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Then came President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Roosevelt was a stamp collector and made no bones
about it. He saw to it that his Postmaster General JamesA. Farley, issued lots of new stamps, and the Presidenteven helped design some of them, as when he arrangedthat the "Presidential Series" should picture the presi-dents in their order of succession according to the de-nomination of the stamp. Thus President Washington'sportrait appeared on the one-cent stamp, John Adamson the two-cent, and so on right up the line to Grover
Cleveland whose portrait appears on the twenty-two-centstamp. They couldn't carry the idea any further, forstamps after the twenty-two-cent denomination skippedto twenty-four cents. Harrison, McKinley, "Teddy"Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge all ap-peared on the higher denomination stamps in order ofsuccession but the continuity of the denominations wasbroken after Cleveland. Many think it was a mistakenot to carry the numerical sequence of the denomina-tions right up to the twenty-ninth president even if there |
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