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| Lot # 17 PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON - MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED 07/25/1868 - Document 100624 |
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ANDREW JOHNSON
One of three successive nominations of U.S. Minister Resident to Ecuador not
confirmed by the Senate after they failed to remove him from office.
Manuscript Message of the President signed: "Andrew Johnson" as
17th U.S. President, 1p, 8½x11¾, inlaid to 9½x12¾. Washington, D.C., 1868
July 25. "To the Senate/of the United States". In full:
"I nominate George H. Parker, of Iowa, to be Minister Resident to Ecuador, to
fill a vacancy." Docketed on verso: "No 749/40 Cong/2d
Session/Nomination/of George H. Parker,/of Iowa, to be Min-/ister to
Ecuador/1868-July 27 read,/referred to Com./on Foreign Relations/& ordered
to lie." This document is quoted verbatim in the "Journal of the
Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873",
Monday, July 27, 1868, as a "message received from the President of the United
States, by Mr. Moore, his secretary". On July 27th, it was "Ordered, That
the nomination of George H. Parker be referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations... Mr. [Charles] Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign
Relations...reported favorably thereon...The Senate, by unanimous consent, proceeded
to consider the nominations of Alfred T. Lacy, Charles W. Champlin, James C.
Shea, Wm. Aiken, George H. Parker, Henry C. Hunt, George W. Summers, Thomas C.
Allen, and John Whelan; and Ordered, That the said nominations lie on the
table." On August 3, 1867, William T. Coggeshall, U.S. Minister Resident
to Ecuador since September 20, 1866, died in Guapolo, Ecuador. On February
21, 1868, President Johnson nominated James R. Hubbell of Ohio to succeed
him, but his nomination was rejected by the U.S. Senate. Then, this
nomination of GEORGE H. PARKER and eight other appointments were ordered to "lie
on the table" which effectively killed them. On January 28, 1869,
Johnson nominated Shelah Waters of Tennessee but Waters' nomination was also
referred to committee. It was not until Grant became President that the
United States finally sent a Minister to Ecuador, David A. Nunn of
Tennessee. President ANDREW JOHNSON had been impeached earlier in
1868. He was accused of usurpation of the law, corrupt use of the veto
power, interference at elections and misdemeanors. On May 16, 1868, Johnson was
found not guilty on all charges by a vote of 35 guilty, 19 not guilty, just one
vote short of the two-thirds (36) necessary for removal from office. For the
remaining ten months of his term, very few of his nominations were confirmed by
the Senate. Official messages of the President to the U.S. Senate rarely appear
on the market. Creased. Horizontal folds had separated and were reattached
by inexpert tape (remnants at left, right and lower blank margins) and then by
inlaying. Lightly soiled in blank areas. Torn edges repaired by inlaying with a
½x1/8-inch portion missing at left edge. Verso shows tape repairs at blank
folds, is creased and soiled. Docketed at center panel, pencil notes, unknown
hand at left panel.
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