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President Roosevelt appoints Assistant Attorney General Cooley as the representative of the Department of Justice on the Central Committee of the American National Red Cross.
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1907-11-27
President Roosevelt acknowledges a telegram from Assistant Attorney General Cooley and asks that he get a sworn statement from Leary.
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1907-03-16
President Roosevelt congratulates Alford Warriner Cooley and his wife Susan Dexter Dolton Cooley on the birth of their son.
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1905-09-29
President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt congratulate Alford Warriner Cooley and his new wife, Susan Dexter Dalton Cooley, on their marriage.
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1904-12-01
President Roosevelt has had Commissioner of Corporations Garfield prepare an answer to the enclosed letter from Swift. Roosevelt would like Civil Service Commissioner Cooley to attend to such attacks, especially within the next ninety days when it will be of most use to Roosevelt.
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1904-08-15
President Roosevelt thinks that Civil Service Commissioner Cooley’s suggestion is admirable and is pleased that Cooley approves of General John Charles Black’s appointment.
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1903-12-18
President Roosevelt thinks that it is nonsense that there has been debate over whether the order classified fourth class postmasters. Either the Civil Service Commission will agree that they never intended to classify fourth class postmasters or Roosevelt will create a new order removing fourth class postmasters from the classified service.
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1903-09-18
President Roosevelt asks if the recent revision of civil service rules added fourth class postmasters to the classified service as he does not remember any member of the commission speaking to him of it.
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1903-09-11
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Mrs. Turner to Jacob Riis. Roosevelt asks Alford Warriner Cooley to look into the case and communicate with Riis.
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1903-08-27
President Roosevelt agrees with Alford Warriner Cooley’s views on John Robert Procter and is glad they are getting along.
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1903-08-01
President Roosevelt asks Alfred Warriner Cooley if he will accept the position of Civil Service Commissioner and, if yes, when he can start working.
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1903-06-13
George B. Cortelyou encloses the note from President Roosevelt to Postmaster General Payne.
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1902-10-24
President Roosevelt introduces Theodore Cox of Yonkers to Alford Warriner Cooley.
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1902-01-08
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs Alford Warriner Cooley that the position in question is a presidential appointment. Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long is only responsible for documenting the history of an applicant and keeping tabs on them. If someone notable, such as a congressman or Vice President Garret A. Hobart, write a letter on behalf of Mr. Phelps to President William McKinley, and sends a copies of the letters to Long, Roosevelt will put in a good word for him as well.
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1897-06-09
President-elect Taft acknowledges Alford Warriner Cooley’s recommendation of Harry Skinner for judgeship in North Carolina. Taft notes that President Roosevelt will likely appoint Skinner, but will consider the matter if it should come to him.
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1909-01-18
Representative Parsons explains some political considerations he has made in New York County to Assistant Attorney General Cooley. Parsons has decided to cooperate in municipal elections with William Randolph Hearst, and asks that Cooley explain his reasoning to President Roosevelt.
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1907-10-12
New York City Postmaster Willcox sends Civil Service Commissioner Cooley an official circular regarding the regulation of political activity among those in the federal service, and wonders if he has been interpreting the regulations correctly. Willcox has been focused on carrying out “the spirit as well as the letter of the Civil Service regulations” and believes that political activity by federal employees in primary contests is as strictly prohibited as political activity before the general elections. Willcox asks Cooley if he is being too strict in his interpretation, specifically asking about the case of Deputy Surveyor Collin H. Woodward, who was cleared after Cooley found the charges against him in regard to political activity to be unfounded.
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1906-08-31
Richard Henry Dana writes to Civil Service Commissioner Cooley to defend President Roosevelt’s record on civil service reform. He asks Cooley to send the details of Roosevelt’s reforms so that he can use the facts in an editorial he is preparing.
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1904-10-03
Albert V. De Roode, assistant secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League, informs Civil Service Commissioner Cooley that Carl Schurz believes Judge Alton B. Parker “would strongly support civil service reform in his letter of acceptance.”
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1904-08-10
