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Important partly-printed DS as president, one page, 22.25 x 19, January 23, 1953. President Eisenhower appoints Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of Massachusetts as “the Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and the Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations.” Signed at the conclusion by Dwight D. Eisenhower and countersigned by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, whose signature is uniformly faded. The lower left retains the original beige wafer seal. In fine condition, with two trivial tears to the right edge.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902-1985) was an American diplomat and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate and managed Eisenhower's successful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination at the 1952 Republican National Convention. After losing his own re-election campaign to then-Congressman John F. Kennedy, Lodge was named as ambassador to the United Nations in 1953 and became a member of Eisenhower's cabinet. Vice President Nixon would later choose Lodge as his running mate in the 1960 presidential election. After losing once again to the now-President Kennedy, Lodge was appointed Ambassador to South Vietnam in 1963. He would go on to represent the United States in various countries under Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, and he led the U.S. delegation that signed the Paris Peace Accords with North Vietnam, leading to the end of the Vietnam War.
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