Senator T. Herman Vann Collection
Content Description
Personal, documents, correspondences, news clippings, legislative materials relating to the career of Senator T. Herman Vann.
Dates
- Creation: 1944 - 1978
Creator
- Vann, Thomas Herman (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.
Conditions Governing Use
This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
Biographical / Historical
T. Herman Vann of Huntsville, Alabama was born January 3, 1914. He was the son of Robert Wiley and Hester (Carpenter) Vann. He was a farmer, owner of North Alabama Implement Co., and President of Huntsville Production Credit Association.
He completed a pre-law course in addition to Commerce and Education at the University of Alabama. He also completed several courses in Agriculture from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn.
He was a member of the House of Representatives from Madison County, 1947-1951. He was elected to the State Senate for a four-year term in 1954. He served on the Madison County Committee of the Farm Home Administration, and the Madison County Board of Tax Equalization. He was on the Board of Directors for the Madison County Exchange, and the Madison County Drought Relief committee. He was the President of Madison County Cattlemen's Association, and the Madison County Farmers Association.
He was a Democrat, a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, and a member of the Optimist Club.
He was married to Carolyn Elizabeth Adams, of Tuscaloosa, with whom he had three children: Macklyn Morris, and twins Mary Glenda and Linda Lee.
Extent
2.5 Linear feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, and competing priorities. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections as they are acquired and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
- Author
- Amina Divoll
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives & Special Collections Repository
M. Louis Salmon Library
301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35899 Alabama 35899 United States of America
256-824-6526
archives@uah.edu