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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE
(1858 - 1919) Twenty-sixth President of the United States who started the Panama Canal, settled the Russo-Japanese War, broke up Standard Oil and encouraged conservation. Fine content, early A.L.S. on his Madison Ave. letterhead, 2pp. 8vo., New York, Mar. 10, 1889, to Louis (a cousin?), likely responding to his help in maintaining a post under the new Harrison administration. In part: "...before receiving your note I had been taking steps to try and keep you in; I don't know whether I shall be successful or not. I have been trying my hand at [Levi] Morton, who is a great friend of our family's but a good deal of a politician also. I doubt if I would have any influence with [James G.] Blaine...". At the time of this letter, Levi Morton was Vice President under Benjamin Harrison, inaugurated just a week before. Blaine's enmity for Roosevelt was well known, established in 1884 when the young Roosevelt attempted to wrest the nomination from him. Two months after this letter, Roosevelt was appointed to the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Very good.