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CALVIN COOLIDGE
Thanks for circulating a nomination petition for his third term as Lieutenant Governor.
TLS: "Calvin Coolidge" as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1p, 6¾x8½. State House, Boston, 1917 August 18. To Arthur H. Tuttle, Chairman, Republican Committee, Sheffield, Massachusetts. In full: "The nomination paper you were so kind as to circulate for me has been returned. No doubt you would know without my telling you how much I value and appreciate your services and support, but I should not feel I was doing my part not to send you a word of gratitude for such a substantial favor. The faithful, efficient, and unselfish work of our Committeemen, and those who aid them, is the strength of our party and is worthy of every honorable recognition." In 1998, Michael S. Dukakis, former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic candidate for President, wrote the following about Calvin Coolidge's political career in the period before and at the time he wrote this letter: "With the Democrat David I. Walsh in the governor's office and the Democrats having taken control of the House, Coolidge for all intents and purposes became the state's leading State House Republican. He was reelected for a fourth term to the State Senate in 1914 by his biggest majority; won the Senate Presidency by a unanimous vote; and became Samuel McCall's running mate on the Republican ticket for governor and lieutenant-governor in 1915. McCall barely squeaked by Walsh with a margin of 6000 votes out of nearly half a million cast but Coolidge won easily with a majority of over fifty thousand, and he rolled up even bigger majorities in the two subsequent McCall-Coolidge campaigns. In fact, in 1917, in his third campaign for lieutenant-governor, Coolidge came within a mere 2,500 votes of carrying Democratic Boston. While his first campaign for governor in 1918 against Richard Long, a Framingham shoe manufacturer, was closer than he and his supporters expected, he beat Long a second time in 1919 by well over a hundred thousand votes and beat him in all but three of the state's cities. Twenty years after he had first entered local politics in Northampton, he had become the state's most popular political leader." In 1920, Coolidge was elected Harding's Vice President and became President when President Harding died in 1923. Light spreading of type and transference in blank areas. Lightly creased at mid-horizontal fold. Fine condition.

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