Representative Brent Spence Letter, 1961.

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Representative Brent Spence Letter, 1961.

A letter from Representative Brent Spence dated August 25, 1961 to Kathy Guntler (now Hanas) about her suggestion that Kentucky's license plate should read the Birthplace of Lincoln. The collection is one letter and one envelope.

one letter and one envelope.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Hanas, Kathleen Jane Guntler.

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Spence, Brent, 1874-1967

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Legislator, Lawyer. Spence was born in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky and was elected as a democrat to represent the old sixth district of Kentucky in the 72nd Congress in 1930. He was reelected for sixteen consecutive terms, serving until his retirement in 1962. In 1943 Spence became chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, an office he held until his retirement, except during the republican controlled 80th and 83rd Congresses, when he was ranking minority member of the...