Pitcairn was also quite politically active . A Republican , he served as one of the delegates to Pennsylvania 's convention to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933 , and was one of Pennsylvania 's delegates to the 1956 Republican National Convention . He was also the national chairman and a major financial supporter of the Sentinels of the Republic , a conservative political group of the 1920s and 1930s which opposed the expansion of federal regulation and the New Deal
1956 Republican National Convention
1956 Republican National Convention
Raymond Pitcairn