GOVERNOR LINWOOD HOLTON - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1970 - HFSID 315609
Price: $120.00
LINWOOD HOLTON
Image of Virginia's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction, signed during his
first year in that office
Photograph inscribed and signed: "With best wishes/to Robert J. Robuck/and his son Michael
-/Linwood Holton/Governor of Virginia/November 1970". B/w, 8x10. Abner Linwood Holton,
Jr. (1923-2021) was the first Republican Governor of Virginia (1970-1974) since
Reconstruction. Holton opposed his Party's "southern strategy" of wooing conservative
Democrats with very conservative policies. He supported court-ordered school desegregation
and sent his own children to a primarily black public school in Richmond. Holton's
son-in-law, DemocratTim Kaine, was elected Governor of Virginia (2006-2010) and US
Senator in 2012. Corners lightly creased. Ink note (unknown hand) on verso. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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