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Frank S. Roberts has been appointed district judge of the twenty-second judicial district of Texas. Roberts is a native Texan who joined Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and then attended law school in Indiana. He returned to Texas to practice law and was quickly elected country attorney. Roberts has impressively risen from janitor to lawyer to district judge in seven years.
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1911-12-04
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1905-05-25
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
President Roosevelt is glad Cecil Andrew Lyon anticipates a good run by John Nicholas Simpson, candidate for Governor of Texas. Roosevelt will send for the report from Special Investigator Nevius.
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1908-09-15
President Roosevelt enjoyed Senator Bourne’s letter and the quotations from his wife, Lillian Elizabeth Wyatt Bourne. He appreciates Bourne’s support of sending the fleet to the Pacific, which will happen regardless of the approval of Senator Eugene Hale.
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1907-08-13
President Roosevelt will take up the El Paso, Texas, collectorship and requests a recommendation from William H. H. Llewellyn.
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1901-10-19
President Roosevelt would like John Nicholas Simpson’s opinion on the character and qualifications of anyone up for reappointment to a federal office in Texas.
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1901-10-16
James Timothy Flint knows that Theodore Roosevelt admired the work of his grandfather Timothy Flint, and wonders if Roosevelt has read John E. Kirkpatrick’s account of the elder Flint’s life. Flint also hopes that Roosevelt will provide a quotation or positive review for his forthcoming book of “Reminiscences,” which largely related to the Texas frontier during the Civil War.
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1911-10-11
Benjamin Emden asks Theodore Roosevelt if he received the box of Texas watermelon seeds Emden sent.
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1911-09-28
James Milton Vance invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend the encampment of the Texas Boy Scouts at the International Fair in November.
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1911-09-25
Reverend Millican invites President Roosevelt to a black bear hunt in the mountains of Texas and promises that it will be as public or private as Roosevelt likes. He says that everything will be taken care of for Roosevelt and that he is sure to get a bear because they always do. Millican concludes by praising Roosevelt’s presidency, urging him to run for another term, and asking God’s protection over the president.
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1907-09-12
Attorney General Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on matters regarding United States District Attorney N. M. Ruick, the prosecution of the International Harvester Company, and affairs in Oklahoma. He is greatly concerned about reports of Secretary of State Elihu Root’s health. Territorial Governor of New Mexico George Curry intends to appoint David J. Leahy as assistant attorney general of the territory. Bonaparte feels obligated to inform Roosevelt of this appointment as Leahy is possibly “one of the persons about whom there has been complaint by the Interior Department.”
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1907-08-29
Charlotte Everett Hopkins, wife of Archibald Hopkins, chief clerk of the United States Court of Claims, relays her convalescing husband’s gratitude to President Roosevelt for his concern. While Hopkins worries about his duties to the court, Chief Justice Stanton J. Peelle kindly understands the situation. Charlotte joins her husband in gratitude and recalls Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s support the previous year when her son A. Lawrence Hopkins took ill.
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1907-08-20
John J. Stevens of the Texas Game Protective Association urges President Roosevelt to ensure that the Biological survey be retained in the interest of both game and agriculture protection.
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1907-01-26
Benjamin F. Sparhawk of the General Land Office testifies in court as to certain “wrong and irregular” acts by colleagues in his department, including improper approvals of land lieu selections and favoritism in the selection and promotion of employees. Sparhawk particularly implicates John McPhaul, his division chief.
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1906-12-19
Benjamin Ide Wheeler sends a lengthy excerpt from a letter written by Professor Mezes, a Democrat living in Texas. Mezes states the South will change its allegiance from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party due to changes President Roosevelt has made in the Republican Party.
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1904-12-07
W. Sloan Simpson and Colonel Cecil Andrew Lyon are planning a hunting trip with President Roosevelt. Roosevelt will be on vacation in Texas and they hope to hunt wolves and bears.
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1904-11-16
Cecil Andrew Lyon congratulates President Roosevelt on his victory and updates him on the situation in Texas. Although the Republican vote was light in Texas, the typically enormous Democratic majority did not exist. When Lyon visits Washington, D.C., he plans to show Roosevelt what the Republican Party was able to accomplish in Texas. He also wants to know when Roosevelt is planning to visit Texas, how much time he plans to spend hunting, and if he would be willing to address two or three meetings in Texas.
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt holds his gun and walks away from the White House toward “Texas.” A stork and an eagle wish him off, saying, “Have a good time.”
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1905-04-03
President Roosevelt holds an “itinerary” and a gun as he walks toward the “happy hunting grounds.” The itinerary says, “Monday: leave Washington; Tuesday: speech at Louisville, stop at St. Louis; Wednesday: stop in Indian Territory, speech at Sherman, Texas, and at Dallas; Thursday: at Waco and Austin, arrive at Antonio; Friday: Rough Riders reunion at San Antonio; Saturday: speech at Ft. Worth, leave Ft. Worth for several weeks’ hunting in Texas and Colorado.”
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1905-04-04
Baylor University will be debating the University of Texas over the Homestead and Exemptions Laws which are often abused in Texas. The unknown author asks Vice President Roosevelt for his opinion on these laws and to compare them to homestead laws in his own state.
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1901