Archives International Auctions Auction 81 December 15th & 16th 2022

Archives International Auctions - Sale 81 82 December 15, 2022 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com 381 381 Correspondence with Averell Harriman, Ambassador at Large, 1967 Washington D.C., 1967. Correspondence between Matthew Lifflander (a New York Politian), his wife, and Averell Harriman, inviting Harriman to a dedication ceremony in Hasting-on-Hudson for a sculpture by artist Jacques Lipchitz. Averell Harriman was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. The son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman, he served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman, and later as the 48th Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956, as well as a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as “The Wise Men”. ������������������������������ Est. $50-100 382 382 Edmund Muskie Photograph and Autographs, 1968-72 Washington D.C., 1968-72. Signed photograph and correspondence from Edmund Muskie, an American statesman and political lea.....der who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, and a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951. He was the Democratic Party’s candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 presidential election, alongside Hubert Humphrey. Letters are printed on United States Senate letterhead. Born in Rumford, Maine, he worked as a lawyer for two years before serving in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Upon his return, Muskie served in the Maine State Legislature from 1946 to 1951, and unsuccessfully ran for the mayor of Waterville. Muskie was elected the 64th Governor of Maine in 1954 under a reform platform as the first Maine Democratic Party governor in almost 100 years. Muskie pressed for economic expansionism and instated environmental provisions. Muskie’s actions severed a nearly 100-year Republican stronghold and led to the political insurgency of the Maine Democrats. His legislative work during his career as a Senator coincided with an expansion of modern liberalism in the United States. He promoted the 1960s environmental movement which led to the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Clean Water Act of 1972. Muskie supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and opposed Richard Nixon’s “Imperial Presidency” by advancing New Federalism. Muskie ran with Humphrey against Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, losing the popular vote by 0.7 percentage points—one of the narrowest margins in U.S. history. He would go on to run in the 1972 presidential election where he secured 1.84 million votes in the primaries coming in fourth out of 15 contesters. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $50-100 383 383 Homer Cummings, Attorney General, 1935, Pair of Autographs Washington D.C., 1935. Pair of letters signed by Homer Cummings on Attorney General letterhead. Homer Stille Cummings (April 30, 1870 – September 10, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician who was the United States Attorney General from 1933 to 1939, being elected by President Roosevelt. Cummings transformed the Department of Justice by establishing uniform rules of practice and procedure in federal courts. He secured the passage of twelve laws that buttressed the “Lindbergh Law” on kidnapping, made bank robbery a federal crime, cracked down on interstate transportation of stolen property, and extended federal regulations over firearms. He strengthened the Federal Bureau of Investigation, called a national crime conference, supported the establishment of Alcatraz as a model prison for hardened offenders, and reorganized the internal administration of the department. (2). ������������������������������� Est. $40-80 384 384 James Farley,UnitedStates PostmasterGeneral, 1935,Autograph Washington D.C., 1935. Letter signed by James Farley on Postmaster General Letterhead. James Aloysius Farley (May 30, 1888 – June 9, 1976) was an American politician and Knight of Malta who simultaneously served as chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Postmaster General under President Franklin Roosevelt, whose gubernatorial and presidential campaigns were run by Farley. Farley was commonly referred to as a political kingmaker, as he was responsible for Roosevelt’s rise to the presidency as he was his campaign manager for Roosevelt’s 1928 and 1930 gubernatorial campaigns as well as Roosevelt’s presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936. Farley predicted large landslides in both, and revolutionized the use of polling data. He was also a business executive and dignitary. Known as the “muscle” of the New Deal and one of the architects of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA). Farley, in accordance with political tradition, was appointed by Roosevelt as Postmaster General. ���������������������������������� Est. $40-80