VICE PRESIDENT LEVI P. MORTON - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 317953
Price: $140.00
LEVI P. MORTON
Signature of the Congressman, Governor, Ambassador and Vice
President
Signature: "Levi P. Morton", 3¾x2½. Levi Parsons Morton
(1824-1920) was Benjamin Harrison's Vice President from
1889-1893 and Governor of New York from 1895-1897. He was
elected to the House of Representatives in 1879, but resigned when
President James Garfield appointed him Minister to France from 1881 to
1885. While Minister to France, he drove the ceremonial first rivet into
the Statue of Liberty in 1881, the 100th anniversary of General Lord
Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, which ended the Revolutionary War.
Morton accepted the statue on July 4, 1884 and, on that day, became the
first American to climb the statue to the top. He was also a banker and a
strong advocate of the gold standard. Signature lightly smudged, but legible.
Toned. Stray ink marks. Otherwise, fine condition.
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