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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Frank Hereford (1825-1891) Correspondence, A&amp;M 1386, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Correspondence of Congressman and U.S. Senator, Frank Hereford. Papers deal with the machinations of the Camden-Davis ring, Hereford's election to the Senate, and West Virginia politics. Most of the letters involve the attempts of Johnson Camden and John E. Kenna to secure Hereford a seat on the Utah Commission in 1886. </p><p>Correspondents include: J. Ogden Murray, John E. Kenna, Johnson N. Camden, Lewis Baker, John Brannon, John Echds, and J. W. McCreery.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Lawyers - letters and papers.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Politics and government.</subject>
    <subject source="local">Camden-Davis ring</subject>
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    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97029537" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">United States. Utah Commission</corpname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95042898" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Camden, J. N. (Johnson Newlon), 1828-1908</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94003313" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Hereford, Frank, 1825-1891</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Kenna, John E.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">McCreery, J.W.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88122432" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Murray, J. Ogden (John Ogden), 1840-1921</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Baker, Lewis</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Brannon, John</persname>
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