Description

Description: Mellon signed this 1 ¾” x 3” card which is printed: “Autograph …Secretary of the Treasury”. It is accompanied by a stamped envelope to autograph collector Oliver B. Wait Jr. It is somewhat fascinating that the cancellation is dated Nov. 7, 1929… not much more than a week after Black Tuesday (Oct. 29)…the peak of the Wall Street crash of 1929.

Andrew Mellon (1855-1937) served as Secretary of the Treasury under three presidents: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. He presided over the booming 1920’s and the Wall Street Crash of 1929. After his service as Secretary of the Treasury, Mellon went on to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1932-1933) under Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mellon is remembered as a conservative Republican who aimed to lower taxes and opposed direct government intervention in the economy. He also helped to establish the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Item #A01927

Condition: Card and signature in very good condition. Envelope roughly torn open at right edge.