"ROOSEVELT-FARLEY DELEGATES" 1940 WISCONSIN POSTER.
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$115.00 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM)
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Auction #219 - Part I
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Item Description
14x22" cardboard poster. Features portrait of Roosevelt at center flanked by candidates for "Delegate-At-Large." Mostiure stain along top 5" and 1/4x1-1/2" vertical surface paper loss at top right. Good/VG. Scarce. As the 1940 convention grew near, FDR refused to publicly seek a third term, only indicating that he could not decline the nomination if his supporters drafted him at the 1940 convention. Farley (Chairman of the DNC) was left without a legitimate candidate. Roosevelt would publicly support Cordell Hull after privately telling Farley and others they could seek the nomination. These Wisconsin delegates were campaigning to draft Roosevelt as the Democratic nominee yet supported Farley in the event that FDR did not get the nomination. Small text at bottom of this poster reads "Authorized, Circulated And Paid For By The Official Endorsed Roosevelt/Farley Campaign Club, Frank J. Kuhl, Chairman, Milwaukee Wisconsin." This is a pre-national convention poster. Roosevelt did accept the nomination much to Farley's disappointment who resigned his position as Postmaster General and party chairman because of it.
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