Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

Theodore Roosevelt sends Gifford Pinchot a copy of the letter he sent to Peckham. Roosevelt encourages Pinchot to address the Kansas Progressives on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Roosevelt also responds to a newly received letter from Pinchot addressing controversy within the Progressive Party. Roosevelt concludes with the belief that Gifford and Amos Pinchot should try and raise subscriptions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-01-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

Theodore Roosevelt will try to get The Outlook to deal with that matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-01-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

Theodore Roosevelt hopes that his party will run Victor Murdock for Speaker. Roosevelt also hopes the “near-Progressives” will join with them.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-03-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

Theodore Roosevelt would like Gifford Pinchot to write a few lines about the Roosevelt Dam. Roosevelt disagrees with Kent supporting Mann for Speaker. Business in Congress has shown Roosevelt that their supporters want to have a separate ticket.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-03-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

Theodore Roosevelt introduces Oliver Frost Cutts, a Harvard football player, to Gifford Pinchot. Cutts is interested in the Y.M.C.A. work. Roosevelt would also like Cutts to meet Gill.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-09-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

Theodore Roosevelt responds to letters from Gifford and Amos Pinchot advocating for the removal of George W. Perkins as a leader of the Progressive Party. He understood these letters as requesting for Perkins’s removal from the party and by extension businessmen similar to Perkins. Roosevelt disagrees with Pinchot’s view and believes that the big businessmen can have a role in the party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-12-21

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

Theodore Roosevelt requests that Gifford Pinchot provide a statement regarding Roosevelt’s “sobriety and temperance” for his lawyer in a libel suit, James H. Pound.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-12-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter and his reply. He requests that Gifford Pinchot provide the facts he has forgotten.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-12-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt appoints Gifford Pinchot to the Advisory Board on Fuels and Structural Materials as a representative of the National Conservation Commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-03-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt writes to inform Gifford Pinchot of the great respect and admiration he has for him. Roosevelt thanks Pinchot for his “very large part” of the achievement of Roosevelt’s administration.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-03-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt writes to Gifford Pinchot concerning Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield. Garfield has been an “invaluable public servant,” excelling in all positions to which Roosevelt appointed him. Roosevelt notes that Garfield has “sacrificed much” for the good work he has done, and it will not be easy for him to resume a profitable law practice.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-24

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt sends Gifford Pinchot a copy of the foreword he had intended to write. Roosevelt is grateful for what Pinchot said to Mott and McBee.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt hopes that Gifford Pinchot will represent the United States as a commissioner at the conference on the conservation of natural resources in North America. Roosevelt has also selected Secretary of State Robert Bacon and Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield to serve as commissioners.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-11

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt believes action should be taken soon but can wait if Gifford Pinchot thinks it necessary.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-24

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt writes to Gifford Pinchot to introduce James A. Drain, of the National Rifle Association of America. Elihu Root called Drain “the best man in the national guard.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt cannot speak at any meeting. He is being asked by many people and it would cause offense if he spoke at one but not at others.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt instructs Gifford Pinchot to refer to Walter Hines Page as “Walter H. Page of North Carolina” rather than as editor of World’s Work, New York.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Theodore Roosevelt suggests that Gifford Pinchot and members of the Country Life Commission meet with farmers from across the United States to discuss matters associated with rural living. It is imperative, says Roosevelt, that “the men who actually live on the soil should feel a sense of ownership in the Commission.” Roosevelt suggests a list of topics for these meetings to help the Commission ascertain the conditions of the open country.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt asks if Gifford Pinchot will write to Fairfield Osborn who is very anxious to talk over forestry matters.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt encloses a letter to Theodore E. Burton, Chairman of the Inland Waterways Commission, describing the “desirability” of continuing the commission. Roosevelt hopes that Gifford Pinchot will continue to serve on the commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-05