[Drop title] A Farmer for Congress

  • [Bloomington, IL]: Democratic Agricultural Committee for 17th Congressional District, 1946
By Carl Vrooman
[Bloomington, IL]: Democratic Agricultural Committee for 17th Congressional District, 1946. Near Fine. [Bloomington, IL: Democratic Agricultural Committee of 17th Congressional District, n.d. but 1946.] Octavo (23cm.); bifolium. Light toning to extremities, else Near Fine.

Campaign flyer supporting the (failed) congressional bid of Carl Vrooman, former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson. The text is comprised of fifteen bullet points regarding Vrooman's "outstanding qualifications, though as one constituent pointed out in an anonymous editorial, Vrooman was never in fact a farmer (see "The Pantagraph," November 2, 1946, p. 7). Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of February, 2025.

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