Longworth, Nicholas, 1869-1931

Bertha Gray Zalinski apologizes for confusing Theodore Roosevelt, she sent Roosevelt two letters, but it appears he only read the second and therefore did not get all the details. Zalinski is trying to get her brother’s pension because she depended on him for support and helped him with his work. There are precedents, but Zalinski feels that because she is a woman, she is not being given the same treatment as those in similar situations but male. She hopes that because Roosevelt knew her brother, he might use his influence to help her.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-17

Richard Pretlow Ernst sends Theodore Roosevelt two newspaper clippings from the Louisville Evening Post. The editor, Richard Wilson Knott states that William H. Taft has ruined the Republican Party in Kentucky and Ernst agrees.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

William Crawford Gorgas thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his actions to ensure the Sanitary Department and sanitation policy in the Panama Canal zone were not overthrown. The Sanitary Department is now being praised, but it would not have been possible without Roosevelt’s support in 1905.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-24

President Roosevelt is amused at some of the political attacks against him. He agrees to Senator Lodge’s suggestions for personnel changes in the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, but is unsure how to handle the “whisky business” regarding the Pure Food and Drug Act. Roosevelt is facing a number of requests that he run for reelection, but is not concerned with what most people think.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-21

President Roosevelt thanks Colonel Markbreit for his letter. He asks Markbreit to share his opinions with Representative Nicholas Longworth, who is also from the Cincinnati area, so that Longworth and Roosevelt might discuss them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-20

President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador White for the clipping he recently sent and for hosting Admiral Charles H. Stockton in Paris. Roosevelt is anxious for the Great White Fleet to travel to the Pacific Ocean, because while he wants Japan to know he has nothing but friendly intentions, he also wants them to know he is not afraid of them. Roosevelt wishes Congress would provide adequate housing for American ambassadors abroad, but is afraid it will take some time to accomplish it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-30

President Roosevelt suggests guest accommodation arrangements on the train when his daughters Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Ethel Roosevelt come to visit along with others.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-26

President Roosevelt describes the family’s “ideal” Christmas celebrations to his sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. He asks Robinson to find out how her son, Monroe Douglas Robinson, could bear being seen with Roosevelt’s son, Ted Roosevelt, when Ted was wearing “such as cap as he seems to have carried.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-26

President Roosevelt holds his big stick “for reactionaries,” a knife “for corporate wealth,” and a blunderbuss “for malefactors.” Representative Nicholas Longworth holds a play sword and says, “That’s my dad.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

Joseph Harry Cunningham of the Washington Herald drew a rare caricature of Representative Nicholas Longworth, and rarer still, a cartoon featuring the Congressman and his father-in-law President Roosevelt. The cartoon features a routine (for opposing cartoonists) dismissive caricature of Roosevelt, in his Rough Rider outfit and with the iconic paraphernalia associated with his policies.

George Barnsdale Cox hands his card to the “door boy” at the “headquarters of the political big 4.” Cox says, “In order to cause no consternation in that crowd or have any of them die from palpitation of the heart, just present this card as quitely [sic] as possible to the bunch.” Four men sit at a table: Norman G. Kenan, Charles Phelps Taft, Ohio Representative Nicholas Longworth, and Julius Fleischmann. Longworth holds a letter from President Roosevelt that suggests the “Ohio problem” can be solved by electing Fleischmann as governor of Ohio. Fleischmann says, “My, Nick, but how your father-in-law does flatter me.” Meanwhile, Kenan says, “That letter of Teddy’s is music to my ear. We’ll have a ticket this fall that will win sure, and that’s not gas.” Taft replies, “It certainly has a very fine gingle, Norman. Isn’t it nice to be good.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09

President Roosevelt, Secretary of War William H. Taft, and Ohio Representative Nicholas Longworth look out the window as Longworth points at explosions surrounding an area labeled “Ohio.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

President Roosevelt’s new son-in-law Nicholas Longworth was a congressman from Ohio — actually, from the district of Secretary of War William H. Taft, Roosevelt’s preferred successor — and a volunteer peace-maker, scout, and emissary of the president in matters pertaining to the Republican Party’s internal feud in the Buckeye state. Another presidential aspirant, Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, hailed from the opposite, northern, part of the state; and there were buckets, so to speak, of bad blood between Roosevelt and Foraker, and Foraker and many fellow Ohio Republicans.

There is a flurry of activity in Washington, D.C., with people running around and an “express wagon” and “florist.” A number of signs are posted: “Bulletin—It is proposed to run Mr. Longworth for governor of Ohio,” “Later!! He has just been mentioned for U.S. Senator,” “Bulletin—A real lace hat from Paris has just arrived via messenger boy,” and “Important bulletin—Mr. Longworth has just lighted another cigar. Great excitement prevails.” A newsboy holds a newspaper that reads, “Extra—Nick has just had a sandwich.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02

Nicholas Longworth, future husband of Alice Roosevelt, aged six.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1875-1876

Portrait of Nicholas Longworth.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906

A photograph of Alice Roosevelt Longworth and her husband Nicholas probably taken around 1908.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908

A Roosevelt family photograph taken at the White House in 1908. From left to right: Ethel Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Quentin Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and Nicholas Longworth.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit and daughter-in-law Belle about receiving a letter from Rudyard Kipling and having to go on a trip to promote the liberty loan. He has to make speeches and is not happy about going. He says Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s husband, Nicholas Longworth, made a speech in Congress referencing Kermit and his brothers. Alice came to visit Archie.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-09-26

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit about the unhappiness of Archie, Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt regarding their circumstances in the war right now. He talks of taking a trip to Washington with Edith to visit Alice and Nick Longworth. He says Tommy Hitchcock thanked him for helping shore up conditions in the military training camps.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-01-27

Theodore Roosevelt tells his son Kermit he wrote a letter to the War Department requesting a place for Kermit with the army in France. He does not know how it will be received, given President Woodrow Wilson’s feelings toward Roosevelt and General Leonard Wood. He received a letter from Archie Roosevelt in the hospital, and also letters from Ted Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-04-14

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to comment on Kermit’s salary and tell him Ethel Roosevelt and Richard Derby will be married in four weeks. He gives updates on family members and says he plans to take Archie and Quentin Roosevelt on a trip to Arizona.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1913-03-07