"Delaware Senator" James M. Tunnell Hand Signed FDC Dated 1938 For Sale
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"Delaware Senator" James M. Tunnell Hand Signed FDC Dated 1938:
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Up for sale "Delaware Senator" James M. Tunnell Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1938.
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James
Miller Tunnell (August
2, 1879 – November 14, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician from
Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware.
He was a member of the Democratic Party, and served as U.S. Senator from
Delaware. Tunnell was born in Clarksville, near Millville, Delaware. He
attended the public schools and graduated in 1900 from Franklin College, now
combined with Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio. Tunnell taught in the public schools,
eventually becoming principal of the schools at Frankford, Selbyville and Ocean View, Delaware. Meanwhile,
he studied the law, was admitted to the bar in 1907 and began a practice in
Georgetown, Delaware. He was president of the Georgetown Board of Education
from 1919 until 1932. Tunnell was also a banker and owned and operated a number
of farms in Sussex County, Delaware. Tunnell
first ran for a seat in the United States Senate in 1924, but was defeated by
Republican T. Coleman du Pont, a former senator. He was elected to the United
States Senate in 1940, this time defeating the incumbent Republican Senator
John G. Townsend, Jr. During this term, he served with the Democratic majority
in the 77th, 78th, and 79th Congresses. He was chairman of the Committee on
Pensions in the 78th and 79th Congresses. Tunnell lost his offer for a second
term in 1946 to Republican John J. Williams from
Millsboro, Delaware. He served from January 3, 1941, to January 3, 1947, during
the administrations of U.S. presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
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