TLS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, June 26, 1924. A few days after being nominated by the Republican Party for a second term, the president writes Mrs. J. G. M. Glessner of the Republican National Committee in Littleton, New Hampshire to express his appreciation for the support of women. In part: “The National Committee is necessarily one of the most important instruments that have been devised under our form of Government, through parties. In it is centered the business conduct of the Party, involving a great responsibility. The members of the Committee are volunteer patriots, serving from no other motive than devotion to the cause. To them fall the tasks of organization and management, with little of tangible recognition or official reward. It is therefore fitting that acknowledgment be made of the obligation due to them from both the Party nominees and the great rank and file of the organization. I cannot express this often, but I want you to know I always feel it.
The National Committee becomes this year a far more representative body than ever before, for its membership now comprises both men and women, serving on a basis of complete equality, precisely as the full duties of citizenship have been conferred upon them. This marks a long advance, and is as I wanted it. Many responsibilities have come to me, but you will share them. Upon your energy, wisdom, and patriotic efforts, will largely depend the effectiveness of our appeal to the nation.” In fine condition.
A constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920, an election year that saw Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge elected to office. Following Harding’s 1923 death, and with Coolidge seeking his own full term in 1924, the new president praises the 19th amendment and women for their new role in society, as well as the GOP for becoming “a far more representative body than ever before, for its membership now comprises both men and women, serving on a basis of complete equality, precisely as the full duties of citizenship have been conferred upon them.” That advancement, Coolidge emphatically declares, “is as I wanted it.” Remarkable women’s suffrage content. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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