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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
(1858 - 1919) Twenty-sixth President of the United States who started the Panama Canal, settled the Russo-Japanese War, broke up Standard Oil and encouraged conservation. Partly-printed D.S. "Theodore Roosevelt" as President, 1p. folio parchment, Washington, Mar. 21, 1908, the military commission of George Rodman Goethals to serve as: "Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers". Co-signed by Secretary of War and future president, WILLIAM H. TAFT. Signatures badly faded by dampness yet still legible, some foxing and staining, estimated accordingly. Framed. GEORGE RODMAN GOETHALS (1886-1973) was the son of the brilliant engineer George Washington Goethals who supervised the construction of Roosevelt's Panama Canal. The junior Goethals would serve with distinction during World War II.
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