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Ben Daniels’s appointment as United States Marshal for Arizona has been confirmed. President Roosevelt instructs Daniels to guard against any behavior that could be misconstrued as unprofessional.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-02-01
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb acknowledges Mary Louise Hanlon Brodie’s New Year’s greeting and returns the greetings to Brodie and her husband.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-08
President Roosevelt questions three policies regarding land use on a forest reserve and requests that investigations be made into those policies and a separate allegation of discrimination.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-06
George LeRoy Brown sends Theodore Roosevelt the results of last year’s work. He enjoys reading, especially The Outlook. Colonel Alexander O. Brodie’s son, Alexander O. “Sandy” Brodie, is one of Brown’s cadets and often joins him on his daily rides. His wife, Mary W. Brown, also admires The Outlook and Lyman Abbott.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-28
Richard De Kuhn describes an old book, Junius, which he can present to Theodore Roosevelt if interested. While Kuhn has not met Roosevelt, his daughter, Sylvia Frances Bardshar, has. Roosevelt appointed her husband, Henry P. Bardshar, as the Internal Revenue Collector of New Mexico and Arizona.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-17
A brief itinerary of events planned for Theodore Roosevelt’s stop in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08
Redfield Proctor believes that Theodore Roosevelt is free from favoritism. Roosevelt has never agreed to a single request regarding the Army that Proctor has made. Proctor has also never asked for an Army appointment because the person was from Vermont, but due to their qualifications.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-20
Senator Proctor is concerned that none of the three Vermont officers he has recommended have been promoted. Proctor outlines the three cases: Colonel Miller, Colonel Stephen Perry Jocelyn, and Major Eugene Frederick Ladd, and asks Roosevelt to see things from his point of view. Proctor believes that his acquaintance with the army and his support of Elihu Root entitles him to “a little consideration.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-06
Secretary of War Taft sends President Roosevelt a memorandum from Surgeon General Robert M. O’Reilly regarding the case of Army surgeon Aaron H. Appel, and personally opines that “Major Appel is a man whose presence in the Army is a detriment to it. He has been more trouble than all the other Surgeons in the Army put together.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-18
Seven books receive scrutiny in the “Reviews” section, including two biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, specialized studies of the White House and Memorial Day, a collection of Roosevelt’s writings, a look at the Rough Riders of Arizona, and a study of turn of the twentieth-century American foreign policy. John A. Gable notes that Stacey A. Cordery’s biography of Roosevelt serves as a comprehensive historiographical study as it draws on thirty years of Roosevelt scholarship in its quotes and analysis. Gable also offers thoughts on Kathleen Dalton’s biography of Roosevelt, and he provides excerpts from five other reviews of the work that highlight Dalton’s coverage of the role of women in Roosevelt’s life and that affirm Roosevelt as a moderate radical. Of Brian Thomsen’s collection of Roosevelt’s writings, The Man in the Arena, Gable says: “there is no reason to buy this book.”
Gable also reviews Marty F. Feess’s Theodore Roosevelt’s Arizona Boys which examines the life of the Arizona Rough Riders after the Spanish-American War and the many actions taken by their Colonel to help them succeed in their post-war lives. Henry J. Hendrix faults Warren Zimmermann’s First Great Triumph for injecting present day views into his analysis of the makers of foreign policy in Roosevelt’s presidency. Hendrix also examines A History of Memorial Day which traces the transformation of the holiday from a solemn occasion to a day of recreation. Jeremy M. Murphy highlights Gable’s chapter on the Roosevelts in his review of The White House: Actors and Observers, and he also notes the work’s use of the photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston.
An illustration and a photograph of Roosevelt supplement the text.
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and Colonel Alexander O. Brodie in uniform, greeting each other and surrounded by horses.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-06-23
Photograph showing (front row, right to left): Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood and former Civil War Confederate General, Joseph Wheeler. (Back row, right to left): Chaplain Henry A. Brown, Major Alexander Oswald Brodie and Major George Dunn.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood, and Alexander O. Brodie sitting in front of camp tents.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898
President Roosevelt received Senator Lodge’s letter and has already sent a letter to McDonald, likely referring to William Jesse McDonald. He also encloses his letter to Secretary of War Elihu Root. He informs Lodge that Governor Brodie of Arizona appointed Ben Daniels as the warden of the Arizona Penitentiary, both men former Rough Riders. When Roosevelt told John Hay of that fact, Hay responded, “Set a Rough Rider to catch a thief!”
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-06-04
The Republican territorial convention in Arizona has endorsed President Roosevelt’s administration and the delegates to the national convention will be led by Governor Brodie, who Edward Kent says is well-loved in Arizona.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-09
Resolutions passed by the Republican Party of the Territory of Arizona. The resolutions support President Roosevelt’s nomination at the Republican National Convention, endorse Governor Brodie as governor of Arizona, and seek statehood for the territory.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-12
John Campbell Greenway describes his experiences enlisting for and serving in the Spanish-American War, including the events leading to the Battle of San Juan Hill.
1899-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood leading a parade formation of the Rough Riders.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1898
D. H. Pinney does not plan to write President Roosevelt about affairs in Arizona, but he will speak for President Roosevelt at the upcoming convention and elsewhere. He greatly admires Roosevelt’s work for the common man and trusts that his administration will be endorsed at the polls.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-03
George L. Bugbee would like the removal of Mr. Crocker, the consular agent, delayed until all of the complaints from the merchants have been collected and Bugbee’s letter has been received.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-26