Lot 1053
Politicians Who Made Unsuccessful Vice Presidential Candidates -- Collection of Over 30 Items. This lot consist primarily of autograph letters signed and typed letters signed. Signers include (presidential running mate and the election year are noted in parentheses): Jared Ingersoll (DeWitt Clinton, 1812), Richard Rush (John Quincy Adams, 1828), John Sergeant (Henry Clay, 1832), Francis Granger (William H. Harrison, 1836), Theodore Frelinghuysen (Henry Clay, 1844), William Alexander Graham (Winfield Scott, 1852), William L. Dayton (John C. Frémont, 1856), Edward Everett (John Bell, 1860), Herschel Vespasian (Stephen A. Douglas, 1860), George Hunt Pendleton (George McClellan, 1864), Francis Blair (Horatio Seymour, 1868), John A. Logan (James Blaine, 1884), Allen G. Thurman (Grover Cleveland, 1888), Whitelaw Reid (Benjamin Harrison, 1892), James G. Field (James B. Weaver, 1892), Hiram W. Johnson (Theodore Roosevelt, 1912), Nicholas M. Butler (William Howard Taft, 1912), Charles W. Bryan (John W. Davis, 1924), Burton K. Wheeler (Robert M. La Follette, Sr., 1924), Joseph Taylor Robinson (Al Smith, 1928), Frank Knox (Alf Landon, 1936), John W. Bricker (Thomas E. Dewey, 1944), Fielding L. Wright (Strom Thurmond, 1948), Glen H. Taylor (Henry A. Wallace, 1948), John Sparkman (Adlai Stevenson II, 1952), Estes Kefauver (Adlai Stevenson II, 1956), Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Richard Nixon, 1960), William E. Miller (Barry Goldwater, 1964), Edmund Muskie (Hubert Humphrey, 1968), Patrick J. Lucey (John B. Anderson, 1980), Geraldine Ferraro (Walter Mondale, 1984), Lloyd Bentsen (Michael Dukakis, 1988), and Jack Kemp (2; Bob Dole, 1996). Very good to fine condition. Accompanied by a few transmittal envelopes and related ephemera. Estimated Value $300 - UP
From The Private Collection of James Harrison Ring.
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