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Charles Krumm has been active in Republican politics for forty years and believes he is entitled to a position. He requests Vice President Roosevelt endorse his application to the navy yard or the Board of Immigration of New York.
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1901-08-26
Henry Franklin Auten recommends John W. Casteel of the Census Bureau and encloses a letter of recommendation from Powell Clayton. Auten requests that Vice President Roosevelt say a word on Casteel’s behalf to Director Merriam.
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1901-08-27
M. A. Lesser sends greetings from the Pan-American Exposition and reviews the recommendations he has received for a consular appointment.
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1901-08-27
Fred W. Bugbee thanks Vice President Roosevelt for the letter of recommendation. However, the letter arrived too late to put before the examining board. Bugbee lacks math skills and is having trouble on that part of the examination. Senator Joseph Ralph Burton provided him with a letter for Secretary of War Root, and he requests further assistance from Roosevelt.
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1901-08-28
Samuel R. MacLean hopes that Vice President Roosevelt’s son will be returned to health. MacLean is seeking appointment as the United States comptroller and requests Roosevelt’s help.
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1901-08-28
Allan L. Briggs, a veteran who served in Cuba and the Philippines, requests Vice President Roosevelt’s help with being commissioned a first lieutenant when he enters the regular army.
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1901-08-29
Griffin Tolman has applied to be the register of the land office in Montgomery, Alabama, and requests Vice President Roosevelt’s help.
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1901-08-29
Henry G. Hammon is hoping to be appointed to a permanent position and requests Vice President Roosevelt’s help.
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1901-08-23
Acting Secretary of War Sanger has received Martin Heermance’s letter recommending the appointment of Alexander Dallas Bache Smead as an officer in the Puerto Rico regiment. Sanger responded to Heermance that Smead is eligible for an appointment as a company, regimental, or battalion staff officer. However, there are only a few vacancies for second lieutenants and, due to Smead’s age, he is unlikely to be interested in such an appointment.
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1901-08-23
R. H. Langford lists the many Senators and other prominent figures who support his receiving a “lucrative appointment” and asks Vice President Roosevelt’s help. He would like Roosevelt to write a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock and send him a copy.
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1901-08-24
Mrs. Morse requests Vice President Roosevelt’s help acquiring a position in a courthouse.
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1901-08-25
Commissioner Dewitt C. Middleton of New York informs Gifford Pinchot that Governor Benjamin Odell has approved the Annual Supply Bill which contains $8500 to be paid to the Division of Forestry for work conducted in Hamilton County, New York. In recognition of the assistance given by Assemblyman Jothan Powers Allds, Middleton requests that Pinchot employ Allds’ friend as a laborer.
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1901-05-07
Gifford Pinchot sends Vice President Roosevelt a copy of D. C. Middleton’s letter as well as Pinchot’s reply. Pinchot will appoint the friend of Assemblyman Allds on Middleton’s recommendation, but will give strict instructions to discharge him if he is found to be incompetent.
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1901-05-11
Gifford Pinchot is pleased that Governor Benjamin B. Odell has approved the $8500 for the Division of Forestry. Pinchot will appoint an unnamed man based on D. C. Middleton’s recommendation, but the man must maintain satisfactory work performance. Pinchot is glad that Middleton was pleased with the report on Township 40 and will be happy to distribute to any names that Middleton forwards to him.
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1901-05-11
Representative Cockran believes that Thomas B. Connery would be an excellent selection for paymaster in the Navy and urges Secretary Roosevelt to hire him.
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1898-03-07
T. B. Connery thanks Assistant Secretary Roosevelt for his letter and understands his reasons for not taking action on behalf of his son, who is seeking the appointment of paymaster in the Navy. However, Connery persists in explaining that William Bourke Cockran, who wrote a letter of recommendation for Connery’s son, had insisted that his letter would be seen by President William McKinley if Cockran sent the letter to Roosevelt. Thus, Connery asks if it would be acceptable for Roosevelt to forward Cockran’s letter to McKinley if he could do so “without comment,” so as not to appear to be seeking any favors.
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1898-03-14
Transcript of a letter in which J. C. Chance recommends Herbert M. Seymour, who has held the position of Chief of the Property Division of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency, as a man of “unusual ability in all clerical positions.”
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1893-02-04
Charles F. Ashley, the United States Indian Agent at Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency, recommends Herbert M. Seymour as a “young man of exemplary character and habits.”
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1893-08-16
Harwood Hall, Superintendent of the Indian Industrial School in Phoenix, Arizona, recommends Herbert M. Seymour as energetic, trustworthy, and efficient.
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1894-08-21
Leslie D. Davis, superintendent of the Flandreau Indian Industrial School in South Dakota, recommends Herbert M. Seymour as “a competent office man in every way.”
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1895-01-05