HORACE A. HILDRETH - PRINTED CARD SIGNED IN INK - HFSID 293797
Price: $90.00
HORACE A. HILDRETH
The Governor of Maine signs on this 4x2½ card with the Maine state seal imprinted at
top left
Printed Card Signed in Ink: "Horace Hildreth", 4x2½ card, with the Maine state seal imprinted
at top left, affixed to an 8½x11 page, with a B/w newspaper photograph of Hildreth with his
council in the woods. (3 surfaces). 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). From the
collection Ralph Errington Ward (1926-2009) a fighter pilot and squadron commander in
the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. Ward became President and CEO of
Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc., transforming the cosmetics firm into a major home product
conglomerate. Adhesive on verso (affixing card to the page). Otherwise, fine condition.
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