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Lot #76
Herbert Hoover Typed Letter Signed as President-Elect

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TLS as president-elect, one page, 7.25 x 10.75, personal letterhead, November 18, 1928. Addressed from Stanford University, a letter to three supporters from Arizona, in full: "I am grateful for your kind message of November 6. I deeply appreciate your good wishes and your expression of confidence is most encouraging." In fine condition, with some faint envelope-related toning. Accompanied by the. original mailing envelope. Twelve days earlier, on Tuesday, November 6, 1928, Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York, to become the 31st President of the United States.

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