DS, signed "Charles E. Hughes," one page, 9 x 12.25, November 17, 1909. A state of New York 'Thanksgiving Proclamation,' in which Hughes as governor, appoints "Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November, in the year nineteen hundred and nine, as a day of General Thanksgiving." Signed prominently at the conclusion by Hughes. The original gold foil seal remains affixed to the lower left. In fine condition. Accompanied by an original front page from the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper, dated November 7, 1916, which ran the premature headline, "Hughes Is Elected President."
The results of the 1916 presidential election between Hughes and Woodrow Wilson were exceptionally close and the outcome remained in doubt for some time. Some New York newspapers declared Hughes the winner on Wednesday morning, including The World and The Sun, which erroneously published that six states (California, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming) had voted for Hughes. A popular legend from the campaign states that Hughes went to bed on election night thinking that he was the newly elected president. When a reporter tried to telephone him the next morning to get his reaction to Wilson's comeback, someone answered the phone and told the reporter that 'the president is asleep.' The reporter retorted, 'When he wakes up, tell him he isn't the president.'
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