Jersey City Mayor FRANK HAGUE EGGERS Hand Signed 1947 TLS WILLIAM K. DICKEY, JR.. Condition is "Used". Shipped with USPS First Class.

For your consideration: this vintage original typed signed letter from (Democrat) Frank Hague Eggers, the nephew of corrupt Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Frank Hague. This 8.5 x 11” letter is signed in a broad, flourishing style in black ink, exhibiting the signer’s name, title and date (1947) on the letterhead. Also included in this lot is 2 page 8.5 x 11” typed signed letter from a young lawyer named William K. Dickey, Jr. who would later become a New Jersey Republican politician. Eggers writes his letter to a Catholic priest and includes the original copy of the letter he received from Dickey in his correspondence with the Monsignor. The substance of the letters has to do with the use of public funds to assist children with bussing and other subsidies enrolled in parochial schools.

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From Wikipedia: “Frank Hague Eggers (February 22, 1901 – July 8, 1954) was an American attorney, jurist, and Democratic Party politician who served as the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from 1947 to 1949. Eggers was appointed mayor following the retirement of his uncle, Frank Hague, though it was understood that his uncle continued to hold the real power. He served the balance of his uncle's eighth term. However, he was defeated in 1949 by John V. Kenny, ending the Hague organization's three-decade rule.

Prior to serving as mayor, Eggers had served as a city and county judge, spent four years as personal secretary to Mayor Hague, and served on the city commission in Jersey City. Eggers was a delegate to the New Jersey Constitutional Convention of 1947, and signatory of the resulting New Jersey State Constitution. He later served as a director of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Eggers died of a cerebral hemorrhage on July 8, 1954, at the age of 53.[4] His wake was held at the Quinn funeral home which operated in the Van Wagenen House. His uncle, Hague, was served with a subpoena during the event. Eggers was interred at Holy Name Cemetery.”

AND, also from Wikipedia:

“William K. "Bill" Dickey (September 12, 1920 – November 3, 2008) was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who served as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and as chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority.

Dickey was born in 1920 in the Westmont section of Haddon Township, New Jersey and grew up in Collingswood. He attended Collingswood High School, graduating in 1939. An eye injury at the age of 16 exempted him from active military service, but after graduating from high school he served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve. He also supported his family by working full-time on the night shift at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden.

Dickey graduated from the College of South Jersey (now Rutgers–Camden) in 1941 and from the South Jersey Law School (now Rutgers School of Law - Camden) in 1944. He later earned an additional B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1945 and opened a legal practice in Collingswood in 1950. He maintained the office until his retirement in 2007. He served eight years as a municipal judge for Collingswood, Gibbsboro, and Medford. He was also elected president of the New Jersey Jaycees.

Dickey became active in Republican politics in Camden County, serving as chairman of the Collingswood Republican Club for 16 years. In 1962 he was named Camden County Republican Campaign Chairman. The following year he was elected to the first of five consecutive terms in the New Jersey General Assembly.

In the Assembly, Dickey was selected as Minority Leader in 1967, Majority Leader in 1968 and 1969, and Speaker in 1970. In 1973, he lost his bid for reelection in a statewide Democratic landslide in the wake of the Watergate scandal. He also ran unsuccessfully for the Assembly in 1975 and 1977.

In 1980, at the age of 60, Dickey married Irene Campbell, a divorcee with four children. They had known each other since high school.

In 1983, Governor Thomas Kean appointed Dickey to the Board of Commissioners for the Delaware River Port Authority. He served as chairman from 1985 to 1987, and remained on the board until 1994.

Dickey retired from his Collingswood legal practice in 2007. He died in 2008 at the age of 88 at his home in Haddonfield.”