Hoxsey, Arch, 1884-1910

While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party’s campaign on October 11, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt is invited to fly in a biplane with Archibald Hoxsey as pilot. Accompanied by Herbert S. Hadley, Governor of Missouri, and two men who appear to be Henry W. Kiel, Mayor of St. Louis, and Sheriff Louis Nolte, Roosevelt arrives in a motorcade at Kinloch Aviation Field. A man, who appears to be Hoxsey, inspects the plane. Medium shot of Roosevelt as he enters the passenger seat of the biplane; long shot of plane flying. Roosevelt alights from the plane, joins the waiting crowd, enters an automobile, and drives away in a motorcade. Roosevelt was the first president to experience flight.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt preparing to take flight with Archibald Hoxsey on October 11, 1910, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Collection

Dickinson State University

Creation Date

1910-10-11

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt flying with Archibald Hoxsey on October 11, 1910, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Collection

Dickinson State University

Creation Date

1910-10-11

Creator(s)

Unknown

Thomas P. Jackson, a representative of the Wright Company, tells Theodore Roosevelt that the airplane ride he took with the recently-deceased Arch Hoxsey was the highlight of Hoxsey’s life, and that he frequently spoke proudly of it. Jackson’s business card is appended to the top of the letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-10

Creator(s)

Jackson, Thomas P.

Philip K. Mindil informs Theodore Roosevelt the film of his airplane flight will be shown at William J. Gane’s Manhattan Theatre. Gane invites Roosevelt and company to view the film at the theatre or elsewhere. Duplicate copies of the letter were sent to Sagamore Hill and Roosevelt’s office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-04

Creator(s)

Mindil, Philip K. (Philip Kearny), -1919

Representative Arthur L. Bates told Robert E. Peary he was going to write Theodore Roosevelt about congressional recognition for Peary’s discovery of the North Pole. Bates suggested Peary write Roosevelt since he referenced him in his eulogy of aviator Arch Hoxsey.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-05

Creator(s)

Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920

Art Koch reveals the subject and context of the fourth “TR-era image” which shows Moore’s Building in Oyster Bay, New York, which served as summer offices for President Theodore Roosevelt from 1903 to 1908. The fifth image in the series shows Roosevelt sitting next to a pilot in an early biplane.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1902

Creator(s)

Koch, Art

Art Koch reveals the subject and context of the fifth “TR-era image” which shows Theodore Roosevelt sitting in a biplane next to its pilot, Arch Hoxsey, in 1910. Roosevelt went on a four minute flight in what is considered the first ride by a United States president on an airplane. Koch introduces the sixth image in the series which features a stereoscope card with a photograph of a ship tied up at a dock.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1910-10-11

Creator(s)

Koch, Art

Tweed Roosevelt lists 100 firsts by Theodore Roosevelt, ranging from the more widely known at number one, that Roosevelt was the first American to win a Nobel Prize, to the obscure at number 100, that Roosevelt was the first American president to have a wife sail on a battleship. In addition to a photograph of the author, the column features ten photographs of Roosevelt, some of which depict his firsts, from riding in a car to flying in an airplane. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Tweed

The front cover of the Summer, 1991 issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal features a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt preparing for a ride on an early model airplane in 1910 while the back cover shows Roosevelt embracing his friend James Cardinal Gibbons at a Liberty Loan rally in Baltimore, Maryland in 1918.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1918

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

This edition of “News and Notes” has five sections. Brief histories of the three ships and one submarine that have carried the name of Theodore Roosevelt are provided in “The Aircraft Carrier Theodore Roosevelt.” This section also highlights the five different Roosevelts who have served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. “TR Exhibit at the LBJ Library in Texas” revisits the Theodore exhibit at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. It lists fourteen of the archives, museums, and historic sites that lent items to the exhibit, and it promotes the sale of the exhibit catalogue and poster.

“Meadowcroft” covers a July 1903 visit by Roosevelt to the home of his cousin John Ellis Roosevelt on the south shore of Long Island. It also relates the events surrounding “Theodore Roosevelt Day at Meadowcroft” on July 28, 1984, which celebrated and recreated President Roosevelt’s visit. “Rough Riders Museum in New Mexico” examines why there is a museum dedicated to the Rough Riders in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It looks at the state’s contributions to the regiment and highlights some of the reunions held in Las Vegas.

The final and untitled section notes events involving the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and its work: the conferring of a TRA award to a high school student, a radio interview of the TRA’s Executive Director John A. Gable, and a listing of programs at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace and Sagamore Hill National Historic Sites.

A photograph of President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the graves of General Theodore Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt is found on the first page of “News and Notes.” Four photographs of the Paul Manship statue of President Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C. and an illustration of Mount Rushmore National Memorial accompany the text.

Even though Theodore Roosevelt had previously expressed doubts about riding in an airplane, “he could not refuse the challenge of Aviator [Arch] Hoxsey at St. Louis,” and rode in a plane for three and a half minutes. The article praises Roosevelt’s courage.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-04

Creator(s)

Unknown

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-03-23

Creator(s)

Unknown

Publication Date

2025-07-31

Language

English

John Campbell Greenway feels that he has not seen Theodore Roosevelt in a long time and is determined to meet the next time he is on the East Coast. He visited Robert Harry Munro Ferguson and Isabella Ferguson recently. Ferguson seemed in general good health but he is not interested in seeing many people. Greenway expects the Democrats to win the next election and then Roosevelt to lead the progressive Republicans to victory in four years.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1911-10-11

Creator(s)

Greenway, John Campbell, 1872-1926