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President Roosevelt asks Secretary of War Wright if the position of Chief of Police for Panama has been filled yet. If it has not, Roosevelt would like to suggest Grosvenor A. Porter, a former U.S. Marshal, for the position.
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1908-12-11
President Roosevelt believes that Grosvenor A. Porter was turned down by the Senate (as United States marshal for the eastern district of Oklahoma) for political reasons. He asks Attorney General Bonaparte if there should be an investigation into possible misconduct by Samuel G. Victor. Additionally, he asks for a full report on District Attorney George B. Curtiss, who Roosevelt feels is unfit for office.
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1908-04-19
President Roosevelt sends Senator Clark a letter related to the rejection of Grosvenor A. Porter as United States Marshal for Oklahoma, which Roosevelt thinks expresses the sentiment of the public. He has heard that under the lead of Senators Joseph Benson Foraker and James A. Hemenway there is talk about similarly rejecting Samuel G. Victor, and Roosevelt asks what charges have been made against him.
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1908-03-12
President Roosevelt thanks William Dudley Foulke for the letter and clippings, and appreciated the speech that Foulke made. Roosevelt did his best to have Grosvenor A. Porter, a supporter of Secretary of War William H. Taft, appointed, but the Senate refused to confirm him. The article by the Indianapolis News is ironic, then, because it claims that by rejecting Porter, the Senate allowed Roosevelt to appoint someone who turned over the delegation to Taft. Roosevelt thinks this is funny, because it frames the situation as one in which the supporters of Joseph Gurney Cannon and Charles W. Fairbanks acted against Roosevelt’s wishes to appoint someone in favor of Taft.
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1908-03-12
President Roosevelt appreciated the letter from William E. Johnson, and comments on the rejection of Grosvenor A. Porter as a candidate for the United States Marshal position in Oklahoma. Politicians who are hostile to Roosevelt thought they could antagonize him by rejecting Porter’s nomination, and are now also trying to hold up the nomination of Samuel G. Victor.
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1908-03-12
President Roosevelt received the articles William Dudley Foulke sent him and says the statements made by Louis Ludlow are false. Roosevelt comments on his nomination of Samuel G. Victor for the position of marshal in Oklahoma following Senate’s failure to confirm Grosvenor A. Porter. Victor has been strongly recommended to Roosevelt, who has heard that his frequent opponents Senators Joseph Benson Foraker and James A. Hemenway, his frequent opponents, are trying to delay Victor’s nomination. Roosevelt does not know of any charges that would be a discredit to Victor.
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1908-03-14
President Roosevelt was concerned by Thomas A. Latta’s letter, but still hopes for Grosvenor A. Porter to be confirmed as United States Marshal. Roosevelt asks if Latta has spoken with Charles E. Hunter on the other matter that he mentioned.
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1908-02-18
President Roosevelt asks Senator Clark what the objections are to appointing Grosvenor A. Porter as Marshal of the Eastern District of Oklahoma, as he is sure they cannot be justified. Roosevelt knows Porter personally.
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1908-02-11
President Roosevelt has received the telegrams about Grosvenor A. Porter. He tells Clarence D. Clark that the charges against Porter are the same as the ones which were raised before his name was submitted, and were found to have no substance.
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1908-02-13
President Roosevelt confirms that James C. McCabe’s comrade, Porter, was his uncle Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt’s brother-in-law. Porter’s nephew, Grosvenor A. Porter, has just been named marshal of the Indian Territory.
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1906-03-03
Following the report from Burns, President Roosevelt notified Attorney General William H. Moody that he would appoint Grosvenor A. Porter to succeed Benjamin H. Colbert as United States marshal in Indian Territory. Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to have his department make specific recommendations for actions that should be taken regarding the matters discussed in Burns’s report.
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1906-02-23
President Roosevelt has read the report that Burns submitted to Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock. He believes that two men in place in Indian Territory, District Attorney George Richard Walker and U.S. Marshal Grosvenor A. Porter, could conduct the investigation. He asks Attorney General Moody what action he recommends.
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1906-02-20
In light of the results of an investigation, President Roosevelt instructs Attorney General Moody to appoint Grosvenor A. Porter as United States Marshal in Indian Territory when current marshal Benjamin H. Colbert’s term is out.
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1906-01-26
President Roosevelt thanks Ruby Cowley Porter for remembering him, and wishes her and her husband a happy New Year.
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1905-12-26
Attorney General Bonaparte relays his tentative conclusions to President Roosevelt regarding several potential appointees to permanent federal marshal, attorney, and judiciary positions in the “embryonic State” of Oklahoma (which became a state on November 16, 1907).
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1907-10-31
Following the failure of Grosvenor Porter to be confirmed as marshal of the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the article alleges that Frank H. Hitchcock, aligned with Secretary of War William H. Taft’s bid for the presidential nomination, made a deal with Samuel G. Victor to appoint him as marshal in return for his support of Taft’s campaign. Cassius M. Cade and Pliny L. Soper, Republican national committeemen from Oklahoma, helped engineer the deal.
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1908-03-06