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Document 16574

MARTIN VAN BUREN
Thirteen days before the presidential election, the President directs the U.S. seal to be affixed to an order remitting the fine and costs in a case.
Partly Printed Presidential Warrant signed: "M. Van Buren" as President, 1p, 7¾x10. Washington, 1840 October 21. In full: "I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State [John Forsyth] to affix the seal of the United States to the order remitting the fine and costs in the case of Henry White, in the District of Michigan dated this day, and signed by me and for so doing this shall be his warrant." President Van Buren had ordered that Henry White would not have to pay the fine and costs of his trial in the federal District of Michigan. Michigan had entered the union three years earlier, on January 26, 1837, as the 26th state. The President had been renominated at the Democratic National Convention seven months earlier in Baltimore, May 5-7, 1840. His opponent was Whig candidate William Henry Harrison, whom he defeated in 1836. The election was held 13 days after Van Buren signed this document. Harrison was elected the first Whig President and Van Buren became the first Democrat to run for reelection and lose. Yellow stains affect some of the text. Lightly creased, signature fine.

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