1889 AUTOGRAPH of GEORGE M ROBESON, New Jersey, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY & OF WAR!

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On card stock, which measures approximately 2 1/4" x 3 1/2"
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George Maxwell Robeson (March 16, 1829 – September 27, 1897) was an American Republican Party politician, lawyer from New Jersey, Union army general during the American Civil War, Secretary of the Navy appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant serving from 1869 to 1877, and U.S. Representative for New Jersey serving from 1879 to 1883. Robeson's tenure as Secretary of Navy, lasting about seven and a half years, was second in length only to that of Gideon Welles during the 19th century.
Robeson was the subject of two Congressional investigations in 1876 and 1878 concerning profiting and bribery charges from shipbuilding contracts, but was exonerated for lack of material evidence. Robeson served briefly as both Secretary of Navy and as ad interim Secretary of War after Secretary of War William W. Belknap abruptly resigned in 1876.
As U.S. Representative for New Jersey, Congressman Robeson served as minority leader of the Republican Party. Defeated from office by Democrat Thomas M. Ferrell in a bitter highly contested 1882 election campaign, Robeson was left ,000 in debt and forced to sell his Washington D.C. property. As a result of his financial troubles, his wife and family abandoned him while traveling abroad. Robeson moved to Trenton, resumed his law practice, and lived a modest lifestyle until his death in 1897. Due to his striking personal traits and size, Robeson was one of the most caricatured individuals during the 19th century by cartoonists.
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