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Charles M. Hoyt was not named Postmaster at Haverhill, Massachusetts, despite support from Congressman Augustus Peabody Gardner. The present postmaster, H. L. Pinkham, has been reappointed.
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1904-11
Business card with the name of John M. Barnes written by hand with other illegible notation. Barnes was being recommended for the position of Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt discusses matters relating to the upcoming election with William H. Taft including campaign contributions, a talk he had with Frank H. Hitchcock, and the problem with the renomination of Charles Evans Hughes as governor of New York.
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1908-08-12
Senator John H. Mitchell insists that William McKinley had promised his son an appointment as captain in the Quartermaster’s Department but there is no record of such a promise. President Roosevelt would like young Mitchell to be made a first lieutenant if he does well on the examination.
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1901-10-18
President Roosevelt advises Major Moore to only apply for positions for which he is qualified. Appointing relatives on any other basis is seen as “much worse than a mistake.”
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1901-09-27
James Hoge Tyler thanks Theodore Roosevelt for appointing Lulu Otey Hoge as postmistress after her husband’s death and asks him to help her keep the job so she can continue supporting her family.
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1911-09-11
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California, Berkeley, apologizes to William Loeb for being “obliged to trouble” President Roosevelt with the issue of appointing a postmaster for Berkeley. However, he strongly opposes the appointment of Charles E. Thomas as it fulfills the “private purposes of a political candidate,” that candidate being Representative Joseph R. Knowland.
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1907-08-20
William O’Connell Bradley is requesting, as a favor, that President Roosevelt replace Edward T. Franks with Lawson Randolph Reno for the position of revenue collector in the second district of Kentucky.
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1905-01-19
Judge Jones denies accusations that he has been attempting to control Republican politics and patronage in Alabama.
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1903-10-20
Joseph H. Barker seeks appointment to a position with the Panama Railroad Company.
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1904-12-17
Joseph Bucklin Bishop provides an update on the New York political situation as it pertains to securing the Republican nomination for the United States Senate and for Governor.
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1904-12-15
Lieutenant Governor Higgins asks President Roosevelt to find a political appointment for General Edward Charles O’Brien.
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1904-12-09
Charles S. Francis writes that he would accept a diplomatic appointment in St. Petersburg or Rome, since his preferred posting to Vienna is unavailable. He thanks President Roosevelt for considering his application.
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1904-12-09
An “ardent admirer” of both Charles Bonaparte and President Roosevelt proposes the appointment of Mr. Johnson for Postmaster of Baltimore. This appointment could settle disagreements between party factions.
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1904-12-09
Francis Bennett Williams refutes Armand Romain’s criticisms of the Republican Party in Louisiana. Williams writes that Romain’s faction do not always support Republican candidates. He says Romain is angry because he was not appointed to a government job that he wanted and believes it was because he was a Major in a colored regiment. Williams returns Romain’s letter, written to President Roosevelt in November 1904, and encloses a letter Romain wrote to him in 1903.
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1904-12-07
Nicholas Murray Butler writes that the New York City newspapers have published favorable reviews of President Roosevelt’s message. Railroad executives are reacting to statements of pending regulations. It is expected that Roosevelt will discuss the tariff at a later date since he did not include the topic in his speech. Butler includes a lengthy excerpt of a letter from John S. Kennedy. Kennedy writes that Roosevelt backers are being pressured to support F. Marion Crawford for a diplomatic position in Turkey. Kennedy does not think a Catholic appointee would protect the American Protestant missionaries in Turkey. Butler surmises the pressure is being brought to bear by Mrs. Hobson. Butler concludes by reminding Roosevelt he promised to schedule a meal to celebrate the election with old friends, like Joseph Bucklin Bishop and Butler, in New York City.
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1904-12-07
Congressman Fassett asks President Roosevelt to leave appointments at the Seneca Falls Post Office as is until March 1905. Fassett spoke of this favor with Roosevelt prior to the election.
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1904-12-02
F. Norton Goddard is upset that his recommended nominee for Postmaster of New York City, Marcus M. Marks, will not be appointed. Goddard blames Senator Thomas Collier Platt for interfering in the appointment. Goddard writes of the “malign influence” Platt exerts. Goddard is worried that his business will suffer because the Jewish American community will hold him responsible for the slight to Marks. Goddard asks that Roosevelt confer with him on other appointments even though he has passed on Marks.
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1904-12-02
Representative Brownlow requests that he and J. C. R. McCall be made advisers regarding post office appointments in Tennessee.
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1904-12-02
F. Norton Goddard has heard that Senator Platt may remove his objections to Goddard’s proposed candidate for postmaster. Goddard urges President Roosevelt to appoint Mr. Marks.
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1904-11-30