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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Auction Date:2017 May 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:236 Commercial St., Suite 100, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Manuscript DS as president, one page, 23 x 19, July 24, 1941. President Roosevelt appoints Thomas M. Wilson of Tennessee as "Commissioner of the United States of America to India with the rank of Minister." Boldly signed at the conclusion by Roosevelt and countersigned by Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The white paper seal affixed to the lower left remains fully intact. In fine condition, with scattered light creasing. During his career, Thomas M. Wilson served as consul in China, Madras, and Bombay, as consul general in Sydney, and as minister/consul general in Iraq. This was a significant appointment in the history of the Indian independence movement, opening quasi-diplomatic relations between the United States and a not-yet-free India. Roosevelt did much to pressure Winston Churchill to modify British policy toward the nation, especially as India became a major base of operations against the Japanese in World War II.