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Tonopah Gold Mountain Mining Company Stock signed by Key Pittman [178001]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
Tonopah Gold Mountain Mining Company Stock signed by Key Pittman [178001]
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80.00USDto g*******4+ buyer's premium (20.00)
This item SOLD at 2024 Apr 13 @ 10:52UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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1905 issued to and signed on verso by Key Pittman. Pittman moved to Tonopah, Nevada, in 1902 to continue the practice of law.In 1910, he made an unsuccessful run for the Senate. Later, he was elected as a Democrat to the Senate in 1913 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Nixon, and served until his own death in 1940. Between 1933 and 1940, during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pittman was the chairman of the powerful Committee on Foreign Relations and a member of the Committee on Territories and the Committee on Industrial Expositions. In addition, during those years Pittman was also President pro tempore of the United States Senate. But his lasting legacy will always be his death! "Key Pittman was a United States Senator from Nevada, serving eventually as its president pro tempore and its chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. It was rumored for years that Pittman died before his final election in 1940, and that Democratic party leaders kept the body in Reno's Riverside Hotel bathtub full of ice until he was reelected so Governor Edward Carville, a fellow Democrat, could appoint a replacement. While the rumor was false the truth was, as former Nevada State Archivist Guy Rocha wrote, "just as disreputable". Pittman suffered a severe heart attack just before the election on November 5, and two doctors told his aides before the election that death was imminent. To avoid affecting the election, the party told the press that the senator was hospitalized for exhaustion and that his condition was not serious." from wikipedia Nevada Fred Holabird Collection