PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND - AUTOGRAPH ENVELOPE UNSIGNED - HFSID 142108
Price: $750.00
GROVER CLEVELAND
Grover Cleveland addresses an envelope to General John
Gillam.
Autograph Envelope, unsigned, 4½x3½. Printed return address:
"Executive Mansion". Addressed by President Cleveland to "Gen John
Gillam/Army and Navy Club/Washington/D.C.". No stamp or postmark. Ink date
stamp of Dec. 18, n.y. Cleveland, formerly Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of New
York (1883-1885) served as the 22nd and 24th President (1885-1889,
1893-1897). He won the popular vote all three times he ran (1884, 1888,
1892), losing the electoral vote and the presidency in 1888 to Benjamin
Harrison. He was the only Democrat elected President in more than a half
century between the departure of Buchanan (1861) and the inauguration of
Wilson (1913). President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) starting using "The
White House" instead of "Executive Mansion" on correspondence from the
Presidential residence. Lightly soiled. Pencil note (unknown hand) near top.
Flap missing from verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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