Partly-printed DS, one page, 16 x 20, August 1, 1919. Appointment for Howard R. McCleery as "Assistant Dental Surgeon in the Navy, with the rank Lieutenant junior grade." Signed at the conclusion by Roosevelt as acting secretary of the Navy. Blue seal remains partially affixed to lower vignette. In very good to fine condition, with a horizontal fold across the bottom, damage to the blue wafer seal, and scattered small stains along the perimeter border. Accompanied by two additional naval appointments for McCleery, one signed by Josephus Daniels and the other by Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. As a dental surgeon, McCleery was assigned to the Marine Corps barracks in Quantico, Virginia, during World War I.
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