1945 Josephus Daniels Signed Letter WWI Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Ambassador for Sale

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1945 Josephus Daniels Signed Letter WWI Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Ambassador For Sale

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1945 Josephus Daniels Signed Letter WWI Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Ambassador:
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1945 Josephus Daniels Signed Letter WWI Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Ambassador
Signed letter dated January 17, 1945 on \"The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C.\" letterhead.
Josephus Daniels (May 18, 1862 – January 15, 1948) was an American diplomat and newspaper editor from the 1880s until his death, who managed The News & Observer in Raleigh, at the time North Carolina\'s largest circulation newspaper, for decades. A Democrat, he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to serve as Secretary of the Navy during World War I. He became a close friend and supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy. After Roosevelt was elected President of the United States, he appointed Daniels as his U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, serving from 1933 to 1941. Daniels was a vehement white supremacist and segregationist. Along with Charles Brantley Aycock and Furnifold McLendel Simmons, he was a leading perpetrator of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898.This is part of a large collection of autographs that I will be listing over the next couple of days.