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Stiff Card. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 4.25" X 5.25"; 1 pages; An engraved invitation (measures 4.25" X 5.25") printed on white card stock. The text reads "To meet The Members of Congress of The Committee Opposed to National Prohibition and The District Council of the Woman's Organization for National Prohibition Reform Miss Gurnee At Home on Wednesday evening February fourth at nine-thirty o'clock R.s.v.p. 1320 Sixteenth Street" Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Augustus Jay -- Peter Augustus Jay (1877 â" 1933) was an American diplomat born in 1877 at Newport, Rhode Island, into the esteemed Jay family that traces its direct lineage to John Jay, Founding Father and first United States Chief Justice. In 1902, he began his professional diplomatic career at the American embassy in Paris followed by service in Constantinople. Jay became Chargà d'Affaires in Tokyo in 1908, where he served until the end of 1909 when President William Howard Taft appointed him Consul General to Egypt in Cairo (1910 - 1913). In 1920, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Jay as U.S. Minister to El Salvador; soon after President Warren G. Harding, made him U.S. Minister to Romania (1921-1925), where he assisted in negotiating that country's repayment terms of $42 million for wartime and post World War I development loans. In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge appointed him U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. This was his last foreign service job, as he resigned his post and returned to Washington, D.C in December 1926, following the death of his young daughter Emily.