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Lot 48
ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. Early typed letter signed as New York Senator regarding his brief history in public office.
Albany: 23 February 1911. One page typed letter signed in ink "Franklin D. Roosevelt" on one sheet of Roosevelt's Senate stationery. The letter addressed to William Craig, Jr. of Philadelphia. 10 1/2 x 8 inches (26 x 22 cm); framed with an uncommon 1936 campaign flyer Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fairly Deserves Reelection. Usual folds, the signature dark, some showthrough at corners from old mounting, neither item examined out of frame.
In the second month of the first term of his first elected office, Franklin Roosevelt reports: "I beg to inform you that I have never held public office prior to my election to the New York State Senate, except that I was a member of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission in 1909. Very truly yours, Franklin D. Roosevelt." This unassuming letter was written at the outset of Roosevelt's political career, as he and a group of Democratic supporters attempted to dismantle Tammany Hall. For his courage in taking on the powerful political machine, Franklin was lauded as "the second coming of a Roosevelt," a reference to his popular cousin, former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt. After the State Senate, Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then Governor of New York, and died in office as President of the United States.
C The Collection of Barry Ferine
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