This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. (December 11, 1861 – December 23, 1936) was a. Politician and educator from. He served in the. United States House of Representatives. Born on a farm near. To Henry and Barbara (Herring) Fess, he was educated in country schools and graduated at. In 1889 and married Eva C. Thomas the following year. Fess graduated from the. Law department at ONU. To become a graduate student and lecturer at the. From 1907 to 1917. In 1912, while still serving at Antioch College, Fess was a delegate to the state constitutional convention as well as being elected as a. House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1923. He served as chairman of the. Congresses and chairman of the. Republican National Congressional Committee. In 1922 he did not seek re-election, but ran for the U. Senate and won serving from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1935. Committee on the Library. From 1929 to 1933. He also served as chairman of the. Running the GOP during the depths of the Depression was a thankless task. After his appointment, the Cincinnati Enquirer referred to Fess as a “party wheelhouse and stand patter of the most approved type, ” and added It was Senator Fess’s proven ability not only to defend, but to eulogize, the acts of Republican administrations, no matter how unpopular they may be, that led to his selection as national chairman. Fess campaigned for the reelection of President Herbert Hoover by claiming Hoover was “the country’s greatest peacetime leader, ” a hard sell in the fall of 1932. That speech, a month before the presidential election, was delivered to just 150 listeners, a sign of the Republican Party’s problems in mid-Depression. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a third term as Senator in 1934. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Historical”. The seller is “historicsellsmemorabilia” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Vietnam, Uruguay.