Description
Collection of signed photographs and documents from the estate of James B. Huggins of West Virginia, including President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy, and many more.
Collection of 14 signed photographs and other ephemera from the White House. Highlights include a signed photographs of the following notables: President Ronald Reagan (likely secretarial), Gov. Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Henry Kissinger, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Robert Byrd, test pilot Scott Crossfield, Ted Kennedy, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, West Virginia Attorney General Chauncey H. Browing Jr., Gov. Gaston Caperton, Tip O’Neill, and Al Gore. Includes an assortment of other ephemera.
Jim Huggins began working for Senator Byrd in 1973, serving as assistant to the majority whip, office manager, state director and more. Between 1985 and 1992, he ran Senator Byrd’s high-tech project office, helping transform West Virginia’s economy from heavy industry to high technology. Huggins proposed and helped design West Virginia projects worth over $500 million dollars that were approved and funded by Senator Byrd. in 1992, Higgins formed the Cottone and Huggins Group, a political consulting group.
