John Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio in 1921, becoming a Marine Corps combat pilot in World War II and also Korea where, for a time, his wingman was baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams. Glenn made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the U.S. in 1957. Chosen as one of the original, seven NASA Mercury astronauts in 1959, he became the first American to orbit the Earth in February 1962 and soon was a national hero.

He became friends with the Kennedy family, and Bobby urged him to retire from NASA and run for the US Senate in 1964.  He did so but after sustaining a fall, dropped out of the democrat primary and later went into business.  He was in RFK's suite the night Bobby was shot, and when RFK died the next day, with his wife Annie, took Bobby's large family from the hospital back to their home in Virginia.  He was a pall bearer at the funeral.

He challenged Howard Metzenbaum in the Ohio democrat US Senate primary in 1970 but lost to him, and then successfully ran and won a seat in 1974, then was re-elected three more times.  He was considered as a VP hopeful for Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Glenn ran for president, himself, in 1984 in the primaries.  

At the age of 77, in 1998, a year before he retired from the Senate, Glenn went into space for a second time aboard space shuttle Discovery, becoming the oldest US citizen ever to go into space.  He died in 2016 at age 95, as the last surviving Mercury astronaut and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

This wonderfully designed, 17" x 23" paper poster is also from Glenn's 1974 successful Senate election with the official campaign disclaimer at the bottom. It is in nice condition but please look at our images to judge this for yourself so you can be happy with your purchase.

We are listing two other John Glenn campaign posters, another from this year and a re-election example of which we find no sales record and look for lots of the other John Glenn presidential campaign, senatorial and space related pins we're listing at this time from the life-long collection of a good friend who has passed on.

We are members of APIC and sell only authentic presidential (and other collectible) material so buy with confidence. We'll be happy to combine S & H costs on multiple purchases even though eBay says we won't.  We just issue a refund for any overpayment.  Shipping on this will be $7.50, carefully packed with tracking rolled in a tube, and we'll spring for the extra insurance on it above the $100 which the USPS provides.

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