PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE - NAVAL APPOINTMENT SIGNED 10/21/1926 CO-SIGNED BY: CURTIS D. WILBUR - HFSID 76108

CALVIN COOLIDGE
Appointment of a Navy captain, a civil engineer, also signed by Navy Secretary Curtis Wilbur
Naval Appointment signed: "Calvin Coolidge" as President, "Curtis D. Wilbur" as Secretary of the Navy, 15x19½. Washington, D.C., 1926 October 21. Appointment of Paul G. Reed, a Navy captain since July 3, 1922, as a Civil Engineer. After losing an election for School Committee in 1905, CALVIN COOLIDGE (1872-1933, born in Plymouth, Vermont) never lost another one. He was Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts (1910-1911), State Senator (1912-1915), Lieutenant Governor (1916-1918), Governor (1919-1920), vice president (1921-1923) and president (1923-1929). He earned a national following during the Boston Police Strike of 1919, when as Governor he declared, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, any time." "Silent Cal," as he was called for his economy of speech, succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of Warren Harding and won election to his own full term in 1924. Despite his taciturn manner, Coolidge gave more press conferences than any President before or since, and was the first to deliver a political speech on radio. How one rates the Coolidge Presidency depends largely on whether one shares his belief in reduced government spending and regulation. CURTIS DWIGHT WILBUR (1867-1954), a Naval Academy graduate (1884), practiced law in California, rising to the position of Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court in 1918. As Secretary of the Navy (1924-1929) in the Coolidge administration, Wilbur established the naval air force, a crucial component of victory in the Pacific two decades later. After leaving this post he was appointed to a federal judgeship. The guided missile destroyer Curtis Wilbur was commissioned in 1994. Lightly creased. Top right corner torn. Multiple fold creases. Otherwise, fine condition.