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Theodore Roosevelt writes to General Thomas Henry Barry and thanks him. He will write to Senator Wainwright to ask if he could help with the Bill.
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1911-07-14
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William J. Moran for his letter and has already taken the liberty of sending it to Senator Wainwright to get his comments on it.
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1911-05-19
Theodore Roosevelt refers L. M. Moyer to New York Senator Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who will be able to give him the information he needs.
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1911-02-10
President Roosevelt informs Hamilton Fish II that up until Governor Frank Wayland Higgins took action, he also would have chosen Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright for Speaker of the Assembly over James Wolcott Wadsworth. Former governor Benjamin B. Odell made his canvass a “savage and personal attack” on Roosevelt and had chosen to back Wainwright, and as such, a victory for Wainwright would have been seen as a victory for Odell.
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1906-01-04
President Roosevelt is very concerned at the telegram Hamilton Fish II sent to Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and hopes Fish will not take any further action without consulting him first. Roosevelt would consider the defeat of James Wolcott Wadsworth for Speaker of the Assembly as an “irreparable” blow to the cause of honest government in New York.
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1906-01-02
President Roosevelt tells Representative Littauer that he wants to see how the contest for Speaker of the New York State Assembly plays out before he responds to state senator Edgar Truman Brackett. Roosevelt is surprised that James Wolcott Wadsworth seems to have been selected to “lead the fight,” but he believes that the best thing to do now is to make him Speaker.
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1905-12-20
President Roosevelt discusses the condition of the Republican party in New York state with Representative Parsons. Although he does not want to be directly involved in selecting the specific man who will serve as Speaker of the Assembly, Roosevelt believes it is important that a “clean man” be elected, rather than one who is beholden to party bosses or the “machine.” It is imperative that James Wolcott Wadsworth is elected, rather than Edwin A. Merritt, who appears to be under the control of ex-governor Benjamin B. Odell.
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1905-12-20
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1905-07-11
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
President Roosevelt sends Representative Parsons the text of a telegram he sent to Hamilton Fish II, which Parsons can share confidentially. In it, Roosevelt expresses concern with the telegram that Fish sent to Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, and hopes that Fish will take no further action without first consulting him.
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1906-01-02
General Barry has just been informed that the Taxation Committee favorably reported the bill in question and that it will likely be passed. He thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his work in support of West Point and notes that his mailing clerk sends his letters to the War Department.
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1911-07-20
Hamilton Fish writes to President Roosevelt regarding a misunderstanding over endorsement of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright for the speakership position. Fish also mentions James Wolcott Wadsworth.
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1906-01-03
Civil Service Commissioner Cooley writes President Roosevelt to discuss Mayhew Wainwright announcing his candidacy for the speaker of the New York State Assembly. Cooley asks Roosevelt to speak of this with Governor Frank Wayland Higgins when Higgins comes by later that day.
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1905-12-01
Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner recently testified in front of the New York State Assembly regarding its Burgess Corps of Albany, alleging that it is being systematically attacked by a “National Guard Ring.” He was supported by several letters from men who had been with the corps for years who joined when there was better martial spirit, and state that the dues paid for membership were not a form of political graft. New York Adjutant General William Verbeck opposed Gardiner, and hopes to disband the Corps, as it is largely useless and a joke.
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1911-07-19