ROOSEVELT THEODORE Partly printed Document Signed T Roosevel

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PRESIDENTIAL COMMUTATION ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Partly-printed Document Signed, "T. Roosevelt," as President, commuting the sentence of Franck Taylor Evans "by reducing his loss of numbers from one hundred and fifty to fifty." Countersigned by Attorney General Chares J. Bonaparte. 3 pages, folio, written on a folded sheet; moderate scattered soiling to first page, folds, paper seal intact. Washington, 1 March 1909

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With--a typed contemporary copy of a letter from Roosevelt to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, unsigned, giving a commendatory report about the character of Franck Taylor Evans grounded in his experience as Evans's superior officer in Panama and Puerto Rico. 4 pages, 4to. Oyster Bay, 26 January 1917.
Franck Taylor Evans (1875-1934) was a U.S. Navy Captain and son of Rear Admiral Robley D. "Fighting Bob" Evans. In November of 1908, Evans was sentenced to lose 150 "numbers" and be publicly reprimanded for a number of infractions, including drunkenness on duty and treating with contempt his superior officer. Loss of numbers had the consequence of increasing the amount of time before voluntary retirement became available; this form of punishment abolished by President Clinton in 1999.