1922 Signed Autograph White House Letter President Warren G Harding Sen. Taggart
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An amazing piece of US President history in the form of a signed 1922 letter from President Warren G. Harding to political boss of the Democratic Party and at the time United States Senator Thomas Taggart. Penned from the White House while Harding was president. The letter is typed on official White House letterhead and comes with its original White House mailing envelope! Letterhead and envelope both boast White House embossed logo. Let...ter discusses an illness that First Lady Harding is recovering from. Base of letter signed and boasts a brilliant full length signature in ink from Harding. Typed letter reads:
September 13, 1922.
My dear Senator Taggart,
Christian handed me your thoughtful message of this morning and I told him I wanted to make acknowledgement myself. It was good of you to express your interest and kindly wishes. Happily Mrs. Harding is greatly improved, and we now believe she is going to make a full recovery. Pray, do not fail to come and see us when you come to Washington.
Very truly yours,
Warren G. Harding
Hon. T. Taggart, French Lick, Ind.
Letter in Excellent overall condition. Clean and bright. Exhibits only gentle wear and a horizontal fold line. Envelope shows gentle wear. Autograph is clean and bright; a wonderful example of his signature.
Guaranteed genuine so please buy with confidence. Provenance comes directly from the family of the Honorable Thomas Taggart (Senator, Mayor of Indianapolis and Chairman of the National Democratic Committee) and more specifically his great grandson David Chambers (b.1940). Chambers is a retired college professor of Law who taught at the University of Michigan for nearly 40 years. His grandmother was Nora Taggart, his great uncle was Thomas Taggart Jr. and his great aunt was Lucy Taggart. Please note we will be listing several letters from this collection with the majority addressed to Thomas Taggart as well as his son and daughter Thomas and Lucy. Please view our other presidential letters from the Taggart/Chambers collection currently available in our eBay store.
David L. Chambers is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He practiced in Washington and served on the staff of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. He is the author of Making Fathers Pay, an empirical inquiry into the enforcement of child support. He is noted for work on the differing experiences of men and women in the law profession as well as for work on AIDS and on child custody, same-sex marriage, and other issues in family law. He has served as president of the Society of American Law Teachers and as co-chair of the Task Force on Diversity in Law Schools for the Association of American Law Schools. He began his academic career at Michigan in 1969 and retired in 2002 to write fiction. His novel, The Old Whitaker Place, is the co-winner of the 2009 Miami University Press Novella Contest. It was published in June 2010.- source: University Michigan Law Faculty Biographies
Thomas Taggart (November 17, 1856 – March 6, 1929) was the political boss of the Democratic Party in Indiana for the first quarter of the twentieth century and remained an influential political figure in local, state, and national politics until his death. Taggart was elected auditor of Marion County, Indiana (1886–1894) and mayor of Indianapolis (1895 to 1901). His mayoral administration supported public improvements, most notably the formation of the city's park and boulevard system. He also served as a member of the Democratic National Committee (1900–1916) and as its chairman (1904–1908). Taggart was appointed to the U.S. Senate in March 1916, but lost the seat in the November election.
