MARGARET CHASE SMITH - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 02/12/1952 - HFSID 293576
Price: $220.00
MARGARET CHASE SMITH
Brief letter signed on her personal Senate letterhead
Typed Letter signed: "Margaret Chase Smith" as US
Senator, 1 page, 6½x7. Washington, D.C., 1952 February 12.
On her personal Senate letterhead to Ralph E. Ward, Melrose Highlands,
Massachusetts. In full: "In compliance with your request, I am sending
you my autograph for your collection. Sincerely yours". Republican
MARGARET CHASE SMITH (1897-1995) was Maine's U.S.
Representative (1940-1949) and U.S. Senator (1949-1973). In 1964 she
became the first woman nominated for President at a major party's
convention), and she was reportedly considered as Barry Goldwater's running
mate that year. A visiting professor for the Woodrow Wilson National Scholarship
Foundation (1973-1976), Smith was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom in 1989. 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. Mailing folds. Adhesive mounting residue on verso.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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