Vice-Presidents

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Vice President Roosevelt would like to assist his comrade, but both law and custom prevent him from intervening in the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-07-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Senator Lodge encourages President Roosevelt to release Fairbanks’s report, letters, and a statement concerning his intentions in order to prove that all have been acting in “the utmost good faith.” Lodge believes that the documents will put an end to one part of the “agitation.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-06

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Senator Fairbanks’s capabilities and the importance of the office of the vice-president are discussed in these extracts of speeches by Elihu Root, Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, and Secretary of State John Hay.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904

Creator(s)

Unknown

Two articles in The Minneapolis Journal discuss the nomination of President Roosevelt and Senator Charles W. Fairbanks as the Republican candidates for president and vice-president. Given Roosevelt’s “accidental” rise to the presidency following the assassination of William McKinley and his subsequent nomination as presidential candidate in his own right, the vice presidency now has more importance than it has at any point since Martin Van Buren held that office. A third article discusses the addition Senator Knute Nelson’s amendment regarding the Dingley tariff to the Republican party platform.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-24

Creator(s)

Unknown

Charles W. Fairbanks, as Robinson Crusoe, sits on a rock labeled “Vice-Presidency” on the shore of a vast sea.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-01-03

Charles W. Fairbanks, dressed as a Rough Rider, stands in front of a mirror and sees himself as Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: Fairbanks — De-light-ed!

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-07-13

Several vignettes illustrate the difficulty of catching a vice presidential candidate, including offering some “Possible Premiums,” such as a “Cabinet Portfolio,” a “Carnegie Hero Pension,” use of the “Vice Pres’ yacht Tailenda,” and a “10 years lease for pedestal in the Hall of Fame.” Caption: What’s the matter with the Vice-Presidential Chair?

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-06-08

Illustration showing “Teddy” Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform, being drawn to “Vice Presidential Waters” by four women labeled “North,” “East,” “South,” and “West.” The women represent Sirens of Greek mythology — beautiful creatures who lured men to their doom.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1900-05-16

Special Easter edition centerfold shows President William McKinley as a rooster standing next to a broken egg labeled “Vice-Presidential Aspirations” from which several chicks have emerged, identified as: Lodge, Black, Bliss, Teddy, Root, Beveridge, and Timmy Woodruff.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1900-04-18

Senator Hanna walks away from a beckoning chair labeled the vice-presidency as President Roosevelt and a teddy bear look on. Caption: Hanna for Vice-President?

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-03-10

Creator(s)

Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Harper gives Daniel LeRoy Dresser permission to make a statement at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, regarding Roosevelt’s acceptance of the vice-presidency under President McKinley.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-10-08

Creator(s)

Harper, Frank, 1882-1971

Theodore Roosevelt is pleased by Albert Shaw’s writing in the Review of Reviews. Roosevelt discusses his views of the Progressive Party as a new party comparable to the Republican Party after it broke away from the Whig Party. Roosevelt discusses the Progressive Party running as a third party and also agrees with Shaw about the Vice-Presidency.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-08-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt believes that the baby’s name fixes candidates for president and vice-president to be nominated by the People’s Party. Regarding the “ark business,” he feels sympathy for Noah’s friends that expected a light shower.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Walter A. Miller that once Roosevelt became president after President William McKinley’s assassination that Senator William Pierce Frye was temporarily elected Senate president until Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks was elected.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-26

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt asks Senator Lodge about rumors that he has heard concerning several planks in the Republican Party’s platform. Roosevelt thinks that omitting references to postal savings banks and injunctions would not be favorable. He also informs Lodge that he has heard protests against J. S. Sherman being nominated as the Vice Presidential candidate. William H. Taft thinks that discussion of the candidate for Vice President can be postponed until after the platform is adopted and the Presidential nominee selected.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is not interfering in the Vice Presidential matter, and believes that the information Herman Henry Kohlsaat writes about should be told to Secretary of War William H. Taft in confidence.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is not taking any part in the nomination for Vice President, and has not expressed any opinion on the subject.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Major Bridgman and Squadron A of the New York National Guard, and has made the request for them to be his personal escort. Roosevelt may also have members of the Rough Rider Regiment as part of the escort but says he will work out details later. Because Squadron A was his escort when he was made Governor of New York and Vice President, he would like them to be in the same position now.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Vice President Roosevelt’s secretary informs Reverend Bittner that Roosevelt must decline his request for financial assistance for his church.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-07

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt