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52 - William H. Taft Document Signed as President, Appointing a Lieutenant in the Navy
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William H. Taft Document Signed as President, Appointing a Lieutenant in the Navy Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 15.5 x 19.25, February 21, 1912. President Taft appoints Fred M. Perkins as "a Lieutenant in the Navy." Signed at the conclusion in ink by President William H. Taft, and countersigned by Acting Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop. The blue seal affixed at the bottom remains mostly intact, with a fleck of loss at the top. In very good to fine condition, with light overall wrinkling and dampstaining along the left edge.
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