Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the United States, 1858-1919
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He took office as vice president in March 1901 and assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated the following September. Roosevelt became a driving force for the anti-trust policy while supporting Progressive Era policies in the United States in the early 20th century. He made conservation a top priority and established many new national parks, intended to preserve the nation's natural resources. His successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.
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26. Präsident der USA (1858-1919). Typed letter signed. The White House, Washington, D.C. 19.12.1905. 1½ SS. auf Doppelblatt. 4to.
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To the neurologist and writer Silas Weir Mitchell, member of the American Philosophical Society: "You make it very hard for me, my dear sir. Believe me, it was painful to have to refuse your request, and it is painful now to say that I simply can not take a whole day off at that time to come even for the purpose you indicate [...] If you and any others whom you choose to indicate can bring on the French Delegate and other foreign guests (if there are any who are similarly entitled to recognition), I would be very glad to have the whole party take lunch with me; but I can not go to Philadelphia or anywhere else at that time [...]". - On stationery with printed letterhead of the White House.
26th president of the USA (1858-1919). Three typed letters signed. White House, Washington, and Oyster Bay, N. Y. 4to. Altogether (1+½+¾ =) 2¼ pages on 5 pages. On White House headed notepaper.
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Letters of appreciation from President Roosevelt to Hon. Powell Clayton, who had been appointed in 1897 as the first Ambassador of the United States to Mexico by President McKinley, when that post was elevated to an embassy post. - 1) "If, as the time approaches, you think seriously of resigning your position as Ambassador, please come to no conclusion without writing me well in advance and letting me have time to communicate with you. The result in Arkansas was to my mind absolutely conclusive as showing that the voters were with the regular organization.
How I wish we could get a Republican Congressman from Arkansas! [...]" (4 Oct. 1902). - 2) The second letter asks Clayton to attend a meeting of the National Committee the following January - "then I should like to talk in full with you over the whole situation" (20 July 1903). - 3) "Let me now thank you for having consented to stay in until the end of this term. I appreciate your having foregone your desire to return to private life [...]" (26 Oct. 1904). - Clayton resigned in May 1905. "When he retired from the Mexican embassy, [he] became a resident of Washington DC, although he maintained various business enterprises in Arkansas and continued to be a major power within the local Republican Party. He died in Washington DC on August 25, 1914, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery" (Encyclopedia of Arkansas). - With autograph amendments and additional note of congratulations, one letter with U.S. Embassy receipt stamp on one page. Creasing, light dust-staining to rectos where folded. Correspondence from Clayton to Roosevelt from this period is held in the Roosevelt Papers at the Library of Congress. The present letters have been retained in the family until now..