PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/31/1888 - HFSID 283794
Sale Price $1,495.00
Reg. $1,800.00
BENJAMIN HARRISON
As the Republican candidate for President (1888), he replies to two
Californians who had congratulated him on his nomination.
Typed Letter signed: "Benjamin Harrison", 1 page, 8½x7¼.
Indianapolis Indiana, 1888 July 31. On letterhead of his law firm to H.
M. Goodwin and Miss Emma Goodwin, San Luis Obispo, California. In full:
"Please accept my thanks for your very cordial congratulations of the
24th inst. Very truly yours". Benjamin Harrison (1838-1901), the 23rd
President (1889-1893), had been a Brigadier General in the Civil War and a
US Senator from Indiana (1881-1887). Harrison had secured the Republican
nomination on the eight ballots at the party convention in Chicago (June 24,
1888), with New York City banker Levi P. Morton as his running mate. The
principal issue of the campaign was the protective tariff, which Democratic
incumbent Cleveland had proposed to lower. Elected President in 1888, despite
losing the popular vote to Democratic Cleveland, he was defeated by the same
opponent four years later. Vertical and horizontal letter folds one crosses the
first "r" in Harrison. 1-inch tear in top fold crease. Lightly
soiled at right margin. Minor smudging at "son" of signature. Otherwise
in fine condition.
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