PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/24/1926 - HFSID 175517
Price: $1,000.00
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Getting ready for a vacation in Canada, the Chief Justice signs a typed
personal letter.
Typed Letter signed: "Wm H Taft", 1 page, 7¾x9½. Washington, D.C.,
1926 June 24. On US Supreme Court stationery to Brigadier General C. C.
Sniffen, The Ontario, Washington, D.C. In full: "I have your note of
June 23rd, and I thank you and Mrs. Sniffen for your kindly good wishes. I hope
to be able to leave here tomorrow afternoon for my summer home in Canada, there
to have a long and, I hope, a recuperative rest. May your summer be a pleasant
one, and may we meet again in the fall in this delightful part of Washington.
Sincerely yours". 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. Culver Channing Sniffen, a former secretary to President
Grant and an aide to General Shafter during the Cuban campaign of the
Spanish-American War, was appointed US Paymaster General with the rank of
Brigadier General by President Roosevelt in 1906. Before the advent of air
conditioning, everyone who could do so escaped from the stifling heat and
humidity of Washington, D.C. during the summer. As President, Taft made
Beverly, Massachusetts his summer residence. Later, he and Mrs. Taft summered in
Murray Bay, Quebec, Canada. Lightly creased at edges and soiled at left
edge. Light mailing fold crosses signature. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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