Anderson Auction #211

Lot #62:

Truman for Eastern District Judge

A highly sought-after pin picturing the youthful Harry Truman running for Eastern Court District Judge in Missouri. Truman was elected to the Jackson County position in 1922, lost it in 1924 and sold cars for two years before making his comeback and winning the county presiding judge seat in 1926. So this pin was at the beginning of Truman’s long political march to the White House. It’s a 7/8 inch celluloid with some ever so faint surface crazing.