LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACH - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 02/06/1946 - HFSID 291628
Price: $260.00
LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACH
Truman's Secretary of Labor writes to author Guy Lynn Sumner thanking
him for sending an inscribed copy of his book "Meet Abraham Lincoln".
Typed Letter signed: "L. B. Schwellenbach" as Truman's
Secretary of Labor, 1 page, 7x10. Washington, 1946 February 6. On
letterhead of The Secretary of Labor addressed to Mr. G. Lynn Sumner, New York,
New York. In full: "I deeply appreciate your thought-fulness in
sending me a personally-inscribed copy of your book, "Meet Abraham Lincoln". I
am much interested in this and am looking forward to an early opportunity of
reading it." 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. Multiple mailing
folds. Mounting residue at top corners on verso (light show through). Fine
condition.
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