PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT - MILITARY APPOINTMENT SIGNED 09/21/1909 CO-SIGNED BY: BRIGADIER GENERAL ROBERT SHAW OLIVER - HFSID 35823
Sale Price $850.00
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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Appointment of Thomas L. Casey as Colonel in the Corps of Engineers,
co-signed by Acting Secretary of War Robert Shaw Oliver.
Military Appointment signed: "Wm H. Taft" as President,
"Robert Shaw Oliver" as Acting Secretary of War, 18x14½.
Washington, D.C., 1909 September 21. Appointment of Thomas L. Casey as
Colonel in the Corps of Engineers. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930) was
Governor of the Philippines (1901-1904), Secretary of War (1904-1909), 27th
of the United States (1909-1913) and Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
(1921-1930). His bruising convention battle with former ally and patron
Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 split the Republican Party, allowing the election of
Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Taft as President was caught in the middle between
progressives and conservatives and constrained by a more limited view of
Presidential powers than TR had possessed, but historians tend to view his term
of office more positively than did most of his contemporaries. His skills as
Chief Justice are widely recognized. In the years between his Presidency and his
appointment as chief justice, Taft taught at Yale Law School. ROBERT SHAW
Oliver (1847-1935), a cavalry lieutenant in the Civil War, rose through the
ranks of the New York state militia to become a brigade comander in 1883. He
served as Assistant Secretary of War from August 19, 1903 to April 19, 1913,
longer than anyone else. During the absence of the Secretary of War, he
served as Acting Secretary. Oliver was the first President of the US Tennis
Association (1881). THOMAS L. CASEY, JR. (1857-1925), son and namesake of
the Army engineer who set the capstone on the Washington Monument in 1884,
followed his father into the Corps of Engineers, but is better remembered as a
distinguished entomologist. Corners and edges lightly worn. Surface creases.
Notch missing in top right corner. Stain on right edge. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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