Official "Penalty For Private Use" Postmarked 1896

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Lewis V. F. Randolph, accountant, director, treasurer and president of railways, banker, manager of estates, mayor, exchange president, traveler, poet, ranchman, horticulturist, publisher and lecturer, has had a widely varied and unique career.

...He visited the West Indies in 1903, and on his return he received an urgent and unanimous
invitation to take the presidency of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange of New York. He accepted it and again showed his capacity for administration in the reforms he instituted and in the progress he initiated. He was twice re-elected to the presidency without opposition, and was urged to continue in this position; but in 1906 he acted on a resolution long cherished, the suitable opportunity for which had now finally been reached, and he definitely retired from active business...