President Franklin Roosevelt Responds To Senator McAdoos Views On The Newly-Formed United States Maritime Commission

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (1882-1945). Roosevelt was the Thirty-Second President. WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO (1863-1941). McAdoo was the Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson and later served as a Senator from California. TLS. 1pg. December 23, 1937. The White House. A typed letter signed Franklin D Roosevelt as President. On The White House letterhead, the missive is addressed to Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California: My dear Senator: Thank you very much for your letter of December twenty-first, setting forth your views with reference to the need for a Pacific Coast States representative on the Maritime Commission. I am glad to have your statements and want to assure you that they will have every consideration. With all good wishes, Very sincerely yours, Franklin D Roosevelt. The United States Maritime Commission was a governmental agency established in 1936 for the building and operation of merchant ships. The commission existed until 1950. The letter, on seafoam green stationer, is in fine condition with one small red dot in the lower right corner.