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TLS as president, one page, 7.25 x 9, White House letterhead, December 5, 1901. Letter to future governor of Massachusetts Curtis Guild, Jr., in part, “Maguire has been examined three times and has failed in each instance. It would be a gross absurdity, and an iniquitous absurdity also, to give him another trial. If they want a congressional investigation, tell them by all means to go ahead and have it. Please add that whatever the investigators may say will not weigh a sixteenth of an ounce in altering what has been done! I could not possibly appoint him at large. It would be a wrong thing to do under the circumstances. Besides, I always appoint the sons of army and navy officers." In fine condition.
Guild’s father was an active supporter of vice presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt, routinely traveling with him and substituting for him when he lost his voice. The younger Guild joined the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1891, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in 1898 and, during the Spanish-American War, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Inspector General of Havana. In 1905, he was elected by popular vote as Governor of Massachusetts, remaining in said post until 1909. Two years later, President Taft appointed him as the United States Ambassador to Russia.
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