We invite you to visit our web site regularly and follow the development of this exciting project. We welcome your input and comments. Feel free to contact any of us at any time. Commemorative Stamp Honors Pepper Senator Claude Pepper was honored by the United States Postal Service on September 7 with the issuance of a postage stamp bearing his image. The stamp was the second one released in the new Great Americans Series, recognizing the Senator's numerous contributions to his country and its people, especially the elderly.
Pepper is the first Florida political leader to be featured on a postage stamp.
The stamp was dedicated at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on September 7, and in Tallahassee, Florida, on September 8, the 100th anniversary of Senator Pepper's birth. The ceremony in Washington was attended by members of Congress, other dignitaries, friends and former staff. Rep. John Moakley, D-Mass., said he never forgot that his college education was made possible by the G.I. Bill of Rights that Pepper had supported. In Tallahassee, former Florida Governor Reubin Askew spoke to Pepper admirers of all ages packed into the Claude Pepper Center. For 33 cents, you're looking into the eye of a man who looked after a nation, and its people.