"Secretary of the Treasury" Herbert L Satterlee Signed 2X3.25 Card For Sale

Up for sale the "Secretary of the Treasury" Herbert L Satterlee Signed 2X3.25 Card. 

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Herbert Livingston Satterlee (October

31, 1863 – July 14, 1947) was an American lawyer, writer, and businessman who

served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and

then the Assistant Secretary of the

Navy from 1908 to 1909.

Herbert

Livingston Satterlee was born in New York City in 1863. He was the son of

George Bowen Satterlee (1833–1903) and Sarah Brady Wilcox (b. 1836). His

siblings included Marion Satterlee and Richard T. Satterlee.

Through

his paternal grandmother, Mary LeRoy (née Livingston)

Satterlee (1811–1886), he is a member of the Livingston family and a direct descendant of Robert Livingston,

the 1st Lord of Livingston Manor. His

uncle was Henry Yates Satterlee (1843–1908),

the Episcopal Bishop of New York. Satterlee graduated

from Columbia University with

an undergraduate B.S. degree in 1884 as well was Columbia Law in 1885.  Satterlee was admitted to the bar in New

York in 1885, entering the office of Evarts, Choate and Beeman. During

the Spanish–American War, he

volunteered for duty in the Navy, serving as a lieutenant in the Navy

Department in Washington. Before and after the war, Satterlee pursued a

successful law practice, focused

primarily on corporate law and commercial law. Together with George F. Canfield and Harlan Fiske Stone, he was

a founding law partner of

Satterlee, Canfield & Stone, a predecessor of the present-day firm

Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP.

In

1908, President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt nominated

Satterlee as Assistant Secretary of the

Navy. Satterlee held this office from December 3, 1908, to March 5,

1909. He served as President of The Union League Club from

1938 - 1939.

Satterlee

authored several books, including a 1939 biography of his father-in-law

entitled J. Pierpont Morgan: An Intimate Portrait. On November 15, 1900,[8] he married Louisa

Pierpont Morgan (1866–1946), the oldest daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan. In 1910, Satterlee and

his wife purchased the Sotterley Plantation in Hollywood, Maryland. Together, they

were the parents of two daughters