1975-83 New Jersey Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick signed autograph & photo set!

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Check it out...Here's a unique 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall photo & autograph set of 1975 to 1983 New Jersey Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick (Died in 1992). The photo of Ms. Fenwick smoking a pipe is tipped above a 3x5 unlined card that has been signed in black ink on front. Great set hand-signed by Ms. Fenwick herself! This is an ORIGINAL 100% Authentic item, NOT A REPRODUCTION, photocopy, stamped or a pre- printed item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
1975-83 New Jersey Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick signed autograph & photo set!
1975-83 New Jersey Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick signed autograph & photo set!
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Check it out...Here's a unique 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall photo & autograph set of 1975 to 1983 New Jersey Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick (Died in 1992). The photo of Ms. Fenwick smoking a pipe is tipped above a 3x5 unlined card that has been signed in black ink on front. Great set hand-signed by Ms. Fenwick herself!
Here is some info on Ms. Fenwick:
Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick (February 25, 1910 – September 16, 1992) was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm. She was regarded as a moderate and progressive within her party and was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement. Elected to Congress from New Jersey in 1974 aged 64, Fenwick became a media favorite during her four terms in the House of Representatives. Known for her opposition to corruption by both parties and special interest groups, she was called "the conscience of Congress" by television newscaster Walter Cronkite. She was one of the most liberal Republicans in the House. In 1975, the Helsinki Accords were negotiated in Helsinki, Finland. They were primarily an effort to reduce tension between the Soviet and Western blocs by securing their common acceptance of the post-World War II status quo in Europe. One week after the signing of the treaty, Fenwick went to Moscow as a junior member of a congressional delegation. She met refuseniks who wanted to contact American congressmen and held an unofficial meeting with dissident Yuri Orlov. She was thus convinced that political action in America based on the Helsinki Accords would improve human rights in the Soviet Union. Before departing, Fenwick raised some specific cases with Leonid Brezhnev at a final press conference. Returning to the U.S., Fenwick initiated the establishment of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), which oversaw the implementation of the Helsinki Accords. Despite her upper-class, society girl background, Fenwick went to Washington with a tough, blue collar work ethic. Virtually any night, hours after typical congressmen had headed out for dinner and home, she stayed working in her Capitol Hill office, and always was willing to answer reporters' questions about her actions. Once, when a conservative male congressman attacked a piece of women's rights legislation by saying, "I've always thought of women as kissable, cuddly, and smelling good," Fenwick responded, "That's what I've always thought about men, and I hope for your sake that you haven't been disappointed as many times as I've been." In 1982, she ran for a United States Senate seat, and defeated conservative Jeffrey Bell in the Republican primary. However, she then narrowly lost the general election to progressive Democratic businessman and Automatic Data Processing CEO Frank Lautenberg in an upset. Even Fenwick herself said in a subsequent interview, "I never expected to lose. I had no concession speech prepared, or anything. I never expected to lose." (In 2008, when Lautenberg was running for reelection to the Senate, his Republican opponents made an issue out of his age — 84 — arguing that he had voiced similar criticisms of the then-72-year-old Millicent Fenwick during the 1982 election campaign. Lautenberg denied having made an issue of Fenwick's age, saying he "only questioned her ability to do the job.") After leaving the House of Representatives following the 1982 election, Fenwick was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as United States Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. She held this position from June 1983 to March 1987, when she retired from public life at the age of 77. Fenwick died of heart failure in her home town of Bernardsville on September 16, 1992.
This is an ORIGINAL 100% Authentic item, NOT A REPRODUCTION, photocopy, stamped or a pre- printed item!
Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
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