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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Extradition Document Signed as New York Governor.
-February 9, 1932. Albany, New York. One page. 11" x 8.5". Partly-printed, completed in manuscript, 2.5" diameter gold state seal affixed.
-To: the Governor of Massachusetts.
-Multiple folds and some crinkling, one staple hole, else very good.

FDR honors a request to surrender the fugitive from justice Joseph Shields, issuing a warrant for his delivery to William H. Shields, agent of Massachusetts. Interestingly, this document form is dated 1931 in print but in both cases, "1931" has been crossed out and "1932" written in. Also signed by Counsel for the Governor Samuel I. Rosenman who would later become the first official White House Counsel and one of Roosevelt's key speechwriters.


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