Oversized Document Signed

  • SIGNED framed
  • 1913
By WILSON, Woodrow (1856 - 1924) & BRECKINRIDGE, Henry (1886 - 1960)
1913. framed. good. Large official document appointing W. Laurence Hazard, First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Infantry in the National Guard of the District of Columbia. Signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Decorative document includes the presidential seal is also signed by Acting Secretary of War Henry Breckinridge, who served as Charles Lindbergh's attorney in the famous kidnapping trial. Mounted in gold frame with a portrait image of Wilson. Please inquire for more information.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era when Republicans dominated the presidency and legislative branches. As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism. *** Henry Skillman Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family and served as the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1913 to 1916. During the Lindbergh kidnapping trial he served as Charles Lindbergh's attorney. Breckinridge opposed the New Deal from the right. As an opponent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Democratic primaries he polled less than 3 percent of the vote.


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