President Grover Cleveland Signed 1896 Naval Appointment autograph Herbert

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President Grover Cleveland Signed 1896 Naval Appointment autograph Herbert:
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President GROVER CLEVELAND signed 1896 Appointment; co-signed by Secretary of the Navy, Hilary A. Herbert

In 1896 Grover Cleveland signed this appointment — co-signed with his Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert (1893-1897) — on July 1st, 1896 to Simon P. Fullinwider as “Ensign of the Navy”.

This Naval Appointment by ”Grover Cleveland\" is signed in brown ink; and co-signed “Hilary A. Herbert” in black ink as Secretary of the Navy. A single vellum page is 16\" x 19½\", with a blue 2½\" United States Navy Department seal affixed. President Cleveland signed the appointment of Simon P. Fullinwider as an Ensign of the United States Navy on July 1st, 1896.

*** This is a part of a set of over 20 documents we have for sale comprising U.S. Naval Appointments by 5 United States Presidents to the overlapping naval careers of a father and son, Simon P. Fullinwider and Simon P. Fullinwider, Jr. The full set includes: Theodore Roosevelt, three appointments (1902, 1907, and 1908); William McKinley, two (both in 1889); Grover Cleveland, two (one in 1896, one in 1897); Woodrow Wilson, two (one in 1913 [to Fullinwider SR], one [to Fullinwider, JR] in 1921); and Warren G. Harding, one (in 1922). These documents trace the entire naval careers of this man and his son, their lives as lived through great, crucial periods of American history, with Simon P. Fullinwider, Jr. on the USS Missouri, including on the day the vessel became the first combatant vessel to pass through the Panama Canal (his First Ship To Pass the Panama Canal document we have listed as well).***

* Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) was the first Democrat elected after the Civil War in 1885. As the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later (1885-1889 and 1893-1897). At 44, he rose to political prominence and made it to the White House in three years. Running as a reformer, he was elected Mayor of Buffalo in 1881, and later, Governor of New York. Cleveland won the Presidency with the combined support of Democrats and reform Republicans, the \"Mugwumps,\" who disliked the record of his opponent James G. Blaine of Maine. A bachelor, Cleveland was ill at ease at first with all the comforts of the White House. \"I must go to dinner,\" he wrote a friend, \"but I wish it was to eat a pickled herring a Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis\' instead of the French stuff I shall find.\" In June 1886 Cleveland married 21-year-old Frances Folsom; he was the only President married in the White House.

* According to biographer Allan Nevins, “In Grover Cleveland the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities. He had no endowments that thousands of men do not have. He possessed honesty, courage, firmness, independence, and common sense. But he possessed them to a degree other men do not.”

Hilary Abner Herbert (March 12, 1834 – March 6, 1919) was appointed by President Grover Cleveland appointed in 1893 as Secretary of the Navy. Herbert was able to muster support for an enlarged navy, despite the Despite the Depression of 1893, and brought the fleet to some level of preparedness for the Spanish-American War. Having converted to Mahan\'s school of naval thought, five battleships (the Kearsarge and Illinois classes) and sixteen torpedo boats were authorized during Herbert\'s tenure.[From 1897, when he left his Cabinet seat, to his death on March 6, 1919, Herbert practiced law in Washington, D.C.

Lightly toned, creased, spotted vellum, with stains, and irregular edges, as pictured. A few points of the seal are are bent but present.

Presidential signature - autograph

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