Michigan Senator Prentiss M Brown signed Senate Pass & photo Mackinac Bridge!

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Check it out...Here's an 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall AUTOGRAPH & photo of 1936-43 Michigan Senator Prentiss M. Brown (died in 1973) -Brown is best remembered as the "Father of the Macinac Bridge" (See info / bio below)-The signature is signed on an @ 2 3/4" tall by 4 1/4" wide official cardboard visitor's pass issued by his office back in the 1930-40s Era to see the United States Senate Chamber in person-How cool is that? Card features an ink fountain pen on the front and is tipped to a larger orange backer with a photo of Mr. Brown on front. Uncommon signature indeed! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
Michigan Senator Prentiss M Brown signed Senate Pass & photo Mackinac Bridge!
Michigan Senator Prentiss M Brown signed Senate Pass & photo Mackinac Bridge!
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Check it out...Here's an 8 1/2" wide by 11" tall AUTOGRAPH & photo of 1936-43 Michigan Senator Prentiss M. Brown (died in 1973) -Brown is best remembered as the "Father of the Macinac Bridge" (See info / bio below)-The signature is signed on an @ 2 3/4" tall by 4 1/4" wide official cardboard visitor's pass issued by his office back in the 1930-40s Era to see the United States Senate Chamber in person-How cool is that? Card features an ink fountain pen on the front and is tipped to a larger orange backer with a photo of Mr. Brown on front. Uncommon signature indeed!
Here is some info on Mr. Brown:
Prentiss Marsh Brown (June 18, 1889 – December 19, 1973) was a Democratic U.S. Representative and Senator from the state of Michigan. Brown was born in St. Ignace, Michigan and attended the public schools there. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated from Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 1911. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1914 and commenced practice in St. Ignace. Brown married Marion Walker in 1916. The couple had a total of seven children. Brown was prosecuting attorney of Mackinac County from 1914 to 1926 and the city attorney of St. Ignace from 1916 to 1928. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1924 to the United States House of Representatives and in 1928 for election as justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He was a member of the State Board of Law Examiners from 1930 to 1942. Brown was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the United States House of Representatives for the 73rd Congress and was reelected to the 74th Congress, serving from March 4, 1933, until his resignation, effective November 18, 1936. He was elected as a Democrat on November 3, 1936, to the United States Senate for the term beginning January 3, 1937, but was subsequently appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Couzens for the term ending January 3, 1937. In total, he served from November 19, 1936, to January 3, 1943. He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Claims in the Seventy-seventh Congress. He was also a member of the Banking and Currency Committee, and in this capacity was instrumental in helping Franklin D. Roosevelt achieve his desired wage and farm price controls. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1942. In December 1942, Roosevelt selected Brown to take over as administrator of the Office of Price Administration, replacing Leon Henderson, whose tenure as administrator was listed as one of the major reasons for Democratic losses in the 1942 elections. In 1943 he resumed the practice of law in both Washington, D.C., and Detroit, Michigan. He also served as chairman of the Detroit Edison Company. In 1951, Brown was named chairman of the new Mackinac Bridge Authority and served until his death. During his chairmanship, this authority oversaw the construction of Michigan's Mackinac Bridge. He once stated during a radio interview that he came up with the idea for the Mackinac Bridge after an unusually bitter winter one day disrupted his commute to work by ferry and forced him to cross the strait on the brittle icy lake surface. Brown died in St. Ignace at the age of 84 and is interred there at Lakeside Cemetery. Two of Brown's children were also active in Democratic party politics. Prentiss M. Brown, Jr., ran unsuccessfully for Congress several times, in 1952, 1956, 1958, and 1960, and was the city attorney for St. Ignace for 50 years. Paul Walker Brown was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan from 1971 until 1994, and ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1974. He has been called the "father of the Mackinac Bridge." His import was so great that his visage was placed on a special memorial bridge token created by the Mackinac Bridge Authority.
This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item!
Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
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