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General Benjamin F. Tracy has had success as a criminal prosecutor and President Roosevelt suggests that the government use him as a prosecutor or at least an adviser. Roosevelt has also heard a man named Worthington is a good lawyer.
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1903-11-30
President Roosevelt suggests that Secretary of the Treasury Shaw speak with General Benjamin F. Tracy on the financial question.
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1903-03-19
President Roosevelt requests Secretary Root’s advice on General Tracy’s firm being connected with the Isthmian Canal Commission.
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1903-03-19
President Roosevelt would like Rear Admiral Evans to comment upon a letter from Benjamin Tracy, a former Secretary of the Navy, regarding a naval battle during the Spanish-American War.
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1902-02-06
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt explains to Seth Low that President William McKinley forbids him from taking a stand either way in the New York City political contest. However, McKinley’s secretary, John Addison Porter, and Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long both support Low. Roosevelt wishes he could do more for Low beyond what he has done “on the quiet.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-10-15
George von Lengerke Meyer enumerates the legislative history surrounding the pension of Lieutenant Henry E. Rhoades. Because of ambiguity surrounding Rhoades’s honorable discharge from the United States Navy due to a pre-existing disability, he has been paid a 50 percent salary, as opposed to a 75 percent salary owed to officers retired due to disability incurred in the line of duty. The Committee on Naval Affairs ultimately decides not to enact legislation favorable to Rhoades.
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1911-05-24
At President Roosevelt’s request regarding a particular military appointment, Secretary of War Taft discusses the seniority and ability of J. B. Bellinger, Carroll Augustine Devol, and James Buchanan Aleshire. Bellinger has rank, but Devol and Aleshire are more suited to the position. Taft suggests postponing the matter until spring.
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1906-11-29
James Sullivan Clarkson reports that General Tracy was upset he was not appointed attorney of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Clarkson recommends that President Roosevelt talk to Tracy.
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1904-08-01
Michael Kent Winder explores the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons. Winder focuses on the controversy that arose after the election of Reed Smoot to the United States Senate. Winder writes that Roosevelt decided to support Smoot after receiving assurances that Smoot did not practice polygamy, and he notes that Roosevelt expected Smoot to deliver Utah for him in the 1904 election. Winder highlights Roosevelt’s 1903 visit to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Roosevelt became the first president to speak from the pulpit of the Mormon Tabernacle. Winder traces Roosevelt’s relationship with the Mormons after he left the presidency, noting Roosevelt’s support of Mormons in the face of bigotry and Smoot’s presence at Roosevelt’s funeral.
Five photographs, two illustrations from newspapers, and a political cartoon supplement the article.
President Roosevelt has done everything he can for Lord & Hewlett in their suit against the Department of Agriculture, and he does not believe the case can be furthered.
1903-08
Benjamin F. Tracy is a cat who burned his paws on a hot stove labeled “Mayoralty Campaign 1897,” on which food labeled “Budget of Greater New York 70,000,000 Dollars” is cooking. Thomas Collier Platt is a hurdy-gurdy monkey sitting on a stool in the background. Caption: The Cat–(in a tone of great pain) M-i-e-a-o-u! Mee-yow!!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-10
The Tammany tiger, well-dressed and sitting on top of a scale model of a building labeled “Tammany Hall,” has made a puppet by tying a stick labeled “Platt’s Dummy,” with the head of Benjamin F. Tracy, to the end of its tail.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-03
Four men labeled “Tracy, Saxton, Morton, [and] Schieren” appear as children fighting to be the first to get up a ladder labeled “Rep. Nomination” and reach a large apple labeled “New York Governorship.” Caption: The boy that gets the ladder is the boy that gets the apple.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-18
Police Commissioner Roosevelt appreciates Frances Theodora Parsons’s advice regarding his high level of nervousness before the hearing. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has made similar comments on several occasions. Roosevelt has always been nervous before a “contest” but usually enjoys the actual fight. The hearing went well with a victory over General Benjamin F. Tracy and Roosevelt, under oath, was able to state to Commissioner Andrew D. Parker what he thought of Parker’s moral character.
1896-07-10
President Roosevelt was astonished to hear that General Benjamin F. Tracy was upset at the appointment of Charles Edward Magoon as general counsel for the Panama Canal Commission and believes that Tracy must have misunderstood the situation.
1904-08-02
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Owen has been forwarded William Loeb’s letter to General Benjamin F. Tracy with an enclosed letter from Ambassador Horace Porter. Owen returns the letter, and requests that Loeb thank President Roosevelt for his kindness on behalf of Tracy and the Navy League of the United States.
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1903-11-02
James Sullivan Clarkson encloses a letter from Ambassador Loomis regarding the situation in Venezuela. Loomis is in Washington, D.C., if President Roosevelt would like to speak with him. General Tracy will be in town in a few days and could also consult with Roosevelt on Venezuela.
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1902-12-12
The Committee on Naval Affairs reports on the service of Lewis Randolph Hamersly in the volunteer Navy and in the Marine Corps. Hamersly is asking to be placed on the retired list of the Marine Corps, having resigned his commission many years earlier because of illness. The bill being considered by the House of Representatives would grant him that request. The report includes a letter from Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy, testifying to Hamersly’s commendable conduct.
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1892-05-10