President THEODORE ROOSEVELT Signed 1908 NAVAL APPOINTMENT Signature autograph

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President THEODORE ROOSEVELT Signed 1908 NAVAL APPOINTMENT Signature autograph:
$459.00

President THEODORE ROOSEVELT signed 1908 Appointment; co-signed by Secretary of the Navy, VICTOR H. METCALF

In 1908 Theodore Roosevelt signed this appointment on vellum — co-signed with his Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf — on February 28, 1908 promoting a lieutenant to lieutenant commander. (Please note: we have both versions of this appointment to the same individual listed in our sales.)

This Naval Appointment by ”Theodore Roosevelt\" is signed in brown ink; and co-signed \"V. H. Metcalf\" in black ink as Secretary of the Navy. It is a single vellum page approx. 16\" x 19½\", with a blue 2½-inch United States Navy Departmentt, approximately 2/3rds of which is affixed. President Roosevelt signed this appointment of Simon P. Fullinwider as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy on February 28th, 1908. (Fullinwider was present on the USS Missouri in 1915 as the first combatant ship to pass through the Panama Canal.)

*** This is a part of a set of over 20 documents we have for sale comprising U.S. Naval Appointments by 5 United States Presidents to the overlapping naval careers of a father and son, Simon P. Fullinwider and Simon P. Fullinwider, Jr. The full set includes: Theodore Roosevelt, three appointments (1902, 1907, and 1908); William McKinley, two (both in 1889); Grover Cleveland, two (one in 1896, one in 1897); Woodrow Wilson, two (one in 1913 [to Fullinwider SR], one in 1921 [to Fullinwider JR]); and Warren G. Harding, one (in 1922). These documents trace the entire naval careers of this man and his son, their lives as lived through great, crucial periods of American history, which also includes placing Simon P. Fullinwider, Jr. on the USS Missouri on the day that battleship became the first combatant vessel to pass through the Panama Canal. Fullinwider Jr\'s 1915 First Ship To Pass the Panama Canal document we have listed as well.***

Theodore ROOSEVELT (1858-1919), one of the United States’ best-known, most-loved presidents, earned the Medal of Honor for leading his volunteer \"Rough Riders\" in the charge up San Juan Hill in 1898. His accomplishments in the Spanish-American War helped him win the governorship of New York in 1899. He was elected Vice President of the United States in 1900. The next year, upon the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, Roosevelt assumed the presidency, becoming America\'s youngest president.

* The “Speak softly and carry a big stick\" foreign policy Roosevelt employed to settle the Canadian-Alaskan boundary dispute of 1903.

*In 1904 Roosevelt was re-elected. Roosevelt was the first American to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1906, for his role of successfully mediating the Russo-Japanese War’s end.

* Roosevelt also initiated construction of the Panama Canal in 1904. ****See the Panama Canal Passage Document we have listed, signed to the same individual.****

*Roosevelt protected wildlife and public lands, creating “the United States Forest Service (USFS) and establishing 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks, and 18 national monuments by enabling the 1906 American Antiquities Act. During his presidency,Theodore Roosevelt protected approximately 230 million acres of public land.” NPS

* “Teddy” Roosevelt as the eponymous source of the plush “Teddy Bear” we know today was born as a marketing gimmick when Roosevelt refused to shoot a black bear on a hunt in Mississippi organized by Gov. Andrew Longino in 1902, the year of this signature!

* Roosevelt, the \"Bull Moose\" Progressive candidate, ran against Woordrow Wilson in the famous presidential contest of 1912. Democrat Wilson unseated him. **** We have 2 signed Woodrow Wilson Naval Appointment of both Fullinwider SR and Fullinwider JR up for sale.****

METCALF (1853-1936) served as Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1904-1906) and Secretary of the Navy (1906-1908) under Roosevelt. Metcalf represented California in the U.S. House of Representatives (1899-1904), where he served on the House Committee on Naval Affairs and advocated the building of a large battleship navy. \"The Great White Fleet\" was launched while serving under Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy.

Lightly toned, spotted, creased, with some stains. Edges are irregular. The “-elt” Roosevelt’s signature are surrounded by a crease.

Presidential signature - autograph

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