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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-11-15
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Thompson, Joseph O. (Joseph Oswalt), 1869-1933
English
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1913-04-29
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Thompson, Joseph O. (Joseph Oswalt), 1869-1933
English
H. T. Nations recommends Judge Walker be made Collector of the Port in Mobile, Alabama, and is fervently against the appointment of James Thomas Heflin to that position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-13
Theodore Roosevelt remarks that Joseph O. Thompson would not expect him to comment on that statement and tells him to come visit if he is in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-19
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary acknowledges Joseph O. Thompson’s letter and informs him that Roosevelt wants to visit with him before leaving Birmingham, Alabama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-06
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-04
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Thompson, Joseph O. (Joseph Oswalt), 1869-1933
English
Theodore Roosevelt thinks it is wise to support John Milliken Parker in Louisiana. Roosevelt suggests that Joseph O. Thompson keep in touch with Parker, as well as Cecil Andrew Lyon and Pearl Wight.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-11-12
President Roosevelt tells Collector of Internal Revenue Joseph O. Thompson the members he has been told comprise the State Committee of Alabama. The president believes the list shows “a very undesirable state of affairs,” and is of the opinion that there should be “no such unhealthy predominance of office holders.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-24
President Roosevelt encloses his photograph for Josephine Thompson and is glad that they are against “race suicide.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-09
Joseph O. Thompson has nominated Addison Wimbs as his deputy revenue collector, but President Roosevelt has been informed that Wimbs is a “man of bad character.” Roosevelt asks Thompson to run his office “on the highest plane of efficiency and good conduct.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-02
Gifford Pinchot writes to Joseph O. Thompson about the direction the country must take after World War I: the creation of a progressive platform, a victorious election, and progressive laws passed. Pinchot believes the election of 1920 is second in importance only to the peace treaty itself, and he desires a platform that can “secure to our people the full fruits of their great war sacrifice.” If the “Old Guard” forms the platform, they will not be successful; “the Republican party cannot win in 1920 unless it is genuinely progressive.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-12-19
Charles H. Scott is surprised at hearing that Joseph O. Thompson recommended the reappointment of Leander J. Bryan to the United States Marshal’s office, because both he and Thompson know of Bryan’s disreputable character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-03