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Promoted upon the death of William McKinley a week earlier, President Roosevelt thanks McKinley’s Secretary of State John Thomas McDonough for the letter. Roosevelt assures McDonough that he intends to make no changes to the Cabinet.
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1901-09-20
Theodore Roosevelt is appreciative of all that John Thomas McDonough did in the unit.
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1915-06-09
President Roosevelt has received Judge McDonough’s letter and requests that McDonough tell him if there is any delay in the Filipino Bank matter. Roosevelt says that if an opportunity comes up to give McDonough the sort of judicial appointment that he wishes for he would be happy to oblige but that he cannot make any promises because he cannot predict when a vacancy would appear or who the candidates might be.
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1905-01-10
President Roosevelt welcomes Judge McDonough home from his position as the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands and requests to speak with him prior to any public address.
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1904-05-18
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from the War Department and wishes that a more satisfactory answer could be found. Roosevelt will show John Thomas McDonough’s letter to Secretary Root as soon as he returns.
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1903-10-27
President Roosevelt introduces Reverend Jeremiah J. Harty, the Archbishop of Manila.
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1903-09-10
President Roosevelt finds the friar question “puzzling” and would like to know what John Thomas McDonough thinks of the offer for the friars’ lands. Roosevelt wants to act with absolute fairness and is not concerned with political considerations or the opinions of “misguided” Catholics and Protestants.
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1903-08-11
President Roosevelt warns against divisions among the American representatives in the Philippines regarding the “friar business” and asks John Thomas McDonough to work towards an agreement.
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1903-07-29
George B. Cortelyou encloses a letter of introduction for John Thomas McDonough from President Roosevelt to Governor Taft.
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1903-02-13
President Roosevelt offers John Thomas McDonough a position on the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
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1903-01-21