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1. Rush Holt Speaking at Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 013248
Title:: Rush Holt Speaking at Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01

2. Rush Holt and Others on the Platform at Mitchell Day Event in Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 013249
Title:: Rush Holt and Others on the Platform at Mitchell Day Event in Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01

3. Rush Holt Speaking at Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 013250
Title:: Rush Holt Speaking at Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01

4. Mitchell Day Crowd in Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 013251
Title:: Mitchell Day Crowd in Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01

5. Speaker and Guests at Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 013253
Title:: Speaker and Guests at Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01

6. Mitchell Day Crowd in Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 013254
Title:: Mitchell Day Crowd in Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01

7. Crowd Gathered for Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 013256
Title:: Crowd Gathered for Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01

UMWA band from Hepzibah, W. Va. is one of the participants.

8. Parade on Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 013262
Title:: Parade on Mitchell Day in Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01
Description:: UMWA band from Hepzibah, W. Va. is one of the participants.

Holt was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1931-1954 and a senator from 1935-1941 on the Democratic ticket. By 1936, Holt emerged as a vocal conservative critic of the New Deal, attacking, for example, the Works Progress Administration as corrupt and inefficient. He switched to the Republican party in 1949.

9. Senator Rush D. Holt Speaking to Crowd, Shinnston, W. Va.

IDNO:: 052369
Title:: Senator Rush D. Holt Speaking to Crowd, Shinnston, W. Va.
Date:: 1936/04/01
Description:: Holt was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1931-1954 and a senator from 1935-1941 on the Democratic ticket. By 1936, Holt emerged as a vocal conservative critic of the New Deal, attacking, for example, the Works Progress Administration as corrupt and inefficient. He switched to the Republican party in 1949.