>This hand signed Autograph Slip measures approx. 3 1/2" x 1 1/4" and is signed on light weight, card stock. This is likely a portion of a Signature Card and not cut from a letter or document (given the card stock used). Justice Murphy signed the slip simply: "Frank Murphy". This signature came to us with a small collection of autograph material from Franklin Delano Roosevelt era Supreme Court Justices and Cabinet Members with those items with dates, dated between 1938 and 1944 and all signatures were executed while the signer was in office or sitting on the Supreme Court bench.
    The attractive Cut Signature Card in signed in dark, bold ink and is in very good condition - generally clean, crisp and beautiful with some adhesive residue on the reverse. The Autographed Label comes with a PSA/DNA Letter of Authenticity and is 100%, unconditionally guaranteed original and backed by our own “no questions asked” return policy and lifetime guarantee of authenticity. This wonderful and rare U.S. Supreme Court Justice Autograph is sold, as always, without reserve!!!! Good Luck!!! Be sure to check out this seller’s other auctions for 3 other examples of Signed / Manuscript material from United States Supreme Court Justices being offered for sale this week on eBay!!

A Bit about Justice Murphy from Wikipedia:
    Frank Murphy was born in Harbor Beach, Michigan in 1890. He attended the University of Michigan Law School and graduated with a BA in 1912 and LLB in 1914. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I and after leaving the service, opened a private law office in Detroit. He soon became the Chief Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. He taught at the University of Detroit for five years.
    In 1930, Murphy ran as a Democrat and was elected Mayor of Detroit, an office which he held from 1930 to 1933. He helped the unemployed during the Great Depression and was also a supporter of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. In 1933, Roosevelt appointed Murphy as the Governor-General of the Philippines. When his position as Governor-General was abolished in 1935, he stayed on as the United States High Commissioner until 1936. Murphy was elected Governor of Michigan on November 3, 1936, defeating Republican incumbent Frank Fitzgerald, and served one two-year term
    In 1939, President Roosevelt appointed Murphy as his Attorney General. He served one year, and established the first civil rights section in that department. He also was involved in a public and widespread crusade against organized crime. In 1940 President Roosevelt nominated Murphy to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Murphy took an expansive view of individual liberties, and the limitations on government he found in the Bill of Rights. On the Court, Murphy was a voice for protection of individual rights. John P. Frank, in "The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions", called him the Supreme Court's "most consistent voice for kindness, tolerance and humanity.". Opinions differ about him and his jurisprudential philosophy. He has been acclaimed as a legal scholar and a champion of the common man. Justice Felix Frankfurter disparagingly nicknamed Murphy "the Saint", criticizing his decisions as being rooted more in passion than reason. One of Justice Murphy's biographers called him a "priestly jurist" and "narcissistic." It is generally agreed that he principally made his greatest mark by being a liberal counterpoint to the court in his separate concurring and dissenting opinions. According to Justice Frankfurter, Murphy was part of the more liberal "Axis" of justices on the Court, along with Justices Rutledge, Douglas, and Black; the group would for years oppose Frankfurter's judicially-restrained ideology. Douglas, Murphy, and then Rutledge were the first justices to agree with Hugo Black's notion that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporated the Bill of Rights protection into it; this view would later become law. Justice Murphy died while still a sitting Supreme Court Justice on July 19, 1949. Overseasshippping is extra and cost will be quoted at bidders request. Massachusetts residents must add 5% sales tax. Insurance is required on all Domestic Shipping and not available on International Shipping.

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