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Solomon W. Seeman and Clarence E. Deal ask Secretary of the Interior Garfield to delay Frank C. Bramwell’s appointment as registrar of the land office at La Grande, Oregon, and promise explanatory materials will follow.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-19
Deal, Clarence E., 1870-1930; Seeman, Solomon W. (Solomon William), 1863-1949
Solomon W. Seeman and Clarence E. Deal of the local Minister’s Union ask Secretary of the Interior Garfield not to nominate Frank C. Bramwell for the position of register of the land office at La Grande, Oregon, because of his ties to Mormonism.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-19
Deal, Clarence E., 1870-1930; Seeman, Solomon W. (Solomon William), 1863-1949
Methodist minister James D. Gillilan believes that political appointments have been influenced by a powerful official in the Mormon Church. He informs Secretary of the Interior Garfield that the appointee for the La Grande, Oregon land office, Franklin C. Bramwell, is the son of the president of the Mormon Church “‘state,'” and therefore a “stick in the nostrils of the law abiding element.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-12