Important Idaho US Senator William E. Borah hand signed Abraham Lincoln letter!

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Here's a very unique 8" wide by 10 1/2" tall typed & signed/autographed letter from 1909 on the official letterhead of the: "United States Senate. Committee On Standards, Weights & Measures." that has been 100% HAND-SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by longtime Idaho Senator William E. Borah (Died in 1940)- Letter has GREAT content about the Abraham Lincoln Centennial. The letter reads: "Will you permit me to make another suggestion. I spoke at three banquets during the Lincoln Centennial banquets and at each banquet just before the speakers commenced they took one of those flash-light photographs which put the speaker out of commission about fifteen minutes owing to the smoke, gas, etc. This sometimes disables a man for the entire speech. I do not know whether such things happen at your banquets or not but if they do I hope it will not inconvenience the photographer to do work either at the beginning when we sit down or after we get through speaking. A man does not like to disappoint his audience but he sometimes has to do so at best and especially if he is speaking under such circumstances. I hope you will pardon me for these suggestions and accept them in the spirit in which they are made. Very respectfully, (signed in ink) Wm. E. Borah." Letter has been cut up, I assume for display (See pictures below)- Mailed to "Hon. Marquis Eaton, Pres. Hamilton Club Chicago, Ill."- Historic item. Could be a real sleeper item. This is an ORIGINAL 100% authentic ONE-OF-A-KIND item, NOT A REPRODUCTION! $ 4.95 postage is required.
Important Idaho US Senator William E. Borah hand signed Abraham Lincoln letter!
Important Idaho US Senator William E. Borah hand signed Abraham Lincoln letter!
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very
unique
8" wide by 10 1/2" tall typed & signed/autographed letter from 1909 on the official letterhead of the: "United States Senate. Committee On Standards, Weights & Measures."
that has been 100% HAND-SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by longtime Idaho Senator William E. Borah (Died in 1940)- Letter
has GREAT content about the Abraham Lincoln Centennial. The letter reads: "Will you permit me to make another suggestion. I spoke at three banquets during the Lincoln Centennial banquets and at each banquet just before the speakers commenced they took one of those flash-light photographs which put the speaker out of commission about fifteen minutes owing to the smoke, gas, etc. This sometimes disables a man for the entire speech. I do not know whether such things happen at your banquets or not but if they do I hope it will not inconvenience the photographer to do work either at the beginning when we sit down or after we get through speaking. A man does not like to disappoint his audience but he sometimes has to do so at best and especially if he is speaking under such circumstances. I hope you will pardon me for these suggestions and accept them in the spirit in which they are made. Very respectfully, (signed in ink) Wm. E. Borah." Letter has been cut up, I assume for display (See pictures below)- Mailed to "Hon. Marquis Eaton, Pres. Hamilton Club Chicago, Ill."- Historic item.
Could be a real sleeper item.
Here's some info on Mr. Borah:
William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history. A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often considered an isolationist, because he led the Irreconcilables, senators who would not accept the Treaty of Versailles, Senate ratification of which would have made the U.S. part of the League of Nations. Borah was born in rural Illinois to a large farming family. He studied at the University of Kansas and became a lawyer in that state before seeking greater opportunities in Idaho. He quickly rose in the law and in state politics, and after a failed run for the House of Representatives in 1896 and one for the United States Senate in 1903, was elected to the Senate in 1907. Before he took his seat in December of that year, he was involved in two prominent legal cases. One, the murder conspiracy trial of Big Bill Haywood, gained Borah fame though Haywood was found not guilty and the other, a prosecution of Borah for land fraud, made him appear a victim of political malice even before his acquittal. In the Senate, Borah became one of the progressive insurgents who challenged President William Howard Taft's policies, though Borah refused to support former president Theodore Roosevelt's third-party bid against Taft in 1912. Borah reluctantly voted for war in 1917 and, once it concluded, he fought against the Versailles treaty, and the Senate did not ratify it. Remaining a maverick, Borah often fought with the Republican presidents in office between 1921 and 1933, though Calvin Coolidge offered to make Borah his running mate in 1924. Borah campaigned for Herbert Hoover in 1928, something he rarely did for presidential candidates and never did again.Deprived of his post as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the Democrats took control of the Senate in 1933, Borah agreed with some of the New Deal legislation, but opposed other proposals. He ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1936, but party regulars were not inclined to allow a longtime maverick to head the ticket. In his final years, he felt he might be able to settle differences in Europe by meeting with Hitler; though he did not go, this has not enhanced his historical reputation. Borah died in 1940; his statue, presented by the state of Idaho in 1947, stands in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
This is an ORIGINAL 100% authentic ONE-OF-A-KIND item, NOT A REPRODUCTION!
Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
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