CONGRESSMAN YORK BOARD OF TRADE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR ADMIRAL LETTER SIGNED
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DARWIN RUSH JAMES SR. (1834 –1908)USREPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN FROM NEW YORK 1883-1887, PRESIDENTOF THE NEW YORK BOARD OF TRADE and TRANSPORTATION 1876-1900, PARK COMMISSIONER OF BROOKLYN1876-1882, CHAIRMAN OF UNITED STATES BOARD OFINDIAN COMMISSIONERS IN 1890&NEW YORK CANAL COMMISSIONER IN 1898, On June 4, 1902, James, as Chairman ofthe New York Board of Trade Special Committee, forwarded a resolution toPresident Theodore Roosevelt requesting that he appoint a commission ...tointervene in the Anthracite Coal Strike, and requesting a meeting withRoosevelt if he will not appoint a commission.HERE’S A TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY JAMES AS PRESIDENT OF THE NY BOARD OFTRADE & TRANSPORTATION, 1p., DATED AT NEW YORK, JUNE, 15th 1897 TO CAPTAIN WINFIELD SCOTTSCHLEY (1839-1911) [Schley would become a Spanish-American War Commodore, Admiral and Commander rescuing the Greeley Arctic Relief Expedition!]. IN THIS LETTER, JAMES REQUESTS SCHLEY TO APPOINT CAPTAIN FREDERICKRODGERS* AS INSPECTOR OF THE THIRD LIGHTHOUSEDISTRICT IN THE PORT OF NEW YORK CITY*FREDERICK RODGERS(1819 – 1892)CIVILWAR UNION NAVY COMMANDER, POST-WAR REAR ADMIRAL & SPANISH-AMERICAN WARCOMMANDER OF THE ASIATIC SQUADRON!The document measures 8” x 10” andis in very fine condition.<<>::<>>Biographyof the Honorable Darwin Rush JamesDarwin Rush James (May 14, 1834 –November 19, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, James pursued anacademic course in the Mount Pleasant Boarding School, Amherst, Massachusetts. He moved with hisparents to Williamsburg, New York, in 1847. He enteredthe mercantile business in New York City in 1850, became Secretary, and laterPresident, of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, and served asPark commissioner of Brooklyn in 1876–1882. James was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887) where he became a staunch supporter of free silver.He declined a renomination to Congress. He served as chairman of United States Board of Indian Commissioners in 1890. He served asmember of New York Canal Commission in 1898. He resumed mercantile pursuits. Hedied in Brooklyn, New York, November 19, 1908. He was interredin the Village Hill Cemetery, Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.<<>::<>>Biographyof Rear Admiral Frederick RodgersRear Admiral Frederick W. Rodgers (3October 1842 – 3 November 1917) was an officer in the United States Navy. He fought in the American Civil War and rose to be the last commander ofthe Asiatic Squadron. He was a grandson of U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry.[1][2]Naval careerRodgers was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, on 3 October 1842, a son of Robert Smith Rodgers (1809–1891) and the formerSarah Perry (1818–1905), a daughter of U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry(1794–1858).[3][4]He was appointed as an acting midshipmanon 25 September 1857 and attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from 1857 to 1861, completing his studies just after the April 1861 outbreak of the American Civil War.[5][6]Promoted to midshipman on 1 June 1861 and to acting masteron 10 June 1861, Rodgers' first assignment was aboardthe sailingfrigate USS Santee in the Gulf of Mexicoas part of the Unionblockade of the Confederate States of America. After Santeecaptured her second blockade runner– the hermaphrodite brig Delta carrying a cargo of salt from Liverpool, England– on 27 October 1861, Rodgers was placed aboard Delta in command of her prize crew.[5][6][7]Rodgers was promoted to lieutenanton 16 July 1862 and from 1862 to 1863 served aboard the gunboatUSS Kineo, seeing action along the Mississippi Riverin Louisianaat the First Battle of Donaldsonvilleon 9 August 1862 and in actions at Port Hudson and College Point. He transferred to the screwsteamerUSS Grand Gulf in 1863 and servedaboard her in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadronfrom 1863 to 1864 and the West Gulf Blockading Squadron from 1864 to 1865, and GrandGulf successfully intercepted a number of blockade runners during his tour.In 1865 he served aboard the steamsloop-of-warUSS Seminole.