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Message of Sympathy on the Death of Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania.
[Released June 28, 1930. Dated June 27, 1930]
My dear Mrs. Baron:
I am shocked and grieved at the death of my friend, your father, Representative Stephen G. Porter, and I offer you my deepest sympathy in your bereavement. He will be long and gratefully remembered for his important services to the Nation, and I gladly bear witness to them of personal knowledge.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mrs. Richard F. Baron, 107 Centre Avenue, Ensworth, Pittsburgh, Pa.]
Note: Representative Porter served in the Congress from 1911 to his death.
Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210914