HORACE A. HILDRETH - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 273878
Price: $70.00
HORACE A. HILDRETH
The Governor of Maine signs on the verso of a 5½x3¼ postal card.
Signature: "Horace A Hildreth/Governor of Maine 1945-1949/U.S
Ambassador/to Pakistan 1953-1957" on verso of postal card, 5½x3¼. 6-cent
imprinted postage with 2-cent Jefferson stamp affixed, postmarked Maine,
April 21, 1974. Address label to a collector in Arizona affixed on front.
Horace Augustus Hildreth (1902-1988) was the Republican Governor of Maine
from 1945-1949. During his tenure, Hildreth chaired the National Governors
Conference (1947-1948). A former attorney with a prestigious Boston law
firm, Hildreth had begun his political career in the Maine State House of
Representatives and the Maine State Senate (1943-1944). Unsuccessful
in a 1948 bid for U.S. Senator from Maine, Hildreth founded Community
Broadcasting Service in 1949. The company would establish the state's
first television station, WABI-TV, in 1953. That year, Hildreth began his
service as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (1953-1957). Lightly creased.
Postal markings touch two lines of writing (completely legible). Tape remnant at
lower blank margin on verso (light show through at lower margin on front).
Slightly soiled on front. Overall, fine condition.
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