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HARRY F. "MR. ECONOMY" BYRD SR. - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 293694

Ink signature on a card affixed to a page with a newspaper photo and his franked Senate envelope Signature: "Harry Byrd", as US Senator, 5x3 card.

Price: $70.00

Condition: Slightly soiled, otherwise fine condition
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HARRY BYRD
Ink signature on a card affixed to a page with a newspaper photo and his franked Senate envelope
Signature: "Harry Byrd", as US Senator, 5x3 card. Affixed to an 8½x11 page which also bears a newspaper photo and a Senate transmittal envelope with Byrd's ink stamp frank (3 surfaces). Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966), a conservative Democrat, was a former newspaper publisher and apple grower and had previously served as Governor of Virginia (1926-1930).He was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy in 1933. His financial expertise is evidenced by his appointments to the Committee on Finance and the Joint Committees of the Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures and Internal Revenue Taxation. Byrd's political organization dominated Virginia politics for many years. Byrd was the younger brother of Admiral and explorer, Richard Byrd. The Senator resigned in 1966, eleven months before he died. He was succeeded by his son, Harry F. Byrd, Jr. From the collection of Ralph Errington Ward (1926-2009) a fighter pilot and squadron commander in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. Ward went on to become President and CEO of Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc., transforming the cosmetics firm into a major home product conglomerate. Adhesive on verso (affixing card to the page). Slightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.

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