Lot 45
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Autograph on Executive Mansion Card, Plus Other Politicos and Notables from the 1930s (1882-1945) Signed State of New York Executive Mansion, Albany card by Franklin Roosevelt who became the 32nd President of the United States. Card is affixed in a Waterman's Autograph Album which also includes former First Lady, Edith Wilson, US Senator Huey P. Long, Senator of Louisiana (scarce!), C.C. Dill Senator of Washington, oil titan Louis B. "Tip" O'Neil boxer Jack Dempsey and, most interestingly, Margaret E. Thulin Waley who signed "Not a Kidnapper- But Had to Pay The Price," referencing her part in the notorious 1935 kidnapping of 9 year old George Weyerhauser, of the famed paper manufacturing empire. She claimed her Mormon faith forced her to obey her husband's kidnapping plans. (She got twenty years.) The balance of the autographs are Railroad executives and other notables. 28 signatures in all. Estimated Value $900 - UP
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