William H. Taft Appointment

Partly-printed DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 21 x 16, September 1, 1912. President Taft appoints Mark Dye Weed for the First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corp of the United States.” Signed crisply at the conclusion by William H. Taft and countersigned by Assitant and Chief Clerk for the Secretary of War In His Absence. The blue War Office seal remains affixed to the lower left. In fine condition.

William H. Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth chief justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for reelection in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position he held until a month before his death.

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