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Lieutenant Governor Higgins asks President Roosevelt to find a political appointment for General Edward Charles O’Brien.
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1904-12-09
Lieutenant governor Frank Wayland Higgins thanks President Roosevelt for his congratulations on being elected governor of New York, and congratulates him in turn on being elected to another term as president.
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1904-11-09
Lieutenant Governor Higgins writes to William Loeb to confirm his attendance at an event the next Wednesday.
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1904-09-19
Governor Frank Wayland Higgins of New York received President Roosevelt’s letter and will respond by wire or phone tomorrow.
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1906-09-07
Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt acknowledging receipt of letters from Roosevelt and Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock. Higgins repeats what Hitchcock wrote in his letter and expresses disappointment that Hitchcock referred to businessman Theodore N. Barnsdall as the political friend of Higgins. Higgins goes on to mention that local residents do not favor Hitchcock’s policies regarding oil development in the southwest.
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1906-06-27
Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt that his friend, Theodore N. Barnsdall of the Kansas Natural Gas Company, would like to build a pipeline to St. Louis to supply its residents with natural gas. Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock has asked that Barnsdall install a meter on the wells so that a percentage of the receipts can be paid to the Cherokees, on whose land the wells are located. Higgins writes that this will be too expensive and a fixed rate should be paid instead.
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1906-05-10
Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt regarding Charles Rufus Skinner. Higgins empathizes with Skinner’s situation and would offer him a position if he had one available. He also thanks Roosevelt for advice concerning opposition to his administration. Higgins uses John Milton’s Paradise Lost as a metaphor for his political experiences.
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1906-01-11
Frank Wayland Higgins, governor of New York, writes to President Roosevelt, referencing an earlier letter, and mentions a “complete victory.”
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1906-01-04
Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt regarding Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth’s canvass for speakership. Higgins encloses a list of names of those who can be relied upon to support Wadsworth.
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1905-12-22
Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt, thanking him for a congratulatory letter. Higgins states that he is fight for “civic righteousness” which Roosevelt has supported. He also sends holiday greetings to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1905-12-21
New York Governor Higgins thanks President Roosevelt for his encouragement and support.
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1905-03-27
New York Lieutenant Governor Higgins encloses a self-explanatory letter to President Roosevelt, and says that he leaves the subject with Roosevelt “for such action as you deem proper.”
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1904-10-23
Governor Higgins received President Roosevelt’s letter. He contacted Senator William W. Armstrong, who informed him no action would be taken until they meet. Higgins would be glad to see James R. Sheffield appointed as counsel.
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1905-07-29
Frank W. Higgins wants an indictment against Henry Sigel Olean stopped. Higgins encloses a cable from Par B. Anderson, United States consular agent in Cuba, concerning the matter.
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1904-03-29
Lieutenant Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt to agree that the campaign should focus on national issues, rather than state issues. Higgins notes the “rapid manner in which sentiment has crystallized against the current State administration.”
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1904-10-03
Lieutenant Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt to tell him that he thinks it would be politically unwise to appoint an Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture from New York state before the national election.
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1904-09-25
Governor Higgins writes to President Roosevelt that he has received the medal designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens for Roosevelt’s inauguration and will give it to the Department of Education, which includes the State Museum.
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1905-07-13
New York’s Lieutenant Governor will comply with “pleasure” to Roosevelt’s request.
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1903-07-27
Lieutenant Governor Higgins provides an explanation of the current legislative battle regarding schools in New York. He concludes that the basic disagreement about the relative powers of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Regents has been turned into a religious issue between Protestants and Catholics. Higgins recommends that President Roosevelt avoid involvement in the issue.
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1903-03-11
Frank W. Higgins is opposed to “Addicksism” in Delaware and does not believe Mr. Young is qualified to be United States District Attorney for Brooklyn. Higgins mentions that he did not vote to confirm Louis F. Payn as Superintendent of Insurance because the people needed someone that they fully trusted.
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1902-11-24