Calvin Coolidge
Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 23 x 18, January 9, 1924. President Coolidge appoints Captain Philip Williams as "Governor of the Virgin Islands ceded to the United States by Denmark." Signed at the conclusion by President Coolidge and countersigned by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. The embossed paper seal affixed to the lower left remains present, but clipped along one edge. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing, staining, and creasing. Denmark had sold the Virgin Islands to the United States in 1917 for the sum of $25,000,000 in gold via the Treaty of the Danish West Indies. By this appointment, Williams became the sixth military governor of the new American territory.
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 23 x 18, January 9, 1924. President Coolidge appoints Captain Philip Williams as "Governor of the Virgin Islands ceded to the United States by Denmark." Signed at the conclusion by President Coolidge and countersigned by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. The embossed paper seal affixed to the lower left remains present, but clipped along one edge. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing, staining, and creasing. Denmark had sold the Virgin Islands to the United States in 1917 for the sum of $25,000,000 in gold via the Treaty of the Danish West Indies. By this appointment, Williams became the sixth military governor of the new American territory.
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