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D10274-15
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- 1940-09-23 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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When Wendell Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential nominee stopped in Tacoma, both Frank Fletcher (left), age 5, and his brother Walt, age 3, were at the Northern Pacific Shops train yard to hear him. His September 1940 visit to Tacoma was the first campaign stop by a Republican presidential candidate in Tacoma in 24 years. The Tacoma Times misidentified Walt as Robert Fletcher when they originally published this photograph in September of 1940. TPL-8374
Willkie, Wendell, 1892-1944; Presidential elections--Tacoma--1940-1950; Public speaking--Tacoma; Fletcher, Frank; Fletcher, Walt;