Z 1429.000 S
ROBINSON (THOMAS MITCHELL) PAPERS


Thomas Mitchell Robinson was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on October 19, 1894. He was the son of John W. and Ida Mitchell Robinson. He attended Augusta Military Academy, Fort Defiance, Virginia, from 1909 to 1912; Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, in 1913; and Mississippi State College, Starkville, from 1913 to 1916. Robinson received a bachelor of science degree from Mississippi State College. He became a partner in Robinson and Julienne insurance agency in 1921. Robinson married Amalie Nance Fair, daughter of William Young and Amalie Sykes Fair, on November 1, 1928. He served as the business manager of Mississippi State College from 1932 to 1937; as a Mississippi state senator, Hinds County, Twelfth District, from 1940 to 1944; and in the Mississippi National Guard. Robinson was also a member of the Exchange and Sales Executives clubs in Jackson.

This collection contains the following materials:

  • Box 1, folders 1-11: Correspondence, February 27, 1940-February 25, 1975.
  • Box 2, folder 12: Telegrams.

               folder 13: List of stockholders, Shady Oaks Country Club, Jackson, August 10, 1963.

               folder 14: Speech of Jack Sullivan, deputy state insurance commissioner, at Institute of Life Underwriters meeting, May 4, 1939.

               folder 15: Statement on taxation by Hinds County representative Horace B. Lester.

               folder 16: Remarks of Colonel Harley W. Ladd at Pearl River Association annual meeting, Jackson, October 28, 1969.

               folder 17: Papers from Wisconsin retirement system, 1951-1952.

               folders 18-20: Charter of incorporation, constitution, minutes, correspondence, and membership records of Army and Navy Club, Jackson, 1941.

  • Box 3, folders 21-26: Correspondence, membership records, newsclippings, and other papers of Army and Navy Club, Jackson, 1940-1941.
  • Box 4, folders 27-31: Specifications for alterations and renovations to Robert E. Lee Building by John C. Suffling, architect.

               folder 32: Identification and membership cards.

               folder 33: Invitations.

               folder 34: Program, Fifty-seventh Annual Commencement Exercises of Mississippi State College, May 31, 1937.

               folder 35: Transcript of remarks of Pete Flowers to members of Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board, November 26, 1957.

               folder 36: Report of Mississippi State Hospital Commission, July 1, 1949-June 30, 1951.

               folder 37: Materials regarding Mississippi Coliseum, February 11, 1960-May 25, 1962.

               folder 38: Membership directory of Mississippi Manufacturers Association, November 15, 1964.

               folder 39: Warranty deed.

               folder 40: Materials regarding Jackson Sales Executives Club.

               folder 41: Issue of Time magazine, February 24, 1958.

  • Box 5, folder 42: Materials regarding Georgia retirement system, 1949-1951.

               folder 43: Papers regarding construction bids and contractors.

               folder 44: Papers regarding Mississippi Manufacturers Association.

               folder 45: Biographical data on Mississippi state senators, 1956-1960; and on Alex McKeigney and Guy Middleton.

               folder 46: Mississippi Folk Voices by William Ferris.

               folder 47: Minutes of Fifth-ninth Annual Convention, Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, June 3-4, 1954.

               folder 48: Certificate honoring Thomas Mitchell Robinson from President Gerald Ford, March 21, 1975.

               folder 49: Roster of those attending Mississippi dinner of Newcomen Society in North America, May 6, 1965.

               folder 50: List of charter members of Jackson Exchange Club, June 7, 1921.

               folder 51: Copy of Pearl River Valley Water Supply District legislative act.

               folder 52: Copy of an argument of John W. Davis on school segregation before United States Supreme Court, December 7, 1953.

               folder 53: Petition regarding Mississippi Memorial Stadium.

  • Box 6, folder 54: Status of senate bills and concurrent resolutions at close of 1955 extraordinary session of Mississippi legislature and a list of committee assignments of senators during 1956 regular session.

               folder 55: Status of senate bills during 1958 regular session and a list of senate standing committees, 1956.

               folder 56: List of members of Mississippi House of Representatives, 1948-1952; list of house bills approved or vetoed by governor, 1958; and facts regarding House Bill No. 92, 1949.

               folder 57: Effect of and justification for House Bill No. 527 and Senate Bill No. 1430 allocating a one cent gasoline tax to municipalities on a per capita basis, 1953.

               folder 58: List of nominees for Mississippi legislative committees, 1956-1960.

               folder 59: Various legislative acts.

               folder 60: Clippings, bills, and a program regarding University Hospital, 1948-1955.

               folders 61-62: Bills, clippings, and papers regarding Jackson Memorial Stadium, 1947-1952; n.d.

               folders 63-64: Senate and house bills, 1950-1971.

  • Box 7, folders 65-71: Senate and house bills, 1950-1971.
  • Box 8, folder 72: Pictorial work on Mississippi Highway Department, 1940.

               folder 73: Study on indigent care in hospitals by Mississippi Hospital Association, 1957.

               folder 74: Preliminary coordination study of proposed improvements in Pearl River Basin in Hinds and Rankin counties, February 1962.

               folder 75: Materials regarding water resources in North Carolina, 1955.

  • Box 9, folders 76-78: Materials regarding Jackson and Pearl River Valley water supply, 1957.

               folder 79: "Development of Technical Education in Mississippi Public Junior Colleges," report of Junior College Conference, November 19-20, 1957.

               folder 80: Masonic certificate of Thomas Mitchell Robinson, June 30, 1970.

  • Box 10, folder 81: Community development and employment security, March 1955.

               folder 82: Mississippi State Tax Commission Service Bulletin No. 51, May 1956.

               folder 83: Fifth Annual Inventory of Research in Mississippi, compiled by Mississippi Research Clearing House, August 1955.

               folder 84: The Federal Reserve Corporation, by Wickliffe B. Vennard.

               Individual membership directories, Jackson Chamber of Commerce, 1954-1955.

               Proceedings of the Industrial Water Conference, Mississippi State College

    , April 15, 1955.

               Water for the Future in Mississippi

    , report by Mississippi Water Resources Policy Commission, 1955-1956.
  • Box 11, folder 88: Biennial Report of the Mississippi Commission on Hospital Care, July 1, 1946-June 30, 1947.

               folder 89: Summary of a Mississippi statewide education study.

               folder 90: Income Payments to Mississippians, report by David McKinney, 1952.

               folder 91: The Contribution of Unconditional Federal Land Grants (Sixteenth Sections) to the Financial Support of the Public Schools of the State of Mississippi, by Luther N. Davis, November 1950.

  • Box 12: Handbooks, Mississippi legislature, 1936-1958.
  • Box 13: The M Book of Athletics, by John Wendell Bailey, 1930; the Mississippian, printed by students at Mississippi School for the Deaf, Jackson, 1947; and the Reveille, 1935.
  • Box 14: Miscellaneous printed materials.
  • Box 15: Resolution and certificates of Thomas Mitchell Robinson, 1917, 1950, 1955, and 1966.
  • Box 16: Sketches of Municipal Auditorium; Memorial Stadium; and two football stadium signs.