Lot 2008
The 1876-1877 Executive Department, ANS, signatures of the entire Grant cabinet on lined note paper, Ulysses S. Grant (President), Hamilton Fish (Sec of State), Lot M. Morrill (Sec of Treasury), James D. Cameron (Sec of War), George M. Robeson (Sec of Navy), Zachariah Chandler (Sec of Interior), James N. Tyner (Postmaster General), and Alphonso Taft (Attorney General), neatly mounted on a stamp exhibition page with Official India paper proofs from each Department, Very Fine and choice.
Estimate 5,000 - 7,500
THE ONLY RECORDED DOCUMENT AVAILABLE WITH SIGNATURES OF THE ENTIRE GRANT CABINET.
The document dates from late in the second term of the Grant administration. Alphonso Taft served as Secretary of War, March 8–May 22, 1876 when he was appointed attorney general of the United States, serving till the end of the Grant administration in 1877.
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