1937-61 New Hampshire Senator Styles Bridges signed TWO letter set-Harry Truman!

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Check it out...Here's a unique set of 2 (TWO!) different 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall typed letters from 1938 on the letterhead of the United States Senate, Committee on Appropriations that was sent by New Hampshire Senator H. Styles Bridges, one of which has been 100% authentically hand signed by Senator Bridges himself (died in 1961). It is interesting that the official committee letterhead also includes the name of future President Harry S Truman as a US Senator from Missouri at the top. The letter is dated May 17, 1938 and was sent to a Mr. William K Palmer 292 Chicopee St., Chicopee, Massachusetts. The letter reads: "Dear Mr. Palmer: thank you for your letter of May 13 together with the clipping you enclosed. I thought it was very interesting. I also enjoyed reading "Chicopee Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday." Sincerely yours, (signed in ink) H. Styles Bridges United States Senator" this letter is authentically hand sign by Senator Bridges. I'm including another letter dated May 7, 1938 written to the same man from Chicopee Mass that reads: "Dear Mr. Palmer: thank you for your communication of recent date. I am glad to have your views on the president's pump priming program and appreciate your thoughtfulness in writing me. Very truly yours, United States Senator Styles H Styles Bridges" but I believe this letter has been signed by a secretary and not by the Senator himself. They were found together so I'm selling them together. Folded as mailed. Uncommon signer indeed!
1937-61 New Hampshire Senator Styles Bridges signed TWO letter set-Harry Truman!
1937-61 New Hampshire Senator Styles Bridges signed TWO letter set-Harry Truman!
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Check it out...Here's a unique set of 2 (TWO!) different 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall typed letters from 1938 on the letterhead of the United States Senate, Committee on Appropriations that was sent by New Hampshire Senator H. Styles Bridges, one of which has been 100% authentically hand signed by Senator Bridges himself (died in 1961). It is interesting that the official committee letterhead also includes the name of future President Harry S Truman as a US Senator from Missouri at the top. The letter is dated May 17, 1938 and was sent to a Mr. William K Palmer 292 Chicopee St., Chicopee, Massachusetts. The letter reads: "Dear Mr. Palmer: thank you for your letter of May 13 together with the clipping you enclosed. I thought it was very interesting. I also enjoyed reading "Chicopee Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday." Sincerely yours, (signed in ink) H. Styles Bridges United States Senator" this letter is authentically hand sign by Senator Bridges. I'm including another letter dated May 7, 1938 written to the same man from Chicopee Mass that reads: "Dear Mr. Palmer: thank you for your communication of recent date. I am glad to have your views on the president's pump priming program and appreciate your thoughtfulness in writing me. Very truly yours, United States Senator Styles H Styles Bridges" but I believe this letter has been signed by a secretary and not by the Senator himself. They were found together so I'm selling them together. Folded as mailed. Uncommon signer indeed!
Here's some info on Senator Bridges:
Henry Styles Bridges (September 9, 1898 – November 26, 1961) was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as the 63rd Governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four-year career in the United States Senate. Bridges was born in West Pembroke, Maine, the son of Alina Roxanna (Fisher) and Earle Leopold Bridges. He attended the public schools in Maine. Bridges attended the University of Maine at Orono until 1918. From 1918 he held a variety of jobs, including teaching, newspaper editing, business and state government. He was an instructor at Sanderson Academy, Ashfield, Massachusetts from 1918 to 1919. He was a member of the extension staff of the University of New Hampshire at Durham from 1921 until 1922. He was the secretary of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation from 1922 until 1923, and the editor of the Granite Monthly Magazine from 1924 until 1926. Meanwhile, He was the director and secretary of the New Hampshire Investment Corporation from 1924 until 1929. He was then a member of the New Hampshire Public Service Commission from 1930 until 1934. Bridges ran for governor of New Hampshire in 1934, and won, becoming the nation's youngest governor at the time, according to John Gunther's book, Inside U.S.A. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1936, and would serve until his death in 1961. In 1937 he retired from the Army Reserve Corps, in which he had served as a Lieutenant since 1925. In 1940 he attempted to win the Republican nomination for President; the nomination was eventually won by Wendell Willkie. That same year, Bridges also received two delegates for the Republican vice presidential nomination, which eventually went to Charles L. McNary. Bridges broke his hip on New Year's Eve 1941, and missed several months of the next Senate session. Bridges was reelected to four subsequent terms in 1942, 1948, 1954, and 1960, but he did not complete his final term due to his death. He became the highest-ranking Republican senator, serving as chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation when the Republicans had control of the Senate from 1947 until 1949, Senate Minority Leader from 1952 until 1953, President pro tempore of the United States Senate when the Republicans had control of it from 1953 until 1955, chairman of the Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements for both of the inaugurations of President Dwight Eisenhower, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations when the Republicans had control of the Senate from 1947–1949 and 1953–1955, and Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1954 until his death. In the Senate, John Gunther wrote, Bridges was "an aggressive reactionary on most issues...and he is pertinaciously engaged in a continual running fight with the CIO, the Roosevelt family and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." Bridges was a staunch defender of Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, and was one of only 22 senators, all Republicans, who voted against the censure of McCarthy for his "red scare" communist witch hunts, and for his so-called "lavender scare" tactics aimed at homosexuals in 1954. Bridges was also a key collaborator, with fellow Republican Senators McCarthy and Herman Welker of Idaho in the harassment of Democratic Wyoming Senator Lester C. Hunt, harassment that led to Senator Hunt's suicide in his Capitol office on June 19, 1954. Bridges threatened that if he did not immediately retire from the Senate and agree not to seek reelection, Bridges would see that Hunt's son, Lester Hunt, Jr., who had been arrested for soliciting an undercover policeman, was prosecuted and that his son's homosexuality would be widely publicized. Bridges also threatened Inspector Roy Blick of the Morals Division of the Washington Police Department with the loss of his job for failing to prosecute Hunt Jr. Alex Ross in The New Yorker wrote in 2012 of an event "loosely dramatized in the novel and film Advise & Consent [in which] Senator Lester Hunt, of Wyoming, killed himself after ... Bridges ... threatened to expose Hunt's son as a homosexual". Bridges died of a heart attack on November 26, 1961, in East Concord and, after a service attended by a thousand people at the State House in Concord, was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. He was one of the poorest men ever elected governor and still of modest means when elected to the Senate, yet his widow Doloris told then Vice-President Lyndon Johnson that her husband had left her "a million dollars in cash". Bridges willed his East Concord home to the state to serve as a residence for New Hampshire's governors. The New Hampshire Governor's Mansion is known as "Bridges House". The "Styles Bridges Room" in the U.S. Capitol was named in his memory on March 12, 1981. Interstate 93 in New Hampshire, from Concord north to the Vermont state line, is named the Styles Bridges Highway. In December 2012, the Boston Globe called for the state to examine Bridges' role in Senator Lester Hunt's death and reconsider whether the state should continue to honor Bridges, or rename the highway.
What a great vintage item with a 100% authentic signature! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT REPRODUCTION item!
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