Lot 136
Memorabilia of Governors and other Statesmen. TLS by Thomas E. Dewey, as District Attorney of NY, 1939; TLS by Sam Rayburn, as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; TLS by Fiorella LaGuardia, as Mayor of NYC, 1942; TLS by Henry M. Jackson as U.S. representative; ISP by James A. Farley, Postmaster General for FDR, no date; and card signed by Gov. George Wallace, 1978. With a group of nine cards admitting the bearer to the House of Representatives (7) and to the Senate (2), dated from 1922 to 1953.
Also present are invitations to gubernatorial inaugural festivities for the following states and years: West Virginia, 1877; Texas, 1927; Washington, 1917; New York, 1927; Florida, 1949; Texas, 1957; Massachusetts, 1961; Texas, 1963; Michigan, 1965; Georgia, 1971; Maryland, 1971; Connecticut, 1979; Iowa, 1965; Florida, 1983; California, 1987; Texas, 1991; Pennsylvania, 1995; Texas, 2000; and California, 2003.
Other miscellaneous political memorabilia includes Stevenson/Kefauver presidential campaign program, 1956; an invitation to the Golden Jubilee of the Republican Party, 1906, a Jefferson Day Dinner, sponsored by the Democratic National Committee, 1947; and a program of ceremonies dedicating President Franklin Roosevelt's home, Hyde Park, as a national historic site, 1946. Estimate Value $200 - 300
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