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William Mckinley Historic Signed Photo

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William Mckinley Historic Signed Photo

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Auction Date:2014 Oct 24 @ 20:00 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Location:4000 Ponce DeLeon Blvd. Suite #470, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
MCKINLEY, WM., 25th President of the U.S., MCKINLEY, IDA, First Lady, HOBART, GARRETT, V.P of U.S., GARRETT, JENNIE T., wife of VP. SP. An exceedingly rare and historic picture of a group of people (included these four) seated on a platform. The image is 6 X 8” mounted to 10 x 8” on board. Some of the other people on the stand who did not sign are John W. Griggs (attorney general), Ethan Hitchcock (secretary of the interior), O. D. Seavey (manager of the Ponce de Leon Hotel), Elizabeth P. Griggs, and Princess Elizabeth Huntington Prentice. In fine condition other than missing part of the mount, in the lower left hand courner.

During his tenure as vice president from 1897 to 1899, Hobart’s wife frequently performed the duties of First Lady as Ida Saxton McKinley suffered from epilepsy. Such was not the case here, however, as both Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Garret joined their husbands on the dais. One of the McKinleys' friends and the president’s closest confidants and advisers at a time when the vice president held virtually no real authority, Hobart died of heart failure in 1899. A highly unusual portrait!