WILBUR D. MILLS - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 34637
Price: $120.00
WILBUR MILLS
Signature in black ink on a 5x3 card with typed caption
Signature: "Wilbur D Mills", 5x3. Typed caption above
signature. Wilbur Daigh Mills (1909-1992) represented Arkansas in the US
House of Representatives from 1939 to 1977. He chaired the powerful House
Ways and Means Committee for 18 years (1957-1975), longer than anyone else
in history. Mills was considered Congress' principal tax expert, and
his support was crucial to passage of the Medicare bill. Mills sought the
Democratic Presidential nomination in 1972. In 1974, when Mills was stopped for
drunk driving in Washington, stripper Fanne Foxe, "the Argentine
firecracker," dashed from his car and leaped into the Tidal Basin.
Re-elected despite this scandal, Mills wrote a finish to his career by appearing
on stage with Foxe at a Boston burlesque and then giving a press conference in
her dressing room. Pleading alcoholism, Mills retired from Congress. When he
sobered up, Mills redeemed himself by becoming a national advocate and
fund-raiser for treatment of substance abuse. The Wilbur Mills Treatment
Center is named for him. Lightly toned. Horizontal crease lower section. Pencil
note (unknown hand) on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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