Taggart, an Irish-born immigrant, came to the United States in 1861 at the age of five, grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and moved to Indiana as a teenager. After relocating to Indianapolis in 1877, he began a successful career as an hotelier, financier, and politician. As the party's county chairman during Grover Cleveland's 1888 presidential campaign, Taggart helped him carry Marion County over RepublicanBenjamin Harrison, the hometown candidate. As state chairman in 1892, Taggart helped Cleveland carry Indiana in opposition to Harrison's bid for reelection. In 1908 Taggart assisted in securing the Democratic nomination of John W. Kern for U.S. vice president and Thomas R. Marshall for governor of Indiana. He was also involved in securing the nomination of Woodrow Wilson for U.S. president and Marshall for vice president in 1912, as well as James M. Cox's nomination in the 1920 presidential election. In addition to his political activities, Taggart was the owner and developer of the French Lick Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana; he also maintained a summer home at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Thomas Taggart was born on November 17, 1856, to Thomas and Martha Kingsbury Taggart in Emyvale, County Monaghan, Ireland, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1861 at the age of five. The Taggarts settled in Xenia, Ohio, where Thomas senior worked at a local railroad depot. Young Taggart left high school early to work full-time at the depot's hotel and restaurant. In 1875, when young Thomas was 18, his employer, the N. and G. Ohmer Company, sent him to Garrett, Indiana, to work in the restaurant at DeKalb House, a depot hotel. Thomas remained at Garrett until 1877, when he was transferred to Indianapolis, Indiana, to work as a clerk for the Ohmer company's dining hall/restaurant at the city's Union Depot. Known as a hard worker, Taggart became the depot restaurant's manager and eventually its sole owner in the new Union Station.[2][3][4]
In 1878, a year after his move to Indianapolis, Taggart married Eva Dora Bryant (1853–1937), [1] whom he met while living in Garrett. Thomas and his wife were the parents of six children, five daughters and one son. Florence Eva (1878–1899) died tragically in a yachting accident in the Gulf of Mexico; Lucy Martha (1880–1960) became an accomplished artist and art educator at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis; Nora (born 1881), a Vassar College graduate, married David L. Chambers, who became president and chairman of the Bobbs-Merrill Company; Irene Mary (born 1883) married a physician from Louisville, Kentucky; Emily Letitia (born 1888) married William R. Sinclair, an executive with Kingan and Company, an Indianapolis-based meatpacker; and Thomas Douglas (born 1886) graduated from Yale University and in 1912 assumed management of the French Lick Springs Hotel. Thomas and Eva Taggart also had nine grandchildren.[5]Source: Wikipedia
Lucy Taggart (March 7, 1880 – October 9, 1960) was an artist and art educator from Indianapolis, Indiana, and the daughter of Thomas Taggart, a successful hotelier and influential Indiana politician. Recognized as a talented and versatile artist during a career that spanned the first three decades of the twentieth century, she studied with several noted artists, such as William Merritt Chase, John Henry Twachtman, Kenyon Cox, William Forsyth, Otto Stark, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Cecilia Beaux, and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth. Taggart, who was especially known for her portraiture, received the John Herron Art Institute's J. Irving Holcomb Prize in 1922, the Hoosier Salon's Merit Award for figure composition in 1925, and the Hoosier Salon's Merit Award in 1926 for best picture painted by a woman. Her work is represented in the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.Source: Wikipedia
Measures 8 3/4” x 7”. Envelope measures 7 1/4” x 4 3/4”. Document will be shipped via insured USPS Priority mail. If you have alternate shipping requests please message us directly or ask at checkout.
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September 13, 1922.
My dear Senator Taggart,
Christian handed me your thoughtful message of this morning and I told him I wanted to make acknowledgement myself. It was good of you to express your interest and kindly wishes. Happily Mrs. Harding is greatly improved, and we now believe she is going to make a full recovery. Pray, do not fail to come and see us when you come to Washington.
Very truly yours,
Warren G. Harding
Hon. T. Taggart, French Lick, Ind.
Letter in Excellent overall condition. Clean and bright. Exhibits only gentle wear and a horizontal fold line. Envelope shows gentle wear. Autograph is clean and bright; a wonderful example of his signature.
Guaranteed genuine so please buy with confidence. Provenance comes directly from the family of the Honorable Thomas Taggart (Senator, Mayor of Indianapolis and Chairman of the National Democratic Committee) and more specifically his great grandson David Chambers (b.1940). Chambers is a retired college professor of Law who taught at the University of Michigan for nearly 40 years. His grandmother was Nora Taggart, his great uncle was Thomas Taggart Jr. and his great aunt was Lucy Taggart. Please note we will be listing several letters from this collection with the majority addressed to Thomas Taggart as well as his son and daughter Thomas and Lucy. Please view our other presidential letters from the Taggart/Chambers collection currently available in our eBay store.
David L. Chambers is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He practiced in Washington and served on the staff of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. He is the author of Making Fathers Pay, an empirical inquiry into the enforcement of child support. He is noted for work on the differing experiences of men and women in the law profession as well as for work on AIDS and on child custody, same-sex marriage, and other issues in family law. He has served as president of the Society of American Law Teachers and as co-chair of the Task Force on Diversity in Law Schools for the Association of American Law Schools. He began his academic career at Michigan in 1969 and retired in 2002 to write fiction. His novel, The Old Whitaker Place, is the co-winner of the 2009 Miami University Press Novella Contest. It was published in June 2010.- source: University Michigan Law Faculty Biographies
Thomas Taggart (November 17, 1856 – March 6, 1929) was the political boss of the Democratic Party in Indiana for the first quarter of the twentieth century and remained an influential political figure in local, state, and national politics until his death. Taggart was elected auditor of Marion County, Indiana (1886–1894) and mayor of Indianapolis (1895 to 1901). His mayoral administration supported public improvements, most notably the formation of the city's park and boulevard system. He also served as a member of the Democratic National Committee (1900–1916) and as its chairman (1904–1908). Taggart was appointed to the U.S. Senate in March 1916, but lost the seat in the November election.
