PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING: I sell ORIGINAL items ONLY and NOT ANY reproductions.
This sale is for ONE
LETTERHEAD ,
from
The TREASURY DEPARTMENT ,
STATE of TEXAS
at AUSTIN ,
the $TATE TREA$URER
CHARLEY LOCKHART
during the year of 1933.
OTHER NAME LISTED AT TOP IS:
E. B. BARNES
AS CHIEF CLERK.
This LETTER is signed by
CHARLEY LOCKHART .
THE CONTENT OF THIS LETTER: It pertains to "..to handle CONFEDERATE PENSION WARRANTS as collateral instead od discounting. Most of the banks have adopted this policy, inasmuch as we have no way of knowing how long these warrants will have to run." Also, "Pension Fund is now some twelve months in arrears and Pension Warrants have been purchased from the three million dollar HIGHWAY INVESTMENT FUND from February 1932 up to and including November 1932, and warrants that have been discounted are
not eligible for purchase.." .. there is more content.
CONDITION: IT IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, IT HAS NORMAL LETTER FOLDS (the "SEE MORE" item is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached to the letterhead).
In my EBAY store, there is an 8" X 10" photo of Charley Lockhard that is for sale.
CHARLEY LOCKHART born in Dallas County, Texas
in August 1876 to
John C. R. & Lucretia Lockhart.
They moved to Snyder, Texas
in 1898.
Lockhart was elected Scurry County treasurer in 1900. He was re-elected to the county office eight times. In 1919 he went to Austin to work with the sergeant-at-arms of the Texas House of Representatives.
In 1930 he was elected state treasurer. In 1931, Ripley's Believe It Or Not featured a drawing of Lockhart under the caption "Texas, the largest state in the Union, has the smallest treasurer, Charley Lockhart, 45 inches tall." The Houston Post interviewed Lockhart when he entered the race for the state treasurer's office, and he is quoted as saying, "I want you to make it perfectly clear that I am fighting this battle on manhood alone," he said. "I don't want the votes that are given me through a feeling that life has not handed me a square deal. Life has been good to me. I have filled public office, earned the confidence and friendship of my fellows and educated my children. . . . I'm simply a little man with big ideas and sufficient experience and ability to carry my ideas out..."
He resigned his office on October 24, 1941 and was replaced by his hand-picked Deputy Jesse James. Lockhart died in 1954 and was buried in the Snyder Cemetery.
Approximate size of letterhead is 8 1/2" X 11".
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