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Document 33283

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Complimenting Assembly Speaker Hamilton Fish on a bill allowing the American flag to fly over public buildings.
TLS: "Theodore Roosevelt" as U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, 1p, 7¾x9¾. Washington, D.C., 1895 March 1. To Hon. Hamilton Fish, Assembly Chamber, Albany, N.Y. In full: "Permit me to thank you for your kindness about the zoological bill. Also pray let me say how pleased I am with the way your legislature has been acting hitherto. If, as I have no question, you go on as you have started you will make a record of which the State will have every reason to be proud, and which will be a very great aid to our party; and for this, my dear sir, nobody will deserve more credit than you yourself. I was particularly pleased at the passage of the bill prohibiting the flying of the flag of any people except our own on public buildings." HAMILTON FISH (1849-1936) was the son and namesake of Grant's Secretary of State. A Republican, young Fish was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1874-1896, serving as Speaker from 1895-1896. THEODORE ROOSEVELT had served with Fish in the Assembly from 1882-1884. Fish was appointed by his old Assembly colleague, now President Theodore Roosevelt, as Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York City in 1903 and served until October 1908, when he resigned to run for Congress. He served one term (1909-1911) and was defeated for reelection. His son and grandson namesakes also served in Congress. Roosevelt was appointed to the United States Civil Service Commission by President Benjamin Harrison in 1889. He resigned later in 1895 to become President of the New York Board of Police Commissioners. Roosevelt's strong belief in Americanism is evident in the last sentence in his letter to Fish, where he expresses his pleasure at the passage of a bill that prohibits "the flying of the flag of any people except our own on public buildings". "Haloing" around type. Stained, nailhead-size stain touches the "R" in Roosevelt. Lower right corner cut.

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