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Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou forwards correspondence with Colonel Robert James Lowry to William Loeb.
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1904-11-30
President Roosevelt writes Attorney General Bonaparte regarding the federal prison employment situation of Joseph L. Merrell. Merrell was the Sheriff of Carroll County, Georgia in 1901 when he stopped a white mob from lynching a black prisoner, and subsequently lost his reelection bid as a result. Georgia Representative Charles William Adamson brought the situation to Roosevelt’s attention. Roosevelt secured Merrell a position for “$1200 a year as custodian of the grounds of the Federal Prison at Atlanta,” and hopes to get him a raise if he has done well at his job.
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1906-12-17
Due to recent events, President Roosevelt will not be able to visit Atlanta, Georgia.
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1901-09-14
Due to the death of William McKinley, President Roosevelt will no longer be able to visit Atlanta, Georgia.
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1901-09-14
President Roosevelt will be unable to travel to Atlanta, Georgia, in November.
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1901-09-14
Hoke Smiths invites Theodore Roosevelt to give a speech for a monument unveiling in Atlanta on October 10th.
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1911-09-19
Editor Edward Hubert Butler directs President Roosevelt to read an editorial in the Atlanta Sunday Constitution, a Democratic newspaper.
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1907-03-10
Attorney General Bonaparte reports to President Roosevelt that Robert T. Devlin, U. S. Attorney, will be headed east as soon as he can get on a train. Bonaparte will not come to Washington until Wednesday, assuming Roosevelt does not need him before then to discuss United States v. Wickersham (201 U.S. 390) and the pay increase for the warden of the federal prison reservation in Atlanta, Georgia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-22
Unknown author accounts the details of the tax evasion trial against S. A. Darnell Jr., John A. Scott, and Sam Jefferson which took place in Cherokee County, Georgia, in 1902.
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1905-06-18
Clark Howell regrets that he will not be able to get to Washington, D.C. at this point in time to meet with President Roosevelt. Howell happened to run into ex-Governor Joseph Forney Johnston and they talked. Johnston did not discuss with Roosevelt all he wished to get through. Howell wishes Roosevelt to know that Montgomery would be a great place to mention the Jefferson Davis incident and that only a general reference would be needed.
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1905-06-08
President Roosevelt expresses his regret at being unable to attend the Negro Young People’s Christian and Educational Congress in Atlanta, Georgia, and sends his best wishes.
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1902-05-27
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit and describes his trip to Georgia and Florida. In Georgia Roosevelt visited the family home of his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. Roosevelt says he was well-received on the trip.
1905-10-22
President Roosevelt was pleased with Baker’s article on the Atlanta riots. He has been depressed over the Brownsville riots–not so much the attitude of the troops involved, but the response of the African American citizens in protecting the perpetrators. Had the troops and citizens involved been white, he does not believe they would have responded the same way. Roosevelt believes Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker has declared his support of the accused troops not because he questions their guilt, but either because he disagrees with Roosevelt on the control of corporations or because he wishes to secure the African American vote.
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1907-03-30
President Roosevelt thanks Booker T. Washington for the article from the Tribune and tells Washington he had no authority to send troops to Atlanta to aid during the riots.
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1906-10-08
President Roosevelt sends William H. Fleming several letters from Lyman Abbott. He is disheartened by the Atlanta tragedy’s effect upon what Fleming is “so patriotically and disinterestedly fighting.”
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1906-09-25
President Roosevelt tells Clark Howell that he was pleased to nominate the two women. He looks back with enjoyment on his recent visit to Atlanta.
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1905-12-20
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about how his trip through the southern states has gone thus far. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and a cousin, John S. Elliott, accompanied Roosevelt as far as Atlanta, and had a lovely time. They also visited the childhood home of Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. Roosevelt, now accompanied by John Campbell Greenway and John Avery McIlhenny, believes that the next part of the trip will be hard work going forward.
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1905-10-22
President Roosevelt informs John Temple Graves it will be challenging to get to Atlanta, Georgia, in the spring, but promises to visit before he leaves the presidency.
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1904-12-12
President Roosevelt informs Robert Foster Maddox he will be unable to visit Atlanta, Georgia, in May. If he does go on a trip at that time, it will be straight to Texas. Nevertheless, Roosevelt tells Maddox that he does plan to visit Atlanta and see Roswell, Georgia–the hometown of Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt–sometime during his presidency.
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1904-12-08
President Roosevelt tells Major Byrne that tax revision cannot be undertaken by people who think that the tariff is unconstitutional “robbery.” He acknowledges a shared belief with Byrne that there are “grave inequalities” in the tariff, but he will not make promises he is unable to keep. Roosevelt cares too much about the “color problem” issue to make it a partisan battle, and holds up Democrats and ex-Confederates as examples to this end.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-31