Jones, Thomas Goode, 1844-1914

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Jones, Thomas Goode, 1844-1914

Language

English

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Jones, Thomas Goode, 1844-1914

Language

English

President Roosevelt thanks Judge Thomas Goode Jones for the suggestion, and says they may put it into action.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt lets Judge Thomas Goode Jones know that he has contacted Governor of New Mexico George Curry, a Democrat whose father was a Confederate soldier. Roosevelt is sorry about Jones’s son.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is “exceedingly concerned” about the conflict between Judge Jones and his colleague, saying it is a “bad thing in every way.” (The colleague in question is likely Oscar R. Hundley.)

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Judge Jones that he received the copy of The Montgomery Advertiser. He was just speaking with a “high-minded man” who was surprised the New York papers had declined to support Jones because they only wanted to show what the administration was doing wrong. Roosevelt wants to schedule a meal with Jones.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt praises Judge Jones for his action. Sadly, the conservative press of New York has failed to express the connection between Jones’s work and the situation. Roosevelt will see if he can “wake it up.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt praises Judge Jones for his action. Sadly, the conservative press of New York has failed to express the connection between Jones’s work and the situation. Roosevelt will see if he can “wake it up.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt was pleased to receive Judge Jones’s letter and opinion. He asked Judge Jeter Connelly Pritchard if there had been any failure to assist him. Any statement that Edward Terry Sanford suggested the administration would not support Pritchard is false. Roosevelt supports Goode and has prepared Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to speak regarding any obstructions of the federal process.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt praises Judge Jones for his recent action regarding the railroad cases and “will back [him] up in every way.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Judge Jones and is very satisfied with his appointment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt requests a meeting with Judge Jones.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

James M. Weatherly sends Judge Jones an editorial he would like President Roosevelt to see. Weatherly asks if Roosevelt could not accomplish a “winning of the South” and, by doing so, ease regional tensions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-02

Creator(s)

Weatherly, James M. (James Meriwether), 1856-1930

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary acknowledges the receipt of Thomas Goode Jones’s letter of sympathy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-10-19

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes Judge Jones that Roosevelt will not have time to reply to Governor B. B. Comer due to the political campaign.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-09-09

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary has received letters from both Judge Jones and B. B. Comer, and has had to write to Comer in Roosevelt’s absence, since Roosevelt is gone for a month on a speaking trip and will not have the time to reply when he returns.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-08-05

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt tells Judge Thomas Goode Jones that what Governor B. B. Comer said is true, and he did not make any statement of disappointment in Jones’s decision about the injunction. Likewise he knows Jones did not say in an interview last year, that Roosevelt had told Jones that Comer maligned or made statements about Jones to Roosevelt. Roosevelt writes only to ask Jones to be careful his name is not brought into any public controversies. Two copies included, one slightly edited.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt asks Judge Jones not to publish private letters they have exchanged. He assures Jones that he has already written to Judge Comer to let him know he is in error and that he could not allow private letters to be published.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt inquires after Judge Thomas Goode Jones’s son, Gordon H. Jones. While Roosevelt heard that he had “slipped once,” he had recently made good, and expresses his admiration for a man who makes an effort to redeem himself.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Judge Jones for the medal of Stonewall Jackson, and says that he appreciates it deeply. He was glad to have the opportunity to appoint Jones as a United States District Judge, and says that Jones does not owe him anything for the position, which he greatly deserves.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919