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McGowan, Samuel, 1870-1934

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Letter from Albert L. Key to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Albert L. Key to Theodore Roosevelt

Albert L. Key wishes to reassure President Roosevelt that he was not disloyal to him during a recent encounter with Senator Benjamin R. Tillman in which Key insisted that William Sowden Sims be given a chance to make a full statement to an investigating committee. While he was visiting Tillman, Pay Inspector Samuel McGowan also visited and, Key later learned, urged Tillman to suppress Sims’s testimony. Key does not trust McGowan’s character, but says that Roosevelt can judge for himself.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-06

Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to William Loeb

Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to William Loeb

Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte returns to William Loeb a letter from Congressman Amos L. Allen and explains its peculiar circumstances. Navy Paymaster Samuel McGowan has charged Bonaparte’s secretary, Henry C. Gauss, with forging a letter making charges against McGowan. Though Gauss is no friend to McGowan, Bonaparte does not think that Gauss sees McGowan as an enemy; nor does he think Gauss so foolish as to attempt such a “silly, childish trick.” Thus, Bonaparte doubts the accuracy of the handwriting analysis McGowan had done on the letter and asks Loeb to offer an opinion once he reviews the papers.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-24

Letter from H. T. B. Harris to William Loeb

Letter from H. T. B. Harris to William Loeb

Rear Admiral H. T. B. Harris states that the “baseless scandals” surrounding him originate from spiteful clerks in the office of Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte. He warns William Loeb that these attacks threaten to compromise the Navy Department and the administration of President Roosevelt. Harris says that “some trifling friction” at the Brooklyn and Norfolk Navy Yards has been exaggerated, yet newspapers have gone so far as to state that Bonaparte is beginning an investigation. While Harris does not desire to head the Bureau of Accounts and Supplies indefinitely, he hopes not to be relieved of the post in the near future, as it would suggest disgrace to his honorable 43-year naval career.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-24

Letter from Amos L. Allen to William Loeb

Letter from Amos L. Allen to William Loeb

Amos L. Allen wants to make William Loeb and perhaps President Roosevelt aware of an issue of possible forgery and fraud in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in the Navy Department. Paymaster Samuel McGowan found a letter purporting to be from a street and house number in Brooklyn that does not exist. Upon having a handwriting analysis done, McGowan believes that Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte’s private secretary Henry C. Gauss is behind the forgery. McGowan took the matter up with Bonaparte, who ignored it. Allen requests that Loeb and Roosevelt look into the matter if they see fit.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-20