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The Regular Issues of 1922–1931 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post Office. Unlike the definitives previously in use, which presented only a Washington or Franklin image, each of these definitive stamps depicted a different president or other subject, with Washington and Franklin each confined to a single denomination.
The 1-cent green Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial stamp was issued on July 26, 1945, at the Post Office at Hyde Park, New York. The design depicts an image of the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, New York. The 2¢ red was issued on August 24, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, the site of Roosevelt's favorite retreat, known as the "Little White House".
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a serious stamp collector, fostered the idea of a set of stamps honoring all the deceased past presidents of the United States. A national contest was held in 1937 to choose a designer for the first stamp of the series, the 1-cent George Washington issue.
6¢ gray brown - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States; 6¢ dark blue gray - Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States; 7¢ bright blue - Benjamin Franklin, politician, political theorist, diplomat, first U. S. Postmaster General, inventor, founder of the predecessor of the University of Pennsylvania and ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt† Herbert Hoover: Norman Thomas William Z. Foster William D. Upshaw (Prohibition) William Hope Harvey 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt† Alf Landon: William Lemke Norman Thomas Earl Browder 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt† Wendell Willkie: Norman Thomas
1999-D Roosevelt Dime Type 2 Clad Regular Strike: Sold for $14,375 in 2009 1949 Type 1 Full Band Silver Roosevelt Dime Business Strike: Sold for $13,200 in 2018 1946 Type 1 Silver Roosevelt Dime ...
President Theodore Roosevelt had campaigned for these issues while he was president. The issues, however, did not materialize until President Franklin D. Roosevelt, an avid stamp collector himself, and a frequent motivator of stamp issues and designs, had campaigned for their release. Ten stamps in all were issued on different dates during the ...
In 2009–10, the National Postal Museum exhibited six Roosevelt sketches that were developed into stamp issues: the 6-cent eagle airmail stamp and five miscellaneous commemoratives, which honored the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, the Mothers of America, Susan B. Anthony, Virginia Dare, and the Northwest Territories rise to statehood. A steady ...