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President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Bonaparte if the Department of Justice has a record of Edward L. Medler. If the judge position in New Mexico is created, Medler has been recommended to fill it.
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1909-02-07
President Roosevelt has received strong recommendations to nominate H. F. Seawell as the district judge for Eastern North Carolina and asks Edwin Anderson Alderman if he knows Seawell.
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1909-01-11
President Roosevelt asks Judge Hoke for his opinion on H. F. Seawell, whom he may nominate as judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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1909-01-11
President Roosevelt thanks Solicitor General Hoyt for the high quality of his service during Roosevelt’s administration. If there had been a chance to put a judge from New York or Pennsylvania on the Supreme Court during Roosevelt’s tenure, he would have wished to appoint Hoyt.
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1909-01-06
President Roosevelt thanks Judge Jones for the medal of Stonewall Jackson, and says that he appreciates it deeply. He was glad to have the opportunity to appoint Jones as a United States District Judge, and says that Jones does not owe him anything for the position, which he greatly deserves.
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1908-12-29
President Roosevelt promises Alexander Jeffrey McKelway that he will ask that Judge Noah B. Feagin be invited to the conference as well. Roosevelt thanks McKelway for offering his opinions on candidates to be appointed to a judgeship. While Roosevelt has some reservations about Judge Robert M. Douglas’s age, he promises to look up Judge T. T. Hicks. He also appreciated McKelway’s views regarding Spencer B. Adams and Harry Skinner. Roosevelt is pleased by McKelway’s words about the development of the Republican Party in the South.
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1908-12-30
President Roosevelt agrees that the matter that Thomas G. Bush wrote to him about “has been threshed out.” As far as Roosevelt knows, Judge Oscar R. Hundley’s course has been admirable, and he does not pay any attention to protests against him, and trusts that the Senate will not either.
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1908-12-31
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.
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1908-12-31
President Roosevelt tells Mississippi Chief Justice Whitfield that he would be pleased to show the letter to president-elect William H. Taft, and comments on Whitfield’s courage, broadmindedness, and understanding of the Constitution as a living document. If a vacancy had occurred in the federal courts in Mississippi during Roosevelt’s presidency, he would have been pleased to appoint Whitfield. Speaking about Judge Andrew P. McCormick, Roosevelt believes that if he retired, he would have to be replaced with another Texan, given the amount of work done in Texas.
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1908-12-26
President Roosevelt thanks Judge Douglas for the letter. While Roosevelt admires Douglas’s career, he would not wish to appoint a fifty-nine year old man to a position if it can be avoided. Roosevelt would like to see Douglas if he is in Washington, D.C. soon.
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1908-12-29
President Roosevelt informs the War Department that he has recently spoken with President-Elect William H. Taft about the appointment of judges in Panama, and directs the War Department to appoint Wesley M. Owen to the bench there.
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1908-12-16
President Roosevelt feels that Judge Royal Arch Gunnison should be reappointed, but asks if Attorney General Bonaparte or the Department of Justice possess information that would suggest otherwise. Roosevelt acknowledges that Gunnison can be slow, but believes that he is nevertheless an honest judge.
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1908-12-03
President Roosevelt is sorry to hear that Judge Tracey is leaving the Philippines, and thanks him for his service there. He will speak to Secretary of War Luke E. Wright about getting the kind of successor that Tracey wants.
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1908-11-13
With a series of excerpts from relevant letters, President Roosevelt strongly refutes allegations from anonymous sources quoted by William Dudley Foulke. These sources allege that Roosevelt had planned to nominate John K. Beach to succeed William K. Townsend on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, but then withdrew his promise to appoint Beach in favor of Walter Chadwick Noyes, in order to secure a delegation favorable to William H. Taft to the Republican National Convention.
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1908-08-06
President Roosevelt agrees with Charles A. Moore that Somerville P. Tuck would make a good replacement for George Sherman Batcheller on the International Court of Appeals at Cairo, Egypt.
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1908-08-06
President Roosevelt agrees with Emily Tyler Carow that Somerville P. Tuck is a good judge and deserves to be promoted, and has advised the Egyptian government as such. Roosevelt details some of his plans for his upcoming African safari, and asks if it would be possible to meet in Naples. Roosevelt describes a camping trip he took with “all of the younger children.” Roosevelt believes William H. Taft will be elected president.
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1908-07-24
Emily Tyler Carow was glad to see that the Republican National Convention followed President Roosevelt’s wishes and nominated William H. Taft as the Republican candidate for president. She has recently received a letter from Emily Rosalie Snowden Marshall Tuck, who is hopeful that her husband, Judge Somerville P. Tuck, could be promoted to a position on the International Court of Appeals in Egypt, which has recently been left open by the death of Judge George Sherman Batcheller. Carow has a high respect for the whole Tuck family, and feels that Judge Tuck has done his job well. She hopes that Roosevelt will feel similarly and endorse Tuck.
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1908-07-12
President Roosevelt believes that he should not appoint any more people from New York at the moment. Roosevelt already has a long list of people from New York he would like to appoint, but believes that if he can get someone just as good from another state, he should appoint that person.
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1908-07-13
President Roosevelt tells Attorney General Bonaparte that he is sorry to hear about John Carter Rose, and advises him to follow the course that he set out to find another candidate for the position, and to act similarly in finding a person for the Indian Territory. In a postscript, Roosevelt suggests Bonaparte consider Wade H. Ellis for the position, and comments about the choice of the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, where he would prefer Frank B. Kellogg to Frank H. Hitchcock.
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1908-06-30
President Roosevelt reappointed Judge Sater “as a matter of course,” because he has been a “first-class judge.” He believes that there is no excuse for the Senate’s failure to confirm him.
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1908-06-03