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Sources consulted for the biography of:Charles Rogers Fenwick (1900–1969)
Primary Sources
- Autobiographical information, including alumnus data forms (1940, 1944, 1945) in Deceased Alumni Files, RG-24/11/12.061, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Family and personal information confirmed by nephew, B. Parker Livingston Jr. (2008)
- Self-reported birth date in World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards (1917–1918), Record Group 163, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage Register, Arlington County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Charles Rogers Fenwick Papers, Accession no. 9857, and letters in several other collections, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Eastman-Fenwick Family Papers, Record Group 60, Arlington Community Archives, Center for Local History, Arlington County Public Library, Arlington, Virginia
- Correspondence and other materials in C. Harrison Mann, Jr., Digital Collection, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
- Information on 1945 primary in James Howe Latimer Papers, Accession no. 37623 (including notes and draft for article in Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 17, 1989), Library of Virginia
- James R. Sweeney, ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (2008).
Secondary Sources
- Robert C. Glass and Carter Glass, Jr., Virginia Democracy: A History of the Achievements of the Party and Its Leaders in the Mother of Commmonwealths, the Old Dominion (1937), 3:27–28
- Robert Lee Morton, Virginia Lives: The Old Dominion’s Who’s Who, 319–320 (with variant marriage date of December 28, 1929)
Newspapers
- Account of wedding in Washington Post, December 15, 1929
- Coverage of 1945 primary for the Democrats’ lieutenant governor nomination in Richmond News Leader, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Washington Post, August–September 1945, with judge's full opinion in Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 30, 1945
- Coverage of 1953 primary for the Democrats' gubernatorial nomination in Richmond News Leader and Richmond Times-Dispatch, January–July 1953
- Feature on 1945 primary race in Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dec. 17, 1989
Obituaries
- Richmond News Leader, February 22, 1969
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 23, 1969
- Washington Post, February 23, 1969
- Arlington Northern Virginia Sun, February 24, 1969 (with editorial tribute); February 25, 1969 (with account of funeral)
- Memorial in Journal of the Senate of Virginia, 1969 extra session, 25–26
- Memorial in Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1969), 381–382
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