ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845). Seventh President of the United States 1829-37, unsuccessful Candidate in 1824 winning the plurality of votes but losing to John Quincy Adams by House decision, Major General and Hero of War of 1812.
April 2, 1835-Dated, Partly-Printed Vellum Patent Document Signed, “Andrew Jackson” as President, 1 page, measuring 12.5 x 14 inches, Very Fine. This Patent is headed, "The United States of America" beneath an ornate engraved title and states that "William Buxton, who hath Resided two years in the United States, hath alleged that he has invented a new and useful improvement in the Papillary Shield or Protector for Ladies' Sore Nipples." It continues that he has paid the required Thirty-dollar fee and petitioned for an exclusive right in the invention. The Patent grants Buxton, his heirs, administrators, or assigns the full and exclusive right to the improvement for a term of fourteen years from April 2, 1835, "a description whereof is given in the words of the said William Buxton himself, in the schedule hereunto annexed." It is signed "Andrew Jackson" as President with his large 5” long signature, and Countersigned, by “John Forsyth” as Secretary of State, with a certification below Signed, “Benjamin F. Butler” as Attorney General of the United States, confirming the Patent as being examined and conformable to law. This vellum document is complete retaining its original embossed paper and red wax Federal Seal with an attached Pink Silk Ribbon, and a matching long Silk Ribbon runs along the left margins spine.

This patent falls within the first year of Andrew Jackson's second term as president, a period of considerable personal notoriety for Jackson. In 1833 he had become the first sitting President to ride a railroad train, and on January 30, 1835, just over two months before signing this document, he survived the First Attempted Assassination of a sitting American President, when Richard Lawrence's pistol misfired at close range in the Capitol rotunda.
This scarce Patent document carries the signatures of three significant figures of the Jackson administration. Andrew Jackson signed as President; John Forsyth, a former Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator, served as his Secretary of State from 1834 until 1841, continuing into Martin Van Buren's presidency. Benjamin F. Butler, a New York lawyer and close political ally of Jackson within the influential "Albany Regency" political network, served as Attorney General from 1833 to 1838, one of the longer tenures in that office during this era, and briefly also served as acting Secretary of War in 1836-37; he later helped found what became New York University's law school.