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The committee of the General Joseph A. Wheeler, Camp No. 2 informs Theodore Roosevelt he was unanimously voted to elect him an honorary member of the camp.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-21
Dell M. Potter and T. M. White of the Trans-Continental Good Roads Association of Arizona have invited delegates from multiple states to meet and organize the National Trans-Continental Good Roads Association. This association would build a transcontinental road through the delegates’ states. They hope Roosevelt will be the president as they believe he is the only man who can ensure success in their endeavor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-15
George G. Knowles, chairman of the American Universities Club of London, sends Theodore Roosevelt a list of the members of the club, and details the development of the organization. In order to help the club grow further, Knowles sends Roosevelt, along with the other foundation members, booklets, envelopes, and forms to suggest membership in the club to friends or classmates.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-08
Having heard of Theodore Roosevelt’s wish to become a higher-level Mason, Henry P. Stevens sends him several documents relating to the matter which may be of interest to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-25
William A. Prendergast informs Theodore Roosevelt that the Irish-American Historical Society would like to give Roosevelt an honorary membership, and that he was asked by Patrick H. McGowan to arrange a time when McGowan might be able to discuss the matter with Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-23
Gustav Bassler sends Theodore Roosevelt information about a new organization he is promoting and hopes he will join.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-10
J. Franklin Jameson, Acting Secretary of the American Historical Association, informs Theodore Roosevelt that at a recently held meeting of the association he was elected First Vice-President of the organization for 1911.
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1911-01-05
George Batten of the Association of New Jersey Sportsmen asks Theodore Roosevelt, an honorary member, to help get President William H. Taft as an honorary member.
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1910-12-17
Curtis Guild informs Theodore Roosevelt of the Acacia of Harvard University wishes to make him an honorary member. He assures the members are “nice, clean fellows” with “no ulterior motive” beyond promoting Freemasonry.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-12
Ambassador Jusserand sends Theodore Roosevelt Christmas wishes and hopes for his continued safety. He informs Roosevelt of his election to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on his own merits, with no opposing votes. Jusserand shares an incident of a mother cat saving her kitten from a caged tiger. Roosevelt’s letter was delightful and complemented his articles in Scribner’s Magazine, which everyone follows with interest. He does not have much to comment on regarding internal politics other than that he deplores the quarrel between Gifford Pinchot and Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger. Jusserand updates Roosevelt on several of their friends. Ambassador to France Robert Bacon was recently injured in a fall from his horse before leaving for his assignment. A letter “full of pleasant chattering” from Justice Alford Cooley hints at a possible improvement in health. Secretary of the Navy George von Lengerke Meyer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop are trying to capture Jose Santos Zelaya in Nicaragua. While Henry Cabot Lodge and Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge are in good physical health, they still mourn for their son George “Bay” Cabot Lodge, especially on Christmas. Jusserand includes a newspaper clipping on Roosevelt’s election to the Academy and part of a political cartoon featuring Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-12-25
The Mayors’ National Society would like to name Theodore Roosevelt as an honorary member because they mistakenly believe that he was once mayor of New York City.
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1909-11-11
On behalf of the Shelby County Deer Hunters’ Association in Ohio, John E. Bush and Hudson Gartley extend honorary membership to President Roosevelt. Bush and Gartley also send good wishes for Roosevelt’s African safari.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-22
A certificate certifying that President Roosevelt is an Honorary Life Member of the Kansas City Zoological Society signed by W. V. Lippincott, president, H. R. Walmsley, secretary, and G. W. Davies, secretary.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-26
Mildred A. Jenkins notifies President Roosevelt on behalf of the Chicago Historical Society that he has been unanimously elected to be an honorary member.
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1908-12-14
William G. Stanard confirms receipt of the letter William Loeb had sent to Robert A. Lancaster informing him that, in light of his upcoming retirement from office, President Roosevelt is resigning from the Virginia Historical Society. Stanard will comply with Roosevelt’s request to remove his name from the membership list, but says that the organization regrets the loss of him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-01
Abraham S. Moyer of the Allentown Flag Day Association informs President Roosevelt he has been unanimously elected an honorary member of that body.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-23
George Haven Putnam relays what he has found out about “The Lincoln Fellowship” to President Roosevelt, and advises him that it would not be desirable to accept honorary membership. The fellowship seems to have been formed for the purpose of selling an edition of the works of Abraham Lincoln.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-29
Francis Dashwood Tandy, secretary of the Lincoln Fellowship, notifies President Roosevelt that he has been selected as an honorary member of the organization. He encloses a leaflet, which explains the purposes of the organization, and has mailed Roosevelt’s certificate of membership under separate cover.
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1908-02-26
President Roosevelt was unanimously named an honorary member of the German American Historical Society at their annual meeting. Society president Albert Bernheim encloses a diploma of honorary membership.
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1908-01-24
Ernest Harold Baynes asks President Roosevelt to support the American Bison Society in its effort to save the American Bison from extinction.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-01