Oliver, Robert Shaw, 1847-1935

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-25

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Recipient

Oliver, Robert Shaw, 1847-1935

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Oliver, Robert Shaw, 1847-1935

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Oliver, Robert Shaw, 1847-1935

President Roosevelt sends Acting Secretary of War Oliver a self-explanatory letter from Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Henry S. Pritchett. If Roosevelt has the power, he would like to appoint Pritchett’s son, Harry H. Pritchett, to a position in the army.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-15

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Oliver, Robert Shaw, 1847-1935

President Roosevelt directs Acting Secretary of War Oliver to commute the sentence of a soldier. Given the circumstances that the soldier’s wife was pregnant and was on the point of having her baby, Roosevelt feels that while the soldier committed a fault, the sentence as was given is excessive.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-24

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Oliver, Robert Shaw, 1847-1935

President Roosevelt sends Acting Secretary of War Oliver a memorandum about coffee, and states he wants preference given to Puerto Rican and Hawaiian coffee when possible.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-02

President Roosevelt informs Acting Secretary of War Oliver he would like to appoint Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian and a son of Harry Stillwell Edwards to the United States Military Academy. The president asks Oliver to correspond with John Charles Woodward and Edwards about these appointments.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-01

President Roosevelt explains to Acting Secretary of War Oliver that because the two chaplain vacancies in the Army were filled by Catholic chaplains, their replacements should be similarly Catholic, not members of the Dutch Reformed Church. Roosevelt has asked Cardinal James Gibbons for recommendations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-30

President Roosevelt would like for Second Lieutenant James P. Barney of the 4th Cavalry to be promoted instead of retired. Roosevelt has been told Barney’s “physical disability” is temporary, but understands if he is found to be unable to serve “he will have to go.” Roosevelt simply wants to give him a chance.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-27

President Roosevelt would like Acting Secretary of War Shaw to read Lieutenant George Thornton Emmons’s report on the case of the Copper River Indians. Roosevelt would like the War Department’s help in preventing them from starving.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-03

President Roosevelt asks Acting Secretary Oliver to take up the case of Ernest Sanger. Sanger was a Rough Rider and Roosevelt wonders if he can be appointed as an officer in charge of prisoners of war.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-11

President Roosevelt would like Post Quartermaster Sargent Stocker appointed to an open position in a military branch.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-10

President Roosevelt thanks Robert Oliver for the note of sympathy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-25

President Roosevelt asks Acting Secretary of War Oliver to issue orders that Granville Fortescue should be detailed to the White House this winter, now that John Procter has gone to the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-17

President Roosevelt invites newly appointed Assistant Secretary of War General Oliver to lunch after his appointment with Secretary of War Elihu Root.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-20

In consultation with Secretary of War Elihu Root, President Roosevelt has decided that the War Department can wait until September 1 for General Oliver to take up the position as Assistant Secretary of War. Roosevelt would like Oliver to meet with Root and Assistant Secretary of War William Cary Sanger in August to get a feeling for the department and Root’s ideas.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-13

The War Department would like General Oliver, the incoming Assistant Secretary of War, to familiarize himself with the work of the department before Secretary of War Elihu Root travels to Europe as a member of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. President Roosevelt asks Oliver when he can start.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-09

President Roosevelt would like General Oliver to “take hold as early as possible” and will ask Assistant Secretary Sanger when he is leaving.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-02