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HOMER E. CAPEHART - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/31/1945 - HFSID 293557

Brief typed letter on his U.S. Senate stationery Typed Letter signed: "Homer E. Capehart" as US Senator, 1 page, 8x½, affixed to an 8½x11 page which also bears a transmittal envelope with Capehart's stamped frank. Washington, D.C., July 31, 1945.

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HOMER CAPEHART
Brief typed letter on his U.S. Senate stationery
Typed Letter signed: "Homer E. Capehart" as US Senator, 1 page, 8x½, affixed to an 8½x11 page which also bears a transmittal envelope with Capehart's stamped frank. Washington, D.C., July 31, 1945. On letterhead of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce to Ralph Errington Ward, Washington, District of Columbia. In full: "I am indeed happy to send you my autograph as requested in your letter received July 30, 1945. Sincerely". 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 U.S. 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. From the collection of Ralph Errington Ward (1926-2009) a fighter pilot and squadron commander in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. Ward went on to become President and CEO of Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc., transforming the cosmetics firm into a major home product conglomerate. Multiple mailing folds. Lightly toned. Otherwise, fine condition.

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