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Lot of 20. Two photomechanical prints on cabinet cards with facsimile signatures, one of Chauncey M. Depew and the other of his wife, May Depew. Depew (1834-1928) was a Senator (NY) from 1899-1911 and lawyer for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests. TNS, 5.25 x 8.5 in., New York, Dec. 26, 1916. On letterhead of Sol Bloom (1870 - 1949) and signed by him. Bloom was an advocate for European Jews before the war, and tried, ultimately unsuccessfully, to get special refugee status for European Jews who could get to the United States. TNS, 7 x 9 in., Washington, March 10, 1934. On letterhead from The Speaker's Rooms, signed by Speaker Henry Thomas Rainey (1860-1934). Rainey was the last speaker born before the Civil War and was speaker during FDR's first Hundred Days. TLS, 1p, Washington, Mar. 29, 1934, on Senate Rules Committee letterhead, signed by Royal S. Copeland, then Chairman of the committee. To Louis Wiley's mother on her birthday. Royal Copeland (1868-1938)Â was one of those rare politicians who began as something other than a lawyer, in this case a doctor and professor at the medical school. He was Mayor of Ann Arbor (MI) before moving to New York. He served as senator from New York from 1923-1938. TNS, 1p, [Washington], Dec. 17, 1919, on US Senate Interstate Commerce Committee letterhead, signed by James E. Watson, at this time a member of the committee, but later its chairman. James Eli Watson (1864-1948) served in both the House and Senate. He became friends with Speaker of the House Joe Cannon on his arrival in Washington, and Cannon helped him become Majority leader in the Senate later. TNS, 1p, New York, Nov. 12, 1904, carbon paper copy on "Committee on Expenditure in the Department of Justice" letterhead, signed by Henry M. Goldfogle (1856-1929). Goldfogle served in the House from 1901-1915 and again from 1919-1921. TLS, 1p, [Washington], May 16, 1929, on Senate Appropriations Committee letterhead, signed by Carter Glass (1858-1946), who is best known for co-sponsoring the bill in 1933 that separated investment banking and commercial banking and established the FDIC. He has also served as Secretary of the Treasury under Wilson (1918-1920) and in the Virginia Senate. In the US Senate he served as President Pro Tempore during the second World War. TNS, 1p, [Washington], Oct. 10, 1919, on Senate Committee on Coast and Insular Survey letterhead. Signed by Walter E. Edge, Chairman of the committee. Edge (1873-1956) was Governor of New Jersey during both World Wars (1917-1919 and 1944-1947. Between these he was a Senator from NJ (1919-1929) and Ambassador to France (1929-1933). TNS, 5 x 8 in., Washington, Nov. 29, 1918, on US House note paper. Signed by Medill McCormick of Illinois. Joseph Medill McCormick (1877-1925) was the son of a nephew of Cyrus McCormick. He was a newspaper reporter and publisher as well as maintaining a business breeding cattle. McCormick served in the Illinois House and both the US House and Senate. Second TLS from McCormick in on Rock River Farms letterhead, which has a panoramic view of the farm along the top, Byron, Illinois, Sept. 21, 1918. Written just before the November elections, McCormick tells Wiley: "If I am elected I privately harbor the thought of tendering my services to The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune as a correspondent en tour along the front." (WWI) TNS, 1p, New York, Sept. 26, 1904, on Francis Burton Harrison's letterhead and signed by him. Harrison (1873-1957), an American-born Filipino, served in the US House 1903-1905, 1907-1913. He was appointed Governor-General of the Philippines by Wilson where he served from 1913-1921. He is the only Governor-General to be given Filipino citizenship. Although he lived in the States after his term was up, after his death in New Jersey, his body was taken to the Philippines where he is buried in the Manila North Cemetery at his request. TLS, 1p, Baltimore (MD), Oct. 3, 1904, on letterhead of Isidor Rayner (1850-1912). Rayner