RARE “Garfield\'s Attorney General\" Wayne MacVeagh Signed 2X4.5 Card Dated 1900 For Sale

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RARE “Garfield\'s Attorney General\" Wayne MacVeagh Signed 2X4.5 Card Dated 1900:
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Up for sale "Garfield's Attorney General" Wayne MacVeagh Hand Signed 2X4.5 Card. 

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Wayne MacVeagh (April

19, 1833 – January 11, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. He served as the 36th Attorney General of the United States under the

administrations of Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. MacVeagh was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania,

on April 19, 1833, the son of Major John MacVeagh and Margaret (née Lincoln) MacVeagh. His brother, Franklin MacVeagh, was a banker and U.S.

Secretary of the Treasury under President William Howard Taft. He

attended Yale University,

where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity

(Phi chapter), and graduated tenth in his class in 1853. He was admitted to the

bar in 1856, and was the District Attorney of Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 1859 through 1864. During

the American Civil War he joined the emergency militia of

Pennsylvania that was organized against the threat of Confederate invasion

in 1862 and 1863. He raised an independent cavalry company and later served in

the 29th Emergency Militia Regiment, reaching the rank of major. MacVeagh

became a leader in the Republican Party and

was a prominent opponent of his father-in-law, Simon Cameron, in the fight within the party in 1871. He was the Ambassador to the Ottoman

Empire in 1870 through 1871, and was a member of the

state constitutional convention of 1872 and 1873. In

1875, MacVeagh co-founded the Philadelphia-based law firm known today as Dechert LLP. He also served as Chairman of the MacVeagh

Commission, sent in 1877 by President Rutherford B. Hayes to Louisiana, which secured the settlement of the contest between

two existing state governments and

thus made possible the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the state. MacVeagh

served as the 36th Attorney

General in 1881 under President James A. Garfield. He resigned after President Arthur was to be 21st President and

MacVeagh served as a cabinet member.  In 1892, he supported Grover Cleveland, the Democratic nominee

for the presidency, and from 1893 to 1897 he served as Ambassador to Italy.

He returned to the Republican Party in

1896. In 1903, he was an chief counsel of the United States before the Hague tribunal in the case regarding the republic of Venezuela.  After the outbreak of World War I MacVeagh championed the cause of the Allies in an article

"The Impossible Chasm", contributed to the North American Review in

July 1915. In his last article "Lusitania Day: May 7 1916", for the

same magazine, he assailed the slowness of the American government in asserting

its rights against Germany. 

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