Bridges, Styles, - Card acknowledging sympathy edges in black dated 1938.

np, np, (1938 postmark). VG. Card printing reads "Styles Bridges and family gratefully acknowledge with deepest appreciation your kind remembrance and. sympathy", postmarked June 9 1938, 2:30 p.m., Concord, N.H., with 3 cent stamp attached, in black edged envelope torn at top. Styles Bridges was a former N.H. governor, born 9/9/1898 in W. Pembroke, Maine, and died 11/26/1961, American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, staunch supporter of Joseph McCarthy, friend of J. Edgar Hoover whom he allegedly used to spy on political enemies, anti-New Deal and FDR, and called FDR's 1932 election a "ghastly mistake". Stridently conservative, nonetheless one of the strongest supporters of unemployment relief, and in 1935 asked FDR's administration for an additional $20 million for "direct relief" from the Emergency Relief Administration, driven in part by the collapse of the textile industry in New England.

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