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[POLITICAL COLLECTION]

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[POLITICAL COLLECTION]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[POLITICAL COLLECTION] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Assortment of three American politicians. TLsS, 1p each, 4to, 1960-72. US Senator from Illinois </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Everett Dirksen</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> (1896-1969), Aug 3, 1960, on his personal Senate Minority Leader letterhead, expresses condolences to a friend, adding “<i>I entertained some fears on this point when Mrs. Dirksen was badly burned in a brush fire recently, but she has just about recovered</i>...” On his personal Topeka letterhead, Jul 22, 1970, former governor of KS and 1936 Republican presidential candidate </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>Alf M. Landon</span></b><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1887-1987) reflects, “<i>Politics with me has always been an avocation rather than a vocation</i>...” All boldly signed. FDR’s Postmaster General </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>James A. Farley</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1888-1976), Dec 21, 1972, as CEO of Coco-Cola Export Corporation, thanks an admirer for letter and transmits a ‘<i>Tributes</i>’ booklet [not present] together with holiday greetings. Overall VG.</span></p>