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Senator Platt urges President Roosevelt to appoint Eugene Ames to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis per the wishes of Ames’s father, Navy Medical Inspector Howard E. Ames.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-20
R. P. Schwerin asks that Edward Henry Harriman intercede for the appointment of Eugene Ames to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Eugene’s father, Dr. Howard E. Ames, is a Naval Medical Inspector with an honorable service record, including having served in the Greely Relief Expedition. Dr. Ames has acquired letters of recommendation for his son from many prominent military officers and greatly desires that his son be appointed to fill the last vacant position of naval midshipman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-15