Franklin D. Roosevelt

Statement on the Death of Speaker Henry T. Rainey.

August 19, 1934

It must always be an occasion of national regret when a public servant who has given the greater part of his life to unselfish service passes away. This is especially true in the loss of Speaker Rainey at a time when the experience of many years had culminated in his useful leadership of the Nation's House of Representatives.

I had the privilege of knowing him first more than a score of years ago. I shall always think of him as a humanitarian whose fine patriotism thought first of what he conceived to be the well-being and the interests of the common man. Through all the years he kept the spirit of youth and he will be missed profoundly by old and young alike.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Statement on the Death of Speaker Henry T. Rainey. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208114

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