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Twelve officers of color are listed, including names, ranks, titles, and dates of appointment. The list includes individuals from the 9th Calvary, 10th Calvary, 24th Infantry, 25th Infantry, and Philippine Scouts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-21
A list of all men of color appointed to or continued in office by President Roosevelt, complete with the office and date.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou encloses a letter from Captain John Roy Lynch and notes that there was previous correspondence on the same subject.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-13
President Roosevelt has spoken with Mr. Thrasher who only knew of trivial irregularities relating to Mr. Lynch’s character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-31
Albert Shaw sends President Roosevelt proofs of an article that will appear in the July issue of the American Monthly Review of Reviews. He cautions Roosevelt against letting a ruling clique in the Republican National Committee set the agenda for the convention, as it will be ruinous to William H. Taft’s candidacy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-21
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou forwards to William Loeb correspondence from Major Lynch regarding the appointment of a “colored contract surgeon” at an army post, and he asks Loeb to consider it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-19
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
John B. Ashbaugh examines Theodore Roosevelt’s complicated views on race and charts his history with various ethnic and racial groups, including Native Americans, African-Americans, and Jews. Ashbaugh highlights the influence of Roosevelt’s southern born and raised mother and her brothers, both of whom served the Confederacy during the Civil War. Ashbaugh stresses that Roosevelt’s views evolved over time, and he demonstrates how Roosevelt believed in and promoted the Progressive views of his time such as the assimilation of Native Americans, but that he also respected many aspects of Native culture and had enduring friendships with individual Native Americans. Ashbaugh presents Roosevelt’s views on Jews and immigration, and he details many aspects of Roosevelt’s feelings toward and relationship with African-Americans, including his condemnation of lynching, his White House dinner with Booker T. Washington, and the Brownsville incident.
Five photographs and two illustrations appear in the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2020
Edgar S. Wilson is working to support President Roosevelt’s administration in Mississippi. He quotes Major Lynch, an African American politician, in saying that “the colored people are being treated with marked consideration and perfect fairness” and have “no fault to find with the Administration.” For that reason, his delegation will support the nomination of Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-30