DWIGHT F. DAVIS - TYPED NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1928 - HFSID 26476
Price: $200.00
DWIGHT F. DAVIS. TNS: "Dwight F Davis" as Coolidge's
Secretary of War, 5x3 card. War Department, Washington, D.C., 1928,
no month or day. To unknown recipient. In full: "I am pleased to add
my autograph to your collection. Yours very truly". Dated "1928." in unknown
hand at lower margin. Dwight Filley Davis (1879-1945), who is best remembered
as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition, was a
member of the U.S. team that won the first two competitions in 1900 and
1902, serving as Captain of the 1900 team. Davis had been the
runner-up at the U.S. Championships in 1898, and he then won the men's
doubles title (with Holcombe Ward) in 1899, 1900 and 1901 and was a men's
doubles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1901. Although trained as an attorney,
Davis never practiced law after becoming involved in politics. He was the
Public Parks Commissioner of St. Louis, Missouri from 1911-1915 (during
which time he created the first municipal tennis courts in the U.S.)
before serving as Assistant Secretary of War (1923-1925) and Secretary
of War (1925-1929) under President Calvin Coolidge. Davis, who then served
as Governor General of the Philippines (1929-1932), was hosting
Republican Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth when Longworth died
unexpectedly of pneumonia on April 9, 1931. Glue stains and mounting remnants on
verso (no show through), else fine condition.
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