Portrait of Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder

Portrait of Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder - This is a printed portrait of Lawrence Douglas Wilder, the 66th Governor of Virginia elected in November of 1989. At the time of his election, Douglas was the first African-American governor of a U.S. state following the Reconstruction era. Douglas served until 1994, and returned to elected office in 2005 as the mayor of Richmond, Virginia. This lot features a reproduction of the governor's signature in the upper right corner.