Taggart, an Irish-born immigrant, came to the United States in 1861 at the age of five, grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and moved to Indiana as a teenager. After relocating to Indianapolis in 1877, he began a successful career as an hotelier, financier, and politician. As the party's county chairman during Grover Cleveland's 1888 presidential campaign, Taggart helped him carry Marion County over RepublicanBenjamin Harrison, the hometown candidate. As state chairman in 1892, Taggart helped Cleveland carry Indiana in opposition to Harrison's bid for reelection. In 1908 Taggart assisted in securing the Democratic nomination of John W. Kern for U.S. vice president and Thomas R. Marshall for governor of Indiana. He was also involved in securing the nomination of Woodrow Wilson for U.S. president and Marshall for vice president in 1912, as well as James M. Cox's nomination in the 1920 presidential election. In addition to his political activities, Taggart was the owner and developer of the French Lick Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana; he also maintained a summer home at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Thomas Taggart was born on November 17, 1856, to Thomas and Martha Kingsbury Taggart in Emyvale, County Monaghan, Ireland, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1861 at the age of five. The Taggarts settled in Xenia, Ohio, where Thomas senior worked at a local railroad depot. Young Taggart left high school early to work full-time at the depot's hotel and restaurant. In 1875, when young Thomas was 18, his employer, the N. and G. Ohmer Company, sent him to Garrett, Indiana, to work in the restaurant at DeKalb House, a depot hotel. Thomas remained at Garrett until 1877, when he was transferred to Indianapolis, Indiana, to work as a clerk for the Ohmer company's dining hall/restaurant at the city's Union Depot. Known as a hard worker, Taggart became the depot restaurant's manager and eventually its sole owner in the new Union Station.[2][3][4]
In 1878, a year after his move to Indianapolis, Taggart married Eva Dora Bryant (1853–1937), [1] whom he met while living in Garrett. Thomas and his wife were the parents of six children, five daughters and one son. Florence Eva (1878–1899) died tragically in a yachting accident in the Gulf of Mexico; Lucy Martha (1880–1960) became an accomplished artist and art educator at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis; Nora (born 1881), a Vassar College graduate, married David L. Chambers, who became president and chairman of the Bobbs-Merrill Company; Irene Mary (born 1883) married a physician from Louisville, Kentucky; Emily Letitia (born 1888) married William R. Sinclair, an executive with Kingan and Company, an Indianapolis-based meatpacker; and Thomas Douglas (born 1886) graduated from Yale University and in 1912 assumed management of the French Lick Springs Hotel. Thomas and Eva Taggart also had nine grandchildren.[5]Source: Wikipedia
Lucy Taggart (March 7, 1880 – October 9, 1960) was an artist and art educator from Indianapolis, Indiana, and the daughter of Thomas Taggart, a successful hotelier and influential Indiana politician. Recognized as a talented and versatile artist during a career that spanned the first three decades of the twentieth century, she studied with several noted artists, such as William Merritt Chase, John Henry Twachtman, Kenyon Cox, William Forsyth, Otto Stark, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Cecilia Beaux, and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth. Taggart, who was especially known for her portraiture, received the John Herron Art Institute's J. Irving Holcomb Prize in 1922, the Hoosier Salon's Merit Award for figure composition in 1925, and the Hoosier Salon's Merit Award in 1926 for best picture painted by a woman. Her work is represented in the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.Source: Wikipedia
Measures 8 3/4” x 7”. Envelope measures 7 1/4” x 4 3/4”. Document will be shipped via insured USPS Priority mail. If you have alternate shipping requests please message us directly or ask at checkout.
Please enjoy the photos for further item details and if you have any questions feel free to ask. This item ships Worldwide. Fast payment ensures prompt shipping. Thank you and be sure to check out our other listings!
