Presidency / Presidential Campaigns
Before 1870
President Ulysses S. Grant used this pen to sign the presidential proclamation of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment enfranchising African American men.
Interpretive text provided by the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
Wood, brass, metal. L 26, W 0.6 cm
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, NMAH 243496.01