Beauty Wire

Since then secretaries of the president have mimicked their master's signatures on these documents (known as "proxy" signatures). Virtually all movie stars have their secretaries foreboding their Autographs letters and photographs for them. When President Ronald Reagan was an actor during the 1940s, he had his mother sign his epithet to much of his fan mail.

During the American Civil Strife (1861-1865), the president of the Confederate States of America was Jefferson Davis. Due to his general correspondence, Davis' wife frequently signed his name to his dictated letters. As she duplicated his signature so well, she usually placed a period after the signature so that he could discern her signatures from his own.