1936 PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT CELLO POLITICAL CAMPAIGN PHOTO BUTTON 3.5” VF

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1936 PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT CELLO POLITICAL CAMPAIGN PHOTO BUTTON 3.5” VF:
$41.00

HERE’s an ORIGINALPIECE of FDR PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY - A 1936 Celluloid Presidential Campaign Pinback Buttonfeaturing a bust portrait photograph of FDR!A GENUINE MEMENTO OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOROOSEVELT’S POLITICAL CAMPAIGN VICTORY OVER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE ALF LANDON!

This celluloid pinback buttonmeasures a large 3 ½” in diameter and is in VERY FINE CONDITION!

NOTE:This pinback button was owned by Samuel S. Lewis, York County, PA politician,17th Lt. Governor of PA and alternate delegate to the 1904, 1944,1948 and 1952 RNC Conventions (See his bio below). I obtained this badge fromthe Lewis estate’s political memorabilia collection. As such, THIS PIN HAS NEVER SEEN THECOLLECTOR MARKET!

BIOGRAPHY of FRANKLINDELANO ROOSEVELT

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30,1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known as FDR, was an American statesmanand political leader who served as the President of the UnitedStates from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat,he won a record four presidential electionsand dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world eventsduring the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwideeconomic depression and totalwar. His program for relief, recovery and reform, known as theNewDeal, involved a great expansion of the role of the federalgovernment in the economy. As a dominant leader of the Democratic Party, hebuilt the New Deal Coalitionthat brought together and united labor unions, big city machines, whiteethnics, African Americans, and rural white Southerners in support of theparty. The Coalition significantly realigned American politics after 1932,creating the Fifth Party Systemand defining American liberalismthroughout the middle third of the 20th century.

Roosevelt was born in 1882, to anold, prominent Dutch family from Dutchess County, New York.He attended the elite educational institutions of GrotonSchool and HarvardCollege. At age 23, in 1905, he married EleanorRoosevelt, with whom he had six children. He entered politicsin 1910, serving in the New York State Senate,and then as Assistant Secretary ofthe Navy under President WoodrowWilson. In 1920, Roosevelt ran for vice president withpresidential candidate JamesM. Cox, but the Cox/Roosevelt ticketlost to the Republican ticket of WarrenHarding and CalvinCoolidge. Roosevelt was stricken withdebilitating polio in 1921, which cost him the use ofhis legs and put his future political career in jeopardy, but he attempted torecover from the illness, and founded the treatment centerfor people with polio in Warm Springs, Georgia.After returning to political life by placing AlfredE. Smith\'s name into nomination at the 1924 Democratic NationalConvention, Roosevelt, at Smith\'s behest, successfully ran forGovernor of New York in 1928. In office from 1929 to 1932, he served as areform governor promoting the enactment of programs to combat the Great Depressionbesetting the United States at the time.

In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt successfullydefeated incumbent Republican president HerbertHoover to win the presidency of the UnitedStates. Having been energized by his personal victory overhis polio,FDR relied on his persistent optimism and activism to renew the nationalspirit. In hisfirst hundred days in office, which began March4,1933, Roosevelt spearheaded unprecedented major legislation and issued aprofusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal—a variety ofprograms designed to produce relief (government jobs for the unemployed),recovery (economic growth), and reform (through regulation of Wall Street,banks and transportation). He created numerous programs to support theunemployed and farmers, and to encourage labor union growth while more closelyregulating business and high finance. The repeal of Prohibitionin 1933 added to his popularity, helping him win re-election by a landslide in1936. The economy improved rapidly from 1933 to 1937, but then relapsed into adeep recession in 1937–38. The bipartisan Conservative Coalitionthat formed in 1937 prevented his packing the SupremeCourt, and blocked almost all proposals for major liberallegislation (except the minimum wage, which did pass). When the war began andunemployment ended, conservatives in Congress repealed the two major reliefprograms, the WPA and CCC. However, they kept most of the regulations onbusiness. Along with several smaller programs, major surviving programs includethe Securities and ExchangeCommission, the WagnerAct, the Federal DepositInsurance Corporation and Social Security.

