HORATIO KING - CLIPPED SIGNATURE - HFSID 17268
Price: $100.00
HORATIO KING
Ink signature on a 4x2 slip with clipped corners
3¾x1¾ with clipped corners. Horatio King (1811-1897),
previously a newspaper editor, was employed by the US Post Office as a clerk in
Washington in 1839, and rose through the Department to become first Assistant
Postmaster General (1854, under Campbell), and then Postmaster General in the
final month of the Buchanan Presidency (February-March 1861). Responding to an
inquiry about the franking privilege from a South Carolina Congressman, King was
the first federal official to formally deny that states had a right to secede
from the Union. King remained in Washington during the Civil War, helping to
supervise emancipation in that city, and was active afterwards in the Monument
Society, hastening completion of the Washington Monument. While a lawyer in
private practice, he successfully lobbied Congress to introduce the Penalty
Envelope, an envelope for official business warning of a stiff "penalty for
private use." Stray ink at upper edge. Lightly soiled. Pencil notes (unknown
hand) on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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