HARRY HINES WOODRING - TYPED NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 89960
Sale Price $144.00
Reg. $160.00
HARRY WOODRING
Signed as Secretary of War, in which post he clashed with the
President.
Typed Note signed: "Harry H. Woodring", 5x3 printed War Department
card, with typed text, 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. Fine condition.
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