As World War II loomed after 1938, with the Japanese invasion of China andthe aggression of Nazi Germany, Roosevelt gave strong diplomatic and financialsupport to China and the United Kingdom, while remaining officially neutral.His goal was to make America the \"Arsenal of Democracy\",which would supply munitions to the Allies. In March1941, Roosevelt, withCongressional approval, provided Lend-Leaseaid to Britain and China. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harboron December7, 1941, which he called \"adate which will live in infamy\", Roosevelt soughtand obtained the quick approval, on December 8, of the United States Congressto declare war on Japan and, a few days later, on Germany. Assisted by his topaide Harry Hopkins, and with very strongnational support, he worked closely with British Prime Minister WinstonChurchill, Soviet leader JosephStalin and Chinese Generalissimo ChiangKai-Shek in leading the Alliesagainst Nazi Germany, FascistItaly and ImperialJapan in WorldWar II. He supervised the mobilization of the U.S. economyto support the war effort, and also ordered the internmentof 100,000 Japanese Americancivilians. As an active military leader, Roosevelt implemented a war strategyon two fronts that ended in the defeat of the AxisPowers and the development of the world\'s first nuclearbomb. His work also influenced the later creation of the UnitedNations and Bretton Woods.During the war, unemployment dropped to 2%, relief programs largely ended, andthe industrial economy grew rapidly to new heights as millions of people movedto wartime factory jobs or entered military service. Roosevelt\'s health seriously declined duringthe war years, and he died three months into his fourth term. He is often ratedby scholars as one of the topthree U.S. Presidents, along with AbrahamLincoln and GeorgeWashington.

BIOGRAPHY of SAMUEL LEWIS

THE FORMER OWNER OF THIS FDR BUTTON

Samuel S. \"Sam\" Lewis(February 17, 1874 – January 15, 1959) was a noted American politician and the17th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1939 to 1943.

Lewis was born in York, Pennsylvania on February 17, 1874. Thisunassuming, jovial, analytical man held several cabinet-level positions toseveral governors. He was a Republican, lawyer, postmaster, and delegate to theRepublican National Convention from Pennsylvania (as an alternate) in 1904,1944, 1948 and 1952.

He was Postmaster General at York, PA from 1906-1914, appointed byPresident Theodore Roosevelt and then President William Howard Taft. During his time as Postmaster, he rejuvenatedthe York Fair.

He was elected 22nd Auditor General of Pennsylvania from1921-1925 and then served as the 19th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from1925 - 1929. During the 1931-1935 administration of Gifford Pinchot, he was theSecretary of Highways and spearheaded the governor\'s ambitious ruraltransportation initiative to “get the farmer out of the mud.”

Lewis served as the 17th Lieutentant Governor of Pennsylvaniafrom 1939 – 1943 under Governor Arthur H. James.

From 1951 through 1953, he was Governor John S. Fine’s Secretary of theDepartment of Forests and Waters and oversaw all state parks and forests. Intwo years, Lewis reorganized and streamlined the department. \"Sam Lewis was the best man I ever workedunder. He was a genius at deciding what was good for the public and getting itdone quickly. He had the administrative tools to get anything done.\"Joe Ibberson, retired division chief, Bureau of Forestry

Sam S. Lewis died on January 15, 1959 at the age of 84 years, 332 days.

Samuel S. Lewis State Park was named to honor the Lt, Governor andSecretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Forest and Waters. This 85-acrestate park is dominated by Mt. Pisgah, an 885-foot-high ridge that separatesKreutz Creek Valley to the north and East Prospect Valley to the south. Thepark landscape also consists of mowed grass fields on the northern and Easternpark slopes, a pine plantation in the southern area, and mature woods in thewestern section.

Samuel S. Lewis donated 35 acres of his farm to the Commonwealth in 1954.Lewis convinced Walter Stine to sell his arboretum to the Commonwealth for areasonable price. The Commonwealth then purchased an additional 35 acres of theadjacent Almoney Farm to complete the initial park tract. The park opened tothe public on July 4, 1954. The Department of Conservation and NaturalResources purchased an additional 14 acres of land in 1999.

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