BUSH, Jeb.
Jeb Bush Signed Everglades National Park First Day Cover.
Florida: , 1947.
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Rare Original 1947 First Day Cover Celebrating the Founding of Everglades National Park; Signed by Governor of Florida Jeb Bush
Rare 1947 first day cover produced to celebrate the founding of Everglades National Park signed by Jeb Bush. Dedication of Everglades National Park Florida envelope depicting a classic scene of the Everglades with a heron and trees covered in Spanish moss, postmarked "Florida City, Florida December 5, 1947 9-AM", with a Everglades National Park stamp worth 3 cents to the top right corner. Boldly signed by Governor of Florida Jeb Bush in black felt tip to the bottom right. Everglades National Park, established by Congress in 1947 and encompassing approximately 1.5 million acres at the southern tip of the Florida peninsula, is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States and one of the most ecologically complex and imperiled environments on the planet. Unlike the dramatic mountain and canyon landscapes that characterize most of America's celebrated national parks, the Everglades is defined by its flatness and its water — a slow-moving, shallow river of grass flowing southward from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay, supporting an extraordinary mosaic of ecosystems that includes sawgrass prairies, mangrove forests, cypress swamps, pine rocklands, and coastal estuaries. The park is home to an exceptional concentration of wildlife, including the Florida panther, the American crocodile, the West Indian manatee, and more than three hundred species of birds, and it holds the distinction of being simultaneously a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an International Biosphere Reserve, and a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention — a triple designation shared by very few protected areas anywhere in the world. In fine condition. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the T.B.E. Corporation and signed by Thomas B. Eisaman.
John Ellis Bush — universally known as Jeb Bush (born 1953) — is an American politician, businessman, and public servant who served as the forty-third Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, widely regarded as one of the most substantively accomplished and policy-driven chief executives in the state's modern history. The second son of President George H.W. Bush and the younger brother of President George W. Bush, Jeb Bush graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Latin American Studies and built a successful career in real estate and business in Florida before entering politics — losing a narrow gubernatorial race in 1994 before winning convincingly in 1998 and again in 2002. His two terms as governor were defined by an aggressive education reform agenda — including the institution of the Florida A-Plus accountability program, one of the nation's first comprehensive school grading systems — as well as significant environmental initiatives, a determined effort to reduce the size of state government, and his controversial intervention in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case in 2003. Since leaving electoral politics Bush has remained active in education policy, business, and civic life, and is broadly regarded as one of the more intellectually serious figures to emerge from the post-Reagan Republican mainstream.
Jeb Bush Signed Everglades National Park First Day Cover.
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