sen john kennedy (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. Octavo; xiii, 208 pages, clothbacked board, rubber stamp on endpaper Kennedy, the author of PROFILES IN COURAGE, fittingly wrote the Foreword to this similar book, because JFK was Chairman of the Special Senate Committee charged with making the original selection of these five outstanding senators, whose portraits were to be unveiled in 1958 in the Senate Reception Room.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. Foreword by Sen. John F. Kennedy (illustrator). Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); little edgewear (tiny chips & tears, small crease) d/j. 8vo., cloth & boards in dust jacket; First Edition. Signed presentation from Alexander to Maryland Sen. John M. Butler on the front endpaper: "Honorable John M. Butler, US Senator, Maryland. With best wishes, Holmes Alexander. 14 July 1958." John Marshall Butler (1897?1978) was a lawyer and politician. He served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1951 to 1963. During his tenure in the Senate, Butler established himself as a staunch conservative. He sponsored the Communist Control Act of 1954, which outlawed the Communist Party and authorized the prosecution of Communist-infiltrated organizations. He was one of the twenty-two Senators who voted against the censure of Senator McCarthy in 1954. Signed.