969. He has studied and written about the constitutional division of the war powers between the President and Congress of the United States. Reveley is the author of War Powers of the President and Congress: Who Holds the Arrows and Olive Branch? (University of Virginia Press, 1981).

Before joining William & Mary, Reveley practiced law for many years at Hunton & Williams, specializing in energy matters, specifically involving commercial nuclear power. He was the managing partner of the firm for nine years. Reveley has also spent a significant amount of time on non-profit organizations, serving on many education and cultural boards, including Princeton University, the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, St. Christopher's School, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Richmond Symphony, and the Presbyterian Church (USA) Foundation.

Acquisition information:
Accession 2010.425-2015.052 was transferred to the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) by the William Mary Office of the President, Carla Costello through Facilities Management beginning on August 4, 2010. Accession 2020.007 was transferred to the SCRC by W. Taylor Reveley, III, President Emeritus and John Stewart Bryan Professor of Jurisprudence on January 17, 2020. For further information please consult SCRC staff.
Processing information:

The Office of the President W. Taylor Reveley, III records will be updated to reflect new descriptions and acquisitions to the collection. Please consult William & Mary Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) staff at spcoll@wm.edu for further details.

Arrangement:

The Office of the President W. Taylor Reveley III records includes four series: Series I. Correspondence, Series II. Subject Files, Series III.Artifacts and oversize materials and Series IV.Restricted materials.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard