Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 21 x 16, December 14, 1922. President Harding appoints Adam R. Gard as a “Notary Public for the District of Columbia.” Signed neatly at the conclusion by Warren G. Harding and countersigned by Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. The original Department of Justice seal remains affixed to the lower left. In fine condition, with small stains to the side edges.
Adam R. Gard (1869-1944) was born in Illinois, graduated from Marshall High School, and soon began studying law. He was working in nearby Terre Haute, Indiana, when he married Francis E. Archer in 1894. The couple had a daughter Margaret in 1896; however, Francis died shortly after the birth, and Margaret was raised by relatives. Gard served in the U.S. Army during the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) and he worked for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in Manilla after the war. In 1908 he moved to the District of Columbia, where he worked for the Treasury Department and later the Attorney General. He retired from government work in 1935 and moved back to Marshall, where he resumed his law practice.
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