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State Assemblyman Roosevelt introduces himself to Frederick W. Kruse. Roosevelt informs Kruse that he is a candidate for speaker and asks for Kruse’s support.
1883-11-12
Not yet acquainted, State Assemblyman Roosevelt introduces himself to State Assemblyman Hubbell. Roosevelt informs Hubbell that he is a candidate for speaker and asks for Hubbell’s support.
1883-11-12
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna about his work in Albany as a State Assemblyman.
1884-03-26
New York State Assemblyman William G. Miller visited Governor Frank Wayland Higgins and says that he approves of the selection of James Wolcott Wadsworth for speaker.
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1905-12-22
Article discussing the actions of ex-Governor Benjamin B. Odell with current Governor Frank Wayland Higgins and the nomination for Speaker.
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1905-12-22
President Roosevelt thanks Judge Kruse for his letter. He appreciated Kruse’s reminiscence of their years together in the New York State Assembly.
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1908-10-31
President Roosevelt asks if Speaker of the New York Assembly Wadsworth could give his own assemblyman, William G. Miller, chairmanship of the Committee on Villages.
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1906-01-10
President Roosevelt informs Hamilton Fish II that up until Governor Frank Wayland Higgins took action, he also would have chosen Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright for Speaker of the Assembly over James Wolcott Wadsworth. Former governor Benjamin B. Odell made his canvass a “savage and personal attack” on Roosevelt and had chosen to back Wainwright, and as such, a victory for Wainwright would have been seen as a victory for Odell.
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1906-01-04
President Roosevelt congratulates newly-elected Speaker of the New York Assembly James Wolcott Wadsworth on his victory. He offers Wadsworth “platitudinous” advice to try to make the Republican party useful to the public and the State by acting according to high ideals, and also to act without thinking of his own political advancement. Roosevelt also advises Wadsworth to show his appreciation to fellow Assemblymen James T. Rogers and Sherman Moreland, who “behaved very squarely” on Wadsworth’s behalf.
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1906-01-03
President Roosevelt is very concerned at the telegram Hamilton Fish II sent to Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and hopes Fish will not take any further action without consulting him first. Roosevelt would consider the defeat of James Wolcott Wadsworth for Speaker of the Assembly as an “irreparable” blow to the cause of honest government in New York.
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1906-01-02
President Roosevelt thanks Assemblyman Miller for his note, and is glad that Miller has decided to support James Wolcott Wadsworth for Speaker of the New York Assembly.
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1905-12-27
President Roosevelt tells New York Governor Higgins that he will take steps to get those who have not already committed themselves to support James Wolcott Wadsworth for Speaker of the Assembly.
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1905-12-24
President Roosevelt discusses the condition of the Republican party in New York state with Representative Parsons. Although he does not want to be directly involved in selecting the specific man who will serve as Speaker of the Assembly, Roosevelt believes it is important that a “clean man” be elected, rather than one who is beholden to party bosses or the “machine.” It is imperative that James Wolcott Wadsworth is elected, rather than Edwin A. Merritt, who appears to be under the control of ex-governor Benjamin B. Odell.
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1905-12-20
President Roosevelt tells Representative Littauer that he wants to see how the contest for Speaker of the New York State Assembly plays out before he responds to state senator Edgar Truman Brackett. Roosevelt is surprised that James Wolcott Wadsworth seems to have been selected to “lead the fight,” but he believes that the best thing to do now is to make him Speaker.
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1905-12-20
President Roosevelt reminds Charles A. Schieren that he is President, and not a political boss, and he will not have anything to do with the speakership in New York.
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1905-11-22
President Roosevelt sends Representative Parsons the text of a telegram he sent to Hamilton Fish II, which Parsons can share confidentially. In it, Roosevelt expresses concern with the telegram that Fish sent to Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, and hopes that Fish will take no further action without first consulting him.
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1906-01-02
President Roosevelt thanks the members of the 25th Legislative District for their kind words.
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1904-09-24
George Roland Malby recounts for William Loeb his sixteen years of service in the New York Legislature, in the Assembly, and Senate. Malby hopes Loeb will pass on to President Roosevelt congratulations for taking a stand and acting in the interest of the people in recent bills relating to railroad rates, Arizona and New Mexico joint statehood, and agriculture. Malby offers his continued support to the president and sends wishes to the Roosevelts from his wife Lucy A. Malby.
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1904-03-04
William W. Cocks has been nominated for Assemblyman in Nassau County and President Roosevelt wants his home district to be Republican. Roosevelt would like William Emlen Roosevelt to raise money for Cocks and sends $200 as a starter, but asks him not to say where he got it.
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1903-10-02
O. R. Miller sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the Reform Bulletin urging that Assemblyman Robert Lansing be elected as speaker. He asks Roosevelt to help in the fight. Nearly 12,000 subscribers throughout New York receive the periodical.
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1911-11-10