1892 SIGNED JOHN W FOSTER SECRETARY STATE BEN HARRISON

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GREAT LETTER SIGNED BY JOHN W FOSTER, GUARANTEED ORIGINAL, CHECK MY FEEDBACK AND BID WITH CONFIDENCE, LETTER SENT TO ROBERT LUDLOW FOWLER, "DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON." DATED 1892, SEE BIOGRAPHY BELOW,SEE PHOTO, NO RESERVE, Shipping is $2.00 in US, or $3.50 Foreign. Paypal, Bidpay, money order, and personal check accepted. Items not registered or insured, are sent at buyers risk. All items over $100.00 must be insured at buyers cost. I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEMS TO SAVE YOU MONEY !!! ----------------- John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836 âe" November 15, 1917) was an American military man, journalist and diplomat. Born in Petersburg, Indiana, and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War. Following the war he worked as a journalist, editing the Evansville Daily Journal from 1865 to 1869. Tafter he was the U.S. Minister to Mexico (1873-1880), to Russia (1880-1881) and to Spain (1883-1885). In the Benjamin Harrison Administration he served as a State Department "trouble shooter" before replacing James G. Blaine who had secumbed to what became a fatal attack of Bright's Disease. He served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison in 1892 and 1893. He also helped the Qing Dynasty in drafting the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 18 read more

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