1850 Fitz Henry Warren & Secretary of Navy William Alexander Graham duo-signed letter

September 12, 1850 letter signed by William Alexander Graham as United States Secretary of the Navy, addressed to John G. Walker of 2nd congressional district, Iowa.  Includes additional notation signed by Fitz Henry Warren.  Official correspondence between a man who later would represent the Confederacy in the Confederate Senate (North Carolina) and the man who would rise through the ranks in his support for the Union in the Civil War.  Fold marks and top staining, with condition as pictured. Historical/political context for this 1850 exchange: Fitz Henry Warren was appointed First Assistant Postmaster General by President Zachary Taylor in 1849.  After the death of Taylor in July, 1850, Warren resigned his position in protest of President Millard Fillmore's support of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (signed September 18, 1850). Warren was chairman of the Des Moines County Iowa delegation to the convention of 1856 that organized the Republican Party and nominated John C. Frémont as the