Canons

rif. 85012 — Rome GA: 1908. Typed letter signed. 1pp on Maddox's law office stationery; Sept. 6 1908; seeking appointment to the Commission for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. 27 lines ca 220 words; signed in full. With "Received" stamp of the Office of the Secretary of War dated Sep 14 1908; docketed on verso in Joseph G. Cannon's hand with a ca. 100-word endorsement of Maddox's application. Old folds; lightly browned; Very Good. Maddox a Confederate veteran and five-term Congressional Representative for Georgia 1893-1905 writes seeking appointment to the Commission in charge of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park which as part of its charter required that at least one Confederate veteran be a member: ".As you know I was a Confederate soldier; and I was in the battle of Chickamauga before I was sixteen years old. The Chickamauga Battlefield is in my old Judicial Circuit when I was Judge of the Superior Court and it is in the District which I represented in Congress for twelve years.I would certainly take great pride as I always have done heretofore in the protection and care of this great National Park and I feel that if you would be kind enough to write or tell the President who I am and what you know of me as a Representative in Congress it would go a long way in securing the appointment." On verso is Cannon's holograph statement addressed to "the President" supplying the requested recommendation: ".John W. Maddox was for several terms a Democratic member of Congress from Georgia. He was one of the most efficient members of the minority & while a good partisan had the ability & courage to distinguish between partisanship & legislature.if I had the authority I would appoint Mr. Maddox" signed "JG Cannon" dated 9/11 1908. unknown