FATHER COX'S BLUE SHIRTS BUTTON ON GARRISON CAP C. 1932 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
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Winning Bid:
$454.30
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
Father Cox was a Pittsburgh priest who led a large group of unemployed men, some with families, to Washington in Spring 1932 to take part in the protests which were staged to get Congress to pay the promised bonus to (largely unemployed) WWI veterans immediately, rather than in 1945 as the legislation passed in 1924 had stipulated. In July 1932, President Hoover had the US Army, under Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Major George S. Patton, destroy and drive the veterans, their wives and children from their camp on the Anacosta Flats. Cox and his followers then formed the Jobless Party and joined with William "Coin" Harvey to hold a joint presidential nominating convention in St. Louis August 17-18, 1932. However, the Protestant populists could not embrace the largely Catholic Blue Shirts. In September, Cox withdrew as the Jobless Party presidential nominee and endorsed and campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt who welcomed their support. The cap, likely used at the August convention, lays flat and is 5x11" with just a few small and scattered tan stain marks. The 7/8" button has blank back paper with pin holding clean 1.25" flag ribbon. The lower half of the button's collet has heavy surface rust and the border of the button has some dark stains but majority remains stain free and still with high gloss. Both pieces are rare and quite historic artifacts of the Depression era and 1932 campaign. Only the second we've seen in our 55 years.
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