President Woodrow Wilson Signed 1913 Naval Appointment autograph sign J. Daniels

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President Woodrow Wilson Signed 1913 Naval Appointment autograph sign J. Daniels:
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President Woodrow Wilson signed 1913 Appointment; co-signed by Secretary of the Navy, Jospeheus Daniels

In 1913 Woodrow Wilson signed this appointment — co-signed with his Secretary of the Navy Josepheus Daniels (1863-1948) — on August 12, 1913 promoting Simon P. Fullinwider to a commander. INCLUDED: is a second document on August 9, 1913 letter announcing document to Mr. Fullinwider.

This Naval Appointment by ”Woodrow Wilson” is signed in black ink; and co-signed “Jospeheus Daniels” in black ink as Secretary of the Navy. It is a single vellum page is approximately 16\" x 19½\" with a blue 2½\" United States Navy Department seal affixed. President Roosevelt signed the appointment of Simon P. Fullinwider as a Commander in the United States Navy on August 12, 1913.

*** 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 U.S.S 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).***

* Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to \"make the world safe for democracy.\"

* Like Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. In 1917 he proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world \"safe for democracy.\"

* Wilson had seen the frightfulness of war. He was born in Virginia in 1856, the son of a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia, and during Reconstruction a professor in the charred city of Columbia, South Carolina.

* After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academic career. Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902.

* He was nominated for President at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campaigned on a program called the New Freedom, which stressed individualism and states\' rights. In the three-way election he received only 42 percent of the popular vote but an overwhelming electoral vote.

* Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices.

* Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. One new law prohibited child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day. By virtue of this legislation and the slogan \"he kept us out of war,\" Wilson narrowly won re-election.

* After the election Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the World War. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. Massive American effort slowly tipped the balance in favor of the Allies. Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to enunciate American war aims--the Fourteen Points, the last of which would establish \"A general association of nations...affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.\"

* After the Germans signed the Armistice in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris to try to build an enduring peace. He later presented to the Senate the Versailles Treaty, containing the Covenant of the League of Nations, and asked, \"Dare we reject it and break the heart of the world?\"

Josephus Daniels (1862 – 1948) was a progressive Democrat, and newspaper editor and publisher from North Carolina who was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to serve as Secretary of the Navy during World War I. He was also a close friend and supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as his Ambassador to Mexico from 1933-41.

Daniels was a newspaper editor and publisher from the 1880s to his death; most famously at the Raleigh News and Observer. As Secretary of the Navy, he handled formalities in World War I while his top aide Franklin Delano Roosevelt handled the major wartime decisions. As ambassador to Mexico, he dealt with the anti-American government and its expropriation of American oil investments. At the state level he was a leading progressive, supporting public schools and public works, and calling for more regulation of trusts and railroads. He supported prohibition and women’s suffrage, and used his newspapers to support the regular Democratic Party ticket.

Lightly toned, creased, spotted vellum, with some stains, irregular edges.

Presidential signature - autograph

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