\"Secretary of War\" Harry Hines Woodring Hand Signed FDC Dated 1933 COA For Sale

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\"Secretary of War\" Harry Hines Woodring Hand Signed FDC Dated 1933 COA:
$149.99

Up for sale "Secretary of War" Harry Hines Woodring Signed First Day Cover Dated 1933. This item is certified authentic by JG

Autographs and comes with their Letter of Authenticity.

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Harry

Hines Woodring (May

31, 1887 – September 9, 1967) was an American politician. A Democrat, he

was the 25th Governor of Kansas and

was Secretary of War in

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's

administration from 1936 to 1940. He was previously the United

States Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936. Harry

Hines Woodring was born in 1887 in Elk City, Kansas, the son of farmer and Union Army soldier

Hines Woodring. He was educated in city and county schools and at sixteen began

work as a janitor in the First National Bank of Neodesha, Kansas. He attended Lebanon Business University

in Lebanon, Indiana, for one

year, which gained him employment as a bookkeeper and

assistant cashier of the First National Bank in Elk City. Woodring soon became

assistant cashier at the First National Bank of Neodesha. Woodring moved up

quickly to become vice president and owner of the bank until he enlisted as a

private in the U.S. Army. He was later commissioned as a

second lieutenant in the Tank Corps in World War I. He was elected department

commander of the American Legion in

Kansas then in 1928 he sold his banking business to enter politics. Woodring

won the Kansas

gubernatorial election of 1930 in a controversial three-way

race with Republican Frank Haucke and write-in candidate and goat-gland

transplantation specialist, John Brinkley. Brinkley won the most votes, but the state only

counted ballots with J. R. Brinkley written in, disqualifying

tens of thousands of ballots with variants like John Brinkley written

in. Woodring himself admitted he would have lost,

had all Brinkley's votes been counted. Woodring served as governor of Kansas from 1931 to 1933. As the only Democrat elected to

a statehouse office, his efforts to cut expenditures were largely blocked by

Republicans, so he cut his own salary and the highway department, the one place

where Democrats had control. Woodring

ran for re-election in 1932, but lost

to Republican Alf Landon in a

three-way race, again featuring John Brinkley. On

July 25, 1933, Woodring married Helen Coolidge, with whom he had three

children. Coolidge was the daughter of United States Senator Marcus A. Coolidge. Woodring

served as Assistant

Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936, with supervision over

procurement matters. He was promoted and served as Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt from

1936 to 1940. He projected the recommendations of his predecessor for

increasing the strength of the Regular Army, National Guard,

and the Reserve Corps. During his tenure he directed a revision of mobilization

plans to bring personnel and procurement into balance and stressed the need to

perfect the initial (peacetime) protective force. A came under pressure from other cabinet members to resign in the first

year of World War II. Secretary of

the Interior Harold Ickes met with

Roosevelt at least twice to call for Woodring's firing, but FDR was at first

unwilling to do so, instead appointing outspoken interventionist Louis A. Johnson as Woodring's assistant secretary of

war. Woodring and Johnson were immediately at odds, and quickly reached the

point where they refused to speak to each other. On June 20, 1940, Roosevelt

ended the struggle by finally firing Woodring, replacing him with long-time

Republican politician Henry Stimson. Woodring

remained isolationist, opposing the Selective

Training and Service Act of 1940. Woodring ran

unsuccessfully for Governor of Kansas in 1946, and for the Democratic Party nomination

for that post in 1956. 

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