Theodore Roosevelt Signed Portrait.

Signed Portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt. Written below is the statement, "Signed at the White House, just before he left it March 4th 1909, for Hon. Robert Bacon, Sec’y of State, who presented it to me." Matted and framed. Measures 20"x15". Robert Bacon was named Assistant Secretary of State in 1905, a position which held until 1909— he was acting Secretary while Elihu Root was in South America in 1906. He was full Secretary for President Theodore Roosevelt (with whom he was friends at Harvard), from January 27 to March 5, 1909. Bacon obtained the advice and consent of the Senate for the Panama Canal treaties with Colombia and Panama. He served as United States Ambassador to France from 1909 until 1912. He became a Fellow of Harvard in 1912. The recipient of this photograph was surely quite friendly with Robert Bacon, the then Secretary of State. A striking image of President Roosevelt, with excellent provenance and signed on the last day of his Presidency.