CLINTON P. ANDERSON - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 70322
Price: $90.00
CLINTON P. ANDERSON
Signature on a small card, with his home state (New Mexico) added
Signature: "Clinton P Anderson/ N.M.". 3½x2. Anderson (1895-1975, born in Centerville,
South Dakota) was an American politician who served as a Congressman (1941-1945) and a
Senator (1949-1975) from New Mexico and as Secretary of Agriculture under President
Harry S. Truman (1945-1948). As a Senator, Anderson was a vocal supporter of the United
States' space program and, as Chair of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space
Sciences from 1963 to 1973, was important in funding NASA. His road to Washington was
a winding and tortuous one. He had to leave college in 1916, after his father broke his back, to
support his family. He worked as a newspaper reporter until he was diagnosed with
tuberculosis in 1917. Anderson was sent to a New Mexico sanitarium to recover and, after
leaving in 1919, got a job as a reporter there. Unhappy with the Republican Party there, he
befriended several state Democrats and, in 1919, began his political career as Executive
Secretary to the state Public Health Association. After a brief stint in business, he returned to
the public sector in 1928 as Chairman of the New Mexico State Party, and in 1933, the first
of many state positions. Lightly toned and stained. Signature is lightly smeared. Paper clip
impression near upper left corner. Otherwise in fine condition.
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