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Senator Hanna has requested that President Roosevelt look into the case of John T. Lockert and Alice Vienne, employees of the New Orleans mint. Roosevelt would like Lockert made a permanent foreman and Vienne given constant employment.
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1903-08-06
President Roosevelt has written to Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and asked him to make the appointments at the New Orleans Mint.
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1903-08-06
President Roosevelt will not have a bad politician at the United States Mint. He advises Secretary of the Treasury Gage to keep Mr. Beyer if he is doing well, but to replace him with “no one but the very highest type of man” if he wishes to leave the Mint.
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1901-12-21
T. Louis Comparette, curator at the Philadelphia Mint, would like to add a medal designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens commemorating Theodore Roosevelt’s inauguration to the National Collection of Coins and Medals. He believes that the dies are in possession of the Tiffany Company, but is unsure who has the rights to them. He asks if Roosevelt would be able to secure permission for one or two bronze casts to be made. If Tiffany does not hold the rights to the die, Comparette wonders if ownership could be transferred to the national collection.
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1911-02-01
Owen Wister asks President Roosevelt to wait to appoint the “lay” member of the Mint Assay Commission because he has someone “honorable, eminent, and apt” to suggest for the role.
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1909-01-12
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou forwards to President Roosevelt the letter of resignation he has received from Director of the Mint George E. Roberts. Cortelyou asks that Roosevelt accept the resignation and expresses his approval of Roberts’s work. He will send a recommendation for a successor separately.
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1907-07-09
Colorado State Republican Chairman Fairley regrets to inform President Roosevelt that Francis Mott Downer and Frank W. Howbert helped the “machine” cross Philip Battell Stewart during Republican nominations for the Colorado Supreme Court. Stewart agreed to be nominated only if the Court was not “loaded.” Stewart withdrew his nomination after William H. Gabbert was nominated instead. Fairley discloses that John F. Vivian and a few others were loyal to Stewart during the voting.
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1906-09-18
Augustus Saint-Gaudens writes to President Roosevelt concerning his commission to redesign the federal coinage. Saint-Gaudens discusses his poor health as well as his plans for the coin designs.
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1906-06-28
Michael F. Moran describes the process of choosing designs for a gold coin of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to be issued by the United States Mint. Moran details his selection for the relevant committee, and he notes how he brought his expertise on coins and the Roosevelts to bear on his work. Moran describes the many steps and approvals needed over the course of two years to agree on a design and designers, and he notes that he used Sylvia Jukes Morris’s biography of Roosevelt as a reference to guide his and the committee’s work. In the end, the committee chose an obverse design that was based on Theodore Roosevelt’s favorite photograph of his wife, and the reverse image highlights the restoration of the White House undertaken in 1902.
In addition to photographs of Moran and Edith Roosevelt, illustrations of the proposed and winning designs for both sides of the coin and bronze medal accompany the essay. A text box contains information on how to order the coin.
Director of the Mint George E. Roberts submits his resignation to President Roosevelt.
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1907-07-08
Theodore Roosevelt recommends A. Piatt Andrew to whoever will read this letter. Roosevelt mentions Andrew’s experience at the United States Mint, the National Monetary Commission, and the American Red Cross Society.
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1914-12-22
William D. Sohier writes to Eliot C. Clarke and encloses a letter from President Roosevelt regarding the United States Mint and the striking of new St. Andrew’s coinage designs.
1907-10-14
President Roosevelt thanks William D. Sohier for his letter. He informs Sohier that he has written to the United States Mint and urged them to strike the coins in question. Roosevelt also writes that he will forward Sohier’s letter to the Mint.
1907-08-24
As requested by President Roosevelt, Civil Service Commissioner Greene submits a memorandum regarding the conditions at the United States Mint in Philadelphia. Greene describes the recent removal of five employees and attributes their removal to their association with the Democratic Party. As an example, Greene writes of the removal of Francis P. Rodden, his appeal to Superintendent Charles B. Landis, and his immediate replacement by Republican Party worker Stephen Frisby. Greene mentions inspections led by past commissioners William Dudley Foulke, Frank M. Kiggins, and Alford Warriner Cooley, and requests that the United States Treasury Department reinstate the five men illegally removed from their positions.
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1903-10-22
Francis Bennett Williams states that Mayer Cahen, Coiner of the Mint, has been asked for his resignation but does not wish to resign. Williams hopes that Secretary of the Treasury Shaw will appoint William J. Brophy at once.
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1903-08-05
John C. Driscoll writes to Senator Hanna in order to secure the position of permanent foreman to John T. Leckert and constant employment to Alice Vienne at the New Orleans Mint. He lauds both workers and ends the letter explaining his own credentials for making such a recommendation.
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1903-06-11
It has been arranged for Clifford Richardson to be on the Assay Commission to visit the Mint.
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1903-01-18
D. B. Fairley approves the appointment of Francis Mott Downer and Joseph W. Milsom.
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1902-08-09
Secretary of the Treasury Gage alerts President Roosevelt that George E. Roberts, Director of the United States Mint, will consult him regarding nominations for “An Annual Assay Commission.” The members of the Commission serve with no other compensation but expenses.
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1902-01-09
Superintendent Boothby understands that President Roosevelt’s attention has been drawn to the status of officials in Louisiana. He asks Senator Frye to provide his opinion of him (Boothby) to Roosevelt.
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1902-01-08