HOMER E. CAPEHART - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 258644
Price: $80.00
HOMER CAPEHART
Capehart signs autograph in black ink
Signatrue: "Homer E. Capehart ". 3½x2 card. Homer Earl Capehart (1897-1947), a veteran
of WWI, is known as "the father of the jukebox industry" for developing the Simplex
mechanism for automatically changing records (his company, Packard, was eventually
bought by Wurlitzer). By the end of World War II, there were over 2 million jukeboxes in
service in the US. In 1938. Capehart hosted a "Cornfield Conference" on his farm, a meeting
which helped revitalize the Republican Party in the Midwest. Elected to the US Senate from
Indiana in 1945, he served three full terms, narrowly losing a fourth bid in 1962. He
sponsored funding of housing for military families and advocated clean air legislation. He was
among the first to warn of the danger of the relationship between Cuba and the U.S.S.R.,
years before the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis. Fine condition.
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