President William McKinley Signed 1899 Naval Appointment autograph Chas A. Allen

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President William McKinley Signed 1899 Naval Appointment autograph Chas A. Allen:
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President William McKinley signed 1899 Appointment; co-signed by Secretary of the Navy, Charles A. Allen

In 1899 William McKinley signed this appointment — co-signed with his Secretary of the Charles A. Allen (1897-1902) — on September 8, 1899, promoting Simon P. Fullinwider to Lieutenant Junior Grade.

This Naval Appointment by ”William McKinley“ is signed in brown ink; and co-signed “Charles H. Allen” in brown ink as “acting” Secretary of the Navy. It is a single vellum page is 16\" x 19½\", with a blue 2½-inch United States Navy Department seal affixed. President McKinley signed the appointment of Simon P. Fullinwider as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in the United States Navy on December 12, 1899.

• *** 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, with Simon P. Fullinwider, Jr. on the USS Missouri, including on the day the vessel became the first combatant vessel to pass through the Panama Canal (his First Ship To Pass the Panama Canal document we have listed as well).***

* William McKinley (1843-1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 1901, after claiming victory in the Spanish-American War.

* Born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843, McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College, and was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out. Enlisting as a private in the Union Army, he was mustered out at the end of the war as a brevet major of volunteers. He studied law, opened an office in Canton, Ohio, and married Ida Saxton, daughter of a local banker.

* During his 14 years in the House, he became the leading Republican tariff expert, giving his name to the measure enacted in 1890. The next year he was elected Governor of Ohio, serving two terms.

* Foreign policy, dominated McKinley\'s Administration. Reporting the stalemate between Spanish forces and revolutionaries in Cuba, newspapers screamed that a quarter of the population was dead and the rest suffering acutely. Public indignation brought pressure upon the President for war. Unable to restrain Congress or the American people, McKinley delivered his message of neutral intervention in April 1898. Congress thereupon voted three resolutions tantamount to a declaration of war for the liberation and independence of Cuba.

*In the 100 Day War, the United States destroyed the Spanish fleet outside Santiago harbor in Cuba, seized Manila in the Philippines, and occupied Puerto Rico. Undecided about what to do next about Spanish possessions other than Cuba, McKinley annexed the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

* McKinley’s second term came to a tragic end in September 1901 when he was standing in a receiving line at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition and was shot twice. He died eight days later.

Charles Herbert Allen (April 15, 1848 – April 20, 1934) served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy -– and the acting Secretary of the Navy at the signing of this document -- under President William McKinley. He was appointed as the first United States-appointed civilian governor of Puerto Rico when the U.S. acquired it after the Spanish–American War. After returning to the U.S., Allen headed for became became a vice president of Morton Trust Company, on Wall Street, and its successor, the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. He formed the American Sugar Refining Company, a sugar syndicate which, by 1907, was the largest in the world. It owned or controlled 98% of the sugar processing capacity in the U.S. and was known as the Sugar Trust. Allen was treasurer of American Sugar Refining in 1910, its president in 1913, and in 1915 he joined its board of directors, later to be known as Domino Sugar.

Heavily toned, stained, creased, spotted vellum, with irregular edges.

President William McKinley 25th Doc Dec 13, 1899 until his assassination on September 14, 1901. Spanish American War - Presidential Signature -

Presidential signature - autograph

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