LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACH - AUTOGRAPH 07/26/1945 - HFSID 26595
Sale Price $135.00
Reg. $160.00
LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACH
Signature as Secretary of Labor on a 5x3 card with typed
caption
Signature: "L. B. Schwellenbach" as Secretary of Labor,
5x3 card with typed caption and date (July 26, 1945). Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach
(1894-1948) a Seattle lawyer with close ties to the labor movement, was
elected to the US Senate as Democrat in 1934. A staunch supporter of the
New Deal, he was appointed a federal district judge by FDR in 1940.
Earlier that year, he had been one of the few nationally prominent Democrats
to campaign for Harry Truman in a tough primary fight for re-nomination to
the Senate. When Truman became President, he picked Schwellenbach for
Secretary of Labor, a tough job in an era when pent-up wage demands after
World War II triggered a wave of strikes, and when the Republican Congress
passed the Taft-Hartley labor legislation over President Truman's veto.
Schwellenbach served until his death. Slightly worn at edges. Slightly soiled.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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