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President Roosevelt asks James R. Sheffield if he would help organize a “lawyers’ club” to support Roosevelt’s presidential campaign in the same way that the Constitutional Club is helping Alton B. Parker.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-27
The Cuban revolutionary party, through their New York junta, have chosen Captain Charles Cassilly Cook of Ohio as their new legal counsel. Cook’s past appointments include president of the Ohio Board of Pardons and Captain of the First Ohio Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Cook is a well-known clubman from a prominent Cincinnati family, formerly a Democrat. As a lawyer, he has written on topics including insurgent soldiery in Cuba, and the heresy of the financial theories of both William Jennings Bryan as well as Coin’s Financial School, written by William Hope Harvey.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-27
Theodore Roosevelt accepts an invitation to lunch with the Illinois State Bar Association with the stipulations that there will not be any reporters or requests for a speech. Roosevelt asks Nathan William MacChesney to invite a few businessmen to the luncheon to visit with John C. Shaffer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-04-12
James R. Sheffield writes to President Roosevelt to discuss the creation of a pro-Roosevelt club for lawyers to act as opposition to the Parker Constitutional Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-31