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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells David Banks Sickels that Roosevelt does not know the address of William Hale Thompson in Chicago, Illinois. Sickels will probably be able to reach Thompson by addressing him at the Congress Hotel.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-02
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates John C. Shaffer on the success of the course he followed and notes the importance of electing William Hale Thompson as Mayor of Chicago, in part because of the “emphatic rebuke it gave to the German-Americans.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-04-10
Seth Bullock cautions Theodore Roosevelt that William Barnes, through Charles Dewey Hilles, will try to fill the 1916 Republican Convention with people who are antagonistic to Roosevelt and his friends, similar to 1912. He remarks on the conditions of the convention in 1912, when Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison influenced the police force against Roosevelt, and says that current Chicago Mayor William H. Thompson is acting similarly by speaking out against Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-03-30
David Banks Sickels asks Theodore Roosevelt for William Hale Thompson’s address in Chicago, Illinois.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-31