PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT - MILITARY APPOINTMENT SIGNED 07/01/1908 CO-SIGNED BY: LUKE E. WRIGHT - HFSID 16873
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT and LUKE E. WRIGHT
The United States President and newly appointed Secretary of War signed this document
promoting Zerah W. Torrey
Partly Printed DS: "Theodore Roosevelt" as President and "Luke E. Wright" as Secretary of
War, 1p, 18x15. Washington, 1908 July 1. Appointment of Zerah W. Torrey as
Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry. After Secretary of War William H. Taft was nominated for
President at the June 16-19, 1908 Republican National Convention, he left Roosevelt's
cabinet and was succeeded by Luke E. Wright (1846-1922) who entered upon his duties on
July 1, 1908, the day he signed this document! Before he was appointed Secretary of War,
Wright was the Governor-General of the Philippines from 1904 to 1906. Theodore
“Teddy” Roosevelt (1858-1919) is one of America's most well-known and flamboyant
presidents. Roosevelt's heroism in the Spanish-American War, where he earned the Medal
of Honor for leading his volunteer "Rough Riders" in a charge up San Juan Hill (1898),
helped him win the governorship of New York the next year. Elected Vice President in
1900, Roosevelt assumed the presidency upon President William McKinley's assassination
(1901), becoming America's youngest president. He was re-elected in 1904. Roosevelt was
the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, receiving the 1906 award for mediating the
end of the Russo-Japanese War. Known for his "speak softly and carry a big stick" foreign
policy, Roosevelt settled the Canadian-Alaskan boundary dispute in 1903 and initiated
construction of the Panama Canal in 1904. He converted more than 125 million acres of
land into national forests and was a staunch advocate of antitrust legislation. After failing
to secure the Republican nomination, he ran as the Progressive ("Bull Moose") candidate
in the famous presidential contest of 1912. He lost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson but
securing more votes than incumbent William Howard Taft, becoming the most successful
third-party candidate in recent United States history. Lightly creased. Slight wear at full,
2¼-inch seal. Slightly soiled.
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