HENRY MORGENTHAU JR. - TYPED NOTE SIGNED 07/22/1935 - HFSID 26516
Sale Price $175.00
Reg. $220.00
HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR
As Secretary of the Treasury, he raised and spent more money than his 51
predecessors combined.
Typed Letter signed: "H Morgenthau Jr." as FDR's Secretary of the
Treasury, 5½x4¼ card. Washington, D.C., 1935 July 22. To "Dear Mr.
Hoffmeister". In full: "It gives me great pleasure to add my
autograph to your collection. Sincerely". 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 (1934-1945) of the
Treasury. 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. Unevenly
toned. Slightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.
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