SIGNATURES of HENRY CABOT LODGE - GEORGE H. PENDLETON

Description: We are offering 7 signature cut autographs of politicians that normally come from letters they had sent. 1.) Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. (1850-1924) - was a Republican U.S. Senator representing the state of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1924. He led the successful congressional opposition to U. S. participation in the League of Nations following World War I, but his beliefs strongly influenced the creation of the United Nations. Signed "H. C. Lodge" (2.) Abram Stevens Hewitt - (1822-1903) - went into the successful iron-making business with Peter Cooper of New York City, which produced gun-barrel iron for the Federal government during the Civil War, without taking a profit. Hewitt organized a campaign to oust the Tweed Ring from controlling both the Tammany Hall Democratic organization and the municipal government of New York City. In 1874, Hewitt won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he remained (with the exception of the 1879-81 term) until 1886. In 1886, he won the Mayoral race in New York City against Theodore Roosevelt. Signed "A. S. Hewitt" 3.) William H. English - (1822-1896) - served as U.S. Representative from Indiana in the 35th Congress from 1853 to 1861. He was the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1880 with Winfield Scott Hancock as the presidential nominee, but they lost to Republic James A. Garfield and his running mate. Signed "Wm. H. English". [the Library of Congress website shows a photograph of him with his signature] 4.) Ebenezer R. Hoar (1816-1895) - in the mid-1840s, he was a leading antislavery Whig Party member of the Massachusetts Senate. He described himself as a "Conscience Whig", in contrast to the proslavery "Cotton Whigs". He was instrumental in the formation of the Free Soil and Republican parties in Massachusetts when the Whig Party declined. In 1859 Hoar became as associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, a position he held until 1869, when President Grant appointed him U.S. Attorney General. During this period, he alienated the Senate when he insisted that nine newly created federal judgeships [of the U.S. Supreme Court] be filled according to merit rather than through patronage. As a consequence, the Senate refused to confirm Hoar when Grant nominated him for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1870, Hoar resigned from Grant's cabinet. Signed "E.R. Hoar, Atorney General, Washington Jan. 15, 1870" 5. & 6.) Two signature cuts - George H. Pendleton (1825-1889) - represented Ohio in both houses of Congress and was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1864. During the Civil War, he was a leader of the Copperheads, a group of Democrats who favored peace with the Confederacy. After the war, he opposed the 13th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Pendleton won the election to the U.S. Senate in 1879, serving only a single term. He wrote and helped pass the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, which required many civil service hires to be based on merit rather than political connections. Passage of the act lost him support in Ohio and he was not nominated for a second term in the Senate. Signed "Geo. H. Pendleton" - on one we can see that he wrote his name, as the sender, on the back of a U.S.S. [United States Senate] envelope - this being the signature cut from that envelope. 7.) James Harlan (1820-1899) - was an educator, surveyor, attorney and a politician. He served as United State Senate from Iowa from 1855 to 1865 and from 1867-1873. He was appointed by President Lincoln to the cabinet position of Secretary of the Department of the Interior in which he served from 1865-1866, and he served as a Federal Judge from 1882-1886. Harlan had a close relationship with Abraham Lincoln during their short time together, and Lincoln's son Robert and Harlan's daughter Mary married in 1868. Signed "Jas. Harlan, u s s" [abbreviation for United States Senate, we assume] - it appears to be that this was a cut from an envelope that would have contained a letter he had sent - we don't know for sure.

Price: 85 USD

Location: Santa Clarita, California

End Time: 2024-10-20T23:45:39.000Z

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