[5][6]After the war, Rodgers joined the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ofthe United States—a military society of officers whohad served in the Union armed forces.Promoted to lieutenant commander on 26 July 1866, Rodgers served aboard the newly commissioned screw steamer USS Chattanooga for a short time in1866 before reporting for duty later that year aboard the newly recommissioned screw sloop-of-war USS Sacramento. After Sacramentoran aground and was wrecked in the Bay of Bengalon 6 June 1867, Rodgers served aboard the steamer USS Michigan on the Great Lakesfrom 1868 to 1869 before duty in the North Pacific Squadron successively aboard thescrew steamer USS Pensacola and sailingsloop-of-war USS St. Mary's in 1870 and the steamsloop-of-war USS Saranac from 1871 to 1872.[5][6]After leaving the North Pacific Squadron, Rodgers performed ordnance duty at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., in 1872. He was the first commanding officer of the newly acquired steamer USS Despatch from 1873 to 1876, during which time the ship was engaged in special service. He was promoted to commander on 4 February 1875.[5][6]After duty as a lighthouseinspector on the Great Lakes from 1876 to 1877, Rodgers was the commandingofficer of the screw gunboatUSS Adams in the South Atlantic Squadron and later in the Pacific Squadronfrom 1878 to 1879. He then served a second tour as a lighthouse inspector, thistime at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1881 to 1883 before a tour from 1883 to 1886 as commanding officer of the receiving shipUSS Independence at Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California.He was a lighthouse inspector again from 1888 to September 1890, in charge ofthe Lighthouse Depot, and was promoted to captain on 26[5]or 28[6]February 1890 (sources vary).[5][8]Rodgers returned to sea as commanding officer of the protected cruiserUSS Philadelphia from September 1890 toJuly 1892, then served as Supervisor of the Harbor of New Yorkfrom July 1892 to September 1893. His next tour was as Captain of the Yard at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, from 1893 to 1896. He took commandof the new battleshipUSS Massachusetts as her first commandingofficer when she was commissioned on 10 June 1896. During the Spanish–American War he commanded the coastal monitor USS Puritan which operated in boththe Cuban and Puerto Rican Campaigns. Following the war, he served as Presidentof the Board of Inspection and Surveyfrom 1 December 1898 until 1901, being promoted to commodore on 25 September[5]or 25 December[6]1898 (sources vary) and to rear admiral on 3 March 1899.[5][6]In May 1901, Rodgers became Senior Squadron Commander within the Asiatic Squadron, and, on 1 March 1902, he became the commander of the entire Asiatic Squadron, which was engaged in combat during the Philippine–American War at the time. He was thesquadron's last commander, as at the end of his touron 29 October 1902 the Asiatic Squadron was abolished and its responsibilitieswere assumed by the new United States Asiatic Fleet.[5][9]While in the Asiatic Squadron, Rodgers was at the center of a legal case, FrederickRodgers v. United States, involving a claim Rodgers made for additional payhe believed was due him and eight other rear admirals in the wake of thepassage by the United States Congress of the Navy PersonnelAct of 3 March 1899. The Supreme Court of the United Statesheard arguments in the case on 26 February 1902 and ruled against Rodgers on 26April 1902.[10]Rodgers was commandant of the New York Navy Yard from 1 April 1903 until 3October 1904, when he retired from the Navy upon reaching the mandatoryretirement age of 62.[11][12]Retirement and deathIn retirement, Rodgers lived in Washington, D.C., for a time. He wasinvolved in various activities, such as serving in 1907 as senior member of anaval board considering land boundaries at Honoluluin the Territory of Hawaii.[13]Rodgers died of a strokeat his home in St. James on Long Island, New York, on 3 November 1917. He was survived by his wife and a son.[3]Rogers is buried at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[14][See Wikipedia article forfootnote references.] I am a proud member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club(UACC), The Ephemera Society of America, the Manuscript Society and theAmerican Political Items Collectors (APIC) (member name: John Lissandrello). Isubscribe to each organizations' code of ethics and authenticity is guaranteed.~Providing quality service and historical memorabilia online for over 20years.~
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