FRANK KNOX - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/18/1941 - HFSID 291685
Price: $220.00
FRANK KNOX
As Secretary of the Navy, he accepts congratulations for a
speech
Typed Letter signed: "Frank Knox" as Secretary of the
Navy, 1 page, 8x10½. Washington, D.C., 1941 March 18. On
official letterhead to Claude T. Barnes, Salt Lake City, Utah. In full:
"Your gracious telegram of March 17 reached me while I was still at the
Banquet table of the Annual Dinner of the Hibernian Society in Baltimore. I am
delighted that you thought so well of my speech and am most grateful to you for
taking the trouble to tell me so. Yours sincerely". Newspaper editor and
publisher Frank Knox (1874-1944), a soldier in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders
during the Spanish-American War and an artillery officer in France during
World War I, was the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1936. Both
Landon and Knox had supported Theodore Roosevelt's third party candidacy for
President in 1912, the only Republican nominees for the top offices to have done
so. The Landon-Knox ticket carried only the states of Maine and Vermont
in 1936. In 1940, President Roosevelt, seeking bipartisan support for his
foreign and defense policies, named Knox as Secretary of the Navy, where the
former opponent promoted the rapid naval buildup FDR desired, serving until his
death.Filling holes at top edge. Multiple mailing folds. Lightly
creased. Otherwise, fine condition,
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