Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to D. H. Mudge Sr.

Democratic Party, Edwardsville, elections, government, Mudge

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, “Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to D. H. Mudge Sr.,” Madison Historical, accessed July 16, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/823.

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This is a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dick Howard Mudge Senior, a prominent attorney and member of the local Democratic Party. At this time Roosevelt won the 1932 Presidential Election, beating incumbent Herbert Hoover. Writing in response to a telegram from Mudge, Roosevelt acknowledges congratulations on his victory. Looking towards the future, Roosevelt reaffirms the Democratic Party's values and policies in hopes to establish an ordered economic life with continued support from Mudge.

Mudge Family Collection

• government
• Edwardsville
• Democratic Party
• elections

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

• Stephen Mudge

November 17, 1932

• Edwardsville

• Letter from D. H. Mudge Sr. to Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to D. H. Mudge Sr.
  Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to D. H. Mudge Sr.

English

• Miscellaneous Document

• Letter
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Letter

• Edwardsville, Illinois
  1930s

• Mudge-Steve-D-0024