HARRY HINES WOODRING - TYPED NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 318461
Sale Price $144.00
Reg. $160.00
HARRY WOODRING
Typed Note signed on his card as Secretary of War
Typed Note signed: "Harry H. Woodring as Secretary of
War, 5x3 printed War Department card. In full: "I am pleased to
add my autograph to your collection. Yours very truly". Harry Woodring
(1887-1967) entered the banking business on the bottom rung, as a janitor,
but rose to be a bank president and V.P. of the Kansas Bankers
Association. A World War I veteran, he also became state commander of the
American Legion. A Democrat in a heavily Republican state, he won
election as Governor when an independent candidate split the vote, but lost
narrowly two years later to Alf Landon, who would be President Roosevelt's
Republican opponent in the 1936 Presidential election. Woodring was appointed
Assistant Secretary of War in 1933 and became full Secretary in 1936. As an
isolationist, he opposed Roosevelt's active military aid to warring Britain.
After FDR asked for his resignation in 1940, Woodring complied, but warned,
"we are not ready for a major war." He returned to Kansas and ran for Governor
two more times, not winning but garnering a respectable vote. Pencil note
(unknown hand) on verso. Lightly toned around edges. Fine
condition.
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