Roosevelt, Theodore, as Twenty-sixth President

2 manuscript letters of credentials signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), written in a clerical hand, each 1 1/2 pages (14 x 10 1/2 in.; 355 x 266 mm), Washington, 2 February 1907, each countersigned by Elihu Root as Secretary of State, to [Ramon Caceres],  President of the Dominican Republic, announcing his recall of one consul and the appointment of another; lightly browned, a few spots.

See F.A. Boyle, World Politics and International Law (1985), pp. 269-271

2 manuscript letters of credentials signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), written in a clerical hand, each 1 1/2 pages (14 x 10 1/2 in.; 355 x 266 mm), Washington, 2 February 1907, each countersigned by Elihu Root as Secretary of