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Thomas Goode Jones will be appointed as United States district judge in Montgomery, Alabama. President Roosevelt would like to discuss various matters with Senator Morgan.
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1901-10-05
A list of all men of color appointed to or continued in office by President Roosevelt, complete with the office and date.
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1907-01
Thomas Goode Jones would like William Loeb to give President Roosevelt a letter from him. He states that the matter is not urgent and Roosevelt could read it whenever he has a free moment.
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1905-02-04
Newspaper article on the Democratic nomination race and the reappointment of Leander J. Bryan to the United States Marshal’s office by President Roosevelt.
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1905-11-07
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.
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1912-08-05
President Roosevelt thanks Judge Jones for his help during his trip through the South. He wishes Jones could have been present when he spoke about lynching in Arkansas.
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1905-11-01
President Roosevelt calls Judge Jones “a good fellow” and looks forward to receiving and reading The Virginia Cousins and learning more about Jones’s ancestry. Although Roosevelt would like to stay longer than two hours in Montgomery, Alabama, he is unable to do so.
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1905-06-12
President Roosevelt thanks Senator William P. Frye for forwarding the letter from Mr. Stratton, and tells him that he has taken immediate action to begin inquiries into the two postmasters mentioned in the letter. Roosevelt mentions that he has received protests regarding the conduct of William Frye Tebbetts in Montgomery. Roosevelt rates the opinion of Judge Jones about Mr. Thompson more highly than Mr. Stratton’s opinion. He is thinking of following Mr. Stratton’s suggestion to send Colonel Mosby to investigate the conditions in Alabama.
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1905-01-10
Vice President Roosevelt thanks Annie Booth McKinney for the invitation, but he is unable to add another stop to his trip to the South.
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1901-09-07
Vice President Roosevelt will not be able to reach Montgomery, Alabama, at the time suggested by Alex Rice. He is confident that he will stop in Montgomery, but not until November.
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1901-08-27
Booker T. Washington updates William Loeb on matters in Alabama, including several upcoming meetings he has scheduled, as well as the fact that the state committee in Birmingham, Alabama, endorsed President Roosevelt and Secretary of War William H. Taft.
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1908-02-22
After speaking with President Roosevelt about the American merchant marine, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw thought Roosevelt might want a copy of his speech on the subject, which he has given in many places in both the South and the North. Shaw calls it a “universally popular” subject that is getting a lot of attention.
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1906-10-22
Judge Jones feels he must explain himself to President Roosevelt, though his attempts may verge on tattling. Jones feels that Joseph O. Thompson’s recent letter was quite unnecessary and created the intention of blaming Jones for wrongdoing. Jones talked with Thompson and told him that if Marshal Leander J. Bryan denied the charges put before him, that he would denounce him quickly. Wanting more information, Thompson told Jones that Captain O’Brien knew Bryan and could speak to the charges, but O’Brien will not talk with Jones. Jones goes on to describe the suspect activities of Thompson and Charles H. Scott, and hopes that Roosevelt will believe that he has not personally benefited from appointing anyone.
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1905-11-16
Charles H. Scott protests against the appointment of Leander J. Bryan as marshal, even if Bryan has the backing of Judge Thomas G. Jones.
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1905-11-15
Booker T. Washington sends William Loeb editorials from the Montgomery Daily Advertiser and the Huston Post about President Roosevelt’s recent speech.
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1905-02-18
Federal referees in Alabama are protesting the nomination of Leander J. Bryan for U.S. Marshal, in part to damage the prestige of Judge Thomas Goode Jones, who currently has the favor of the national administration.
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1905-11-16
Judge Jones assures President Roosevelt that he was not aware of the extent of the allegations of immorality against Leander J. Bryan when he recommended that Roosevelt reappoint him U.S. Marshal. Jones now believes that Bryan should not be reappointed and has instructed him to withdraw his application.
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1905-11-16
Judge Jones recommends President Roosevelt replace Leander J. Bryan with James H. Judkins, current Assistant U.S. District Attorney, as U.S. Marshal.
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1905-11-16
Booker T. Washington encloses an editorial from the Montgomery Daily Evening Times that shows that the sensible white people of the South can not be deceived by the foolish cry of Negro social equality.
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1903-11-07
Samuel Phillips Verner praises Theodore Roosevelt for his selection of Thomas Goode Jones as a Federal Judge in Alabama. He approves of Jones’ decisions in the peonage cases in Montgomery.
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1903-07-14