Lawyers

Louis Bizzuoco thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his help and asks him to recommend a lawyer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-02-07

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-01-06

Creator(s)

Goodyear, Nellie Frances M. Johnes, -1908

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Richard P. Keif repeats his earlier request of Theodore Roosevelt to recommend an honest lawyer to help him, having not received a response to his previous letter. Keif placed his stock in the care of a broker who stole the stock and sold it before declaring bankruptcy. Keif does not believe America has honest laws that are followed and has been unable to file charges against the man who robbed him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-16

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt informs Elizabeth H. Becker that Theodore Roosevelt cannot help her as he does not know local circumstances. The secretary suggests Becker seek advice from a local lawyer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-14

Thomas F. Wright writes Robert S. Sharp asking for justice from the Post Office Department. Robert Stein was indicted for mail fraud and will be taken to Milwaukee. The employees of the Post Office Department say they cannot do anything for Wright, but Wright will not drop this and asks Sharp if the Post Office Department has done their duty.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-01

President Roosevelt thanks lawyer Frederick Trevor Hill for his letter, and praises his knowledge of both books and human nature.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-29

President Roosevelt invites William Allen White and a lawyer or lawyers representing Idaho Senator William Edgar Borah to meet him and Attorney Charles J. Bonaparte to Oyster Bay to discuss the senator’s case on August 9.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-30

President Roosevelt tells Idaho Governor Gooding that William Allen White, of the Emporia Gazette, made a similar suggestion to Gooding’s, for Roosevelt and Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to meet with Idaho Senator William Edgar Borah to discuss his case. Roosevelt does not think meeting Borah himself is a good idea, but would like to meet with his lawyers and the attorney general, if possible by August 9.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-30

President Roosevelt asks Idaho Governor Gooding to arrange a meeting between him, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, and Idaho Senator William Edgar Borah’s lawyers on August 9.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-30

President Roosevelt agrees with Attorney General Bonaparte in not interfering on behalf of Eugene A. Tucker, but that his lawyer should be punished. He believes that former Illinois Governor Richard Yates could be employed in the powder trust case. In a postscript, Roosevelt discusses how state and local governments use extralegal measures to combat non-governmental entities.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-27

President Roosevelt writes Senator Clark strongly recommending Alford Warriner Cooley for the position of Assistant Attorney General, and he encourages Clark to share this letter with the rest of the Judiciary Committee. Roosevelt writes that Cooley was suggested by Attorney General William H. Moody, and he is also favored by Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte. Roosevelt outlines Cooley’s education and career, which includes time as judge for various courts in New York and Washington DC; positions at the Department of Justice; and a member of New York City’s Corporation Counsel. Roosevelt concludes that he doesn’t believe it “would be possible to obtain a better man for the place.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-07

Cecil Spring Rice was glad to receive Theodore Roosevelt’s letter and to hear about Kermit Roosevelt. Rice enjoys seeing Roosevelt as a grandfather. He discusses the adjustment from the “strenuous life” to a “quiet” life. Rice also gives his opinion on contemporary politics in America and England.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-24

Attorney Otto Gresham sends President Roosevelt a letter from Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Gresham shares his views, as well as the views of various local lawyers and judges, on Landis’s actions and the proceedings of the Standard Oil case. Gresham also summarizes the conversations he had with Landis regarding the potential reversal of the case and the imposition of the fine. After discussing the history of law in Britain, Gresham concludes that the people support Roosevelt in his actions to control the corporations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-04

United States District Judge Jones expresses his interest in who will be appointed judge. He relays his knowledge and opinion of eleven aspirants. He details Hundley’s efforts to legislate discrimination against African Americans through a proposed amendment to bar African American schools from receiving equal funding to white schools. He explains the Democratic Party’s and Republican Party’s mistrust of Hundley due to his change in political parties.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-10

Ambassador Francis has read Mr. Conant’s letter to President Roosevelt and asks William Loeb to send to the Department of State for a number of his dispatches to be given to Roosevelt to read. The remainder of the letter examines the Austrian Phoenix Company’s San Francisco losses and the issues claimants are having dealing with the defaulting company. Francis explains he put pressure on the Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs “to the end that the Austrian Government should, unofficially, force” the company to pay its policy holders in California.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-18

A note concerning the U.S. district attorney in Chicago and whether or not a letter should be written.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-29

Profession, title, and address of Horace E. Deming.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905

President Roosevelt suggests Douglas Robinson have Blair present his case through Senator Knox of Pennsylvania. He then says that William Jennings Byran may not have ruined his political life. He ends with asking that Robinson and his wife come out for a visit. A note on the back states that Blair was a schoolmate of Robinson at St. Paul’s School.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1906-09-13

Business card of C. F. Heckler, attorney and counselor at law, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-27

Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Colonel Nelson on two points: that the state should pay for election costs so that the poor can vote, and that lawyers cost too much, meaning that justice goes to the wealthy. Roosevelt thinks that this latter point is too radical to fight for at this time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-07-30