EUGENE J. MCCARTHY - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/27/1962 - HFSID 36104
Price: $240.00
EUGENE J. McCARTHY. TLS: "Eugene McCarthy" as U.S.
Senator, 1p, 8x10½. United States Senate, 1962 March 27. To Mr.
Leslie W. Dunbar, Executive Director, Southern Regional Council, Inc., Atlanta,
Georgia. In full: "I have received your letter of March 23 and the
attached copy of Executive Support of Civil Rights. You and your
organization are to be congratulated for the positive steps you have taken to
secure equal rights and opportunities for all citizens, as well as visiting
diplomats and others from abroad. Please continue your fine work."
Written in the midst of the civil rights movement as displays of civil
disobedience in honor of civil rights were mounting. McCarthy (1916-2005), U.S.
Senator from Minnesota from 1959-1971, later sought the Democratic
nomination for President in 1968, running as an anti-Vietnam War candidate.
His defeat of President Johnson in the March New Hampshire primary led to New
York Senator Robert Kennedy's candidacy and Johnson's decision not to seek
reelection on March 31st. At the Democratic National Convention held in
Chicago, August 26-29, 1968, incumbent Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey won the
presidential nomination on the first ballot with 1,761¾ votes to McCarthy's 601
and South Dakota Senator George McGovern's 67½. At the 1972 Democratic National
Convention, McCarthy received two votes; the nomination went to McGovern on the
first ballot. Paper clip impression at upper left corner, horizontal fold
touches signature. Fine condition.
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