HENRY MORGENTHAU JR. - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 293509

HENRY MORGENTHAU
Signature on a card affixed to a sheet with a magazine photo showing him tending tulips
Signature: "Autograph/of/Henry Morgenthau", 5x3 printed card, affixed to an 8½x11 page (4 surfaces) which also bears an envelope showing his New York return address on the flap, and also a b/w magazine photo of him tending tulips. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1967) held several posts under his life-long friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Governor of New York (1929-1933). When FDR became President, he appointed Morgenthau Assistant Secretary, and then Secretary of the Treasury (1934-1945). Morgenthau continued in the office until President Truman could name a successor. To finance the New Deal and World War II, Morgenthau raised more money through loans and taxes than all of the 51 previous Treasury Secretaries combined. Among his achievements were defending the dollar against Nazi Germany's efforts to destabilize it and facilitating loans for military purchases by US allies. In 1944, he proposed the Morgenthau Plan to strip postwar Germany of industry and reduce it to an agricultural nation. He was Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal from 1947 to 1950.From the collection of Frank Errington Ward (1926-2009). Ward, a fighter pilot and squadron commander in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, who went on to become President and CEO of Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc., transforming the cosmetics firm into a major home product conglomerate. Adhesive on bottom of verso (affixing card to the page). Otherwise, fine condition.