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ONE OF LINCOLN'S FIRST ACTS AS PRESIDENT; HE APPOINTS NORMAN B. JUDD THE MINISTER TO PRUSSIA
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865). Lincoln was the Sixteenth President.
NORMAN B. JUDD (1815-1878). Judd was a lawyer in Illinois and a member of the Illinois State Senate, where he befriended Abraham Lincoln. Judd served as a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention and placed Lincoln’s name at the Convention for President. He traveled with the President-elect from Illinois to Washington. Later in life, Judd was a Congressman from Illinois and the collector of the port of Chicago.
DS. 1pg. 18” x 15”. March 8, 1861, 1861. Washington. A diplomatic commission signed “Abraham Lincoln” as President and co-signed “William H. Seward” as Secretary of State. He appointed “Norman B. Judd of Illinois…Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, at Berlin.” Judd was appointed the Minister to Prussia on March 6, 1861 and served until 1865. After Lincoln, who was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, appointed his Cabinet, he then appointed his envoys. These diplomatic commissions are extremely rare; the American Book Prices Current shows only one Lincoln envoy document ever selling. Because this was such an early Lincoln commission, the President’s name was not engraved in the document; instead, it was handwritten. The Lincoln and Seward signatures are dark. The document underwent an extensive restoration, and there is a slightly dark band at the lower border and the document is encapsulated in Mylar. A great Lincoln item.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN