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Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus will lay Thomas G. Bush’s suggestion of Hugh Henry Hanna as a member of the proposed Industrial Peace Commission before the trustees. Straus conferred with Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller about convening a meeting of the trustees this week.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-25
Seth Low agrees to President Roosevelt’s arrangements to go over the plan with Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus and John Mitchell. He was also impressed by a man he met named Thomas G. Bush from Alabama, and recommends him to be a trustee of Roosevelt’s fund.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-24
President Roosevelt informs Belle Alston Webb Tyler that the information he has received has been strongly in favor of judge Oscar R. Hundley. Roosevelt has been over all the charges raised against him, and believes that Hundley is all right. He has sent in Hundley’s nomination to the Senate, and would need to see proof of genuine misconduct before he would withdraw it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-31
President Roosevelt is puzzled by Edgar Gardner Murphy’s objections to Thomas G. Bush’s appointment to Peace Commissioner.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-06
T. G. Bush will be in New York next week and would like to know if Theodore Roosevelt will be available to call then. Bush says his father, Thomas G. Bush, was a great admirer of Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-03
In this article, Thomas G. Bush of Alabama discusses his thoughts on President Roosevelt, economic progress in the South, and race relations. Bush notes Roosevelt has appointed Republicans and Democrats for postmaster positions in the South and that the president is not in favor of social equality to African Americans. Additionally, Bush mentions Roosevelt’s hope that business development will grow in the South by the end of his term so that it will be an “equal sharer in the prosperity of the whole country.” Finally, Roosevelt believes the Panama Canal will help open up trading between the South and Asian countries.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-23
A number of Alabama politicians and their backgrounds and positions on key issues are summarized.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-25