Herbert Hoover

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 20 x 14.75, July 11, 1932. President Hoover appoints Stanford Bates of Massachusetts as "a Trustee of the National Training School for Boys." Signed at the conclusion in ink by President Herbert Hoover and countersigned by Attorney General William D. Mitchell. The gold foil seal affixed to the lower left remains fully intact. Affixed to a same-size mount and in fine condition, with slightly trimmed edges.

Sanford Bates (1884–1872) was a politician and public administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons from 1930 to 1937. The National Training School For Boys, located in the Fort Lincoln area of Washington, D.C., was a federal juvenile correctional institution for offenders under the age of seventeen.