Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 12.75, July 26, 1861. President Lincoln appoints William R. Stratton "to be a Justice of the Peace, in the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia." Nicely signed at the conclusion in ink by President Abraham Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward. Embossed in the lower left with an official seal. Framed to an overall size of 16.75 x 14, with a clipped engraving of Lincoln affixed at lower left. In very good to fine condition, with light creasing and wrinkling, and a small oval portrait of Lincoln affixed beneath his signature. A desirable document signed by two casualties of the Lincoln assassination conspiracy: while John Wilkes Booth succeeded in killing President Lincoln, his associate Lewis Powell seriously wounded Secretary of State Seward in a stabbing at his home in Washington, D.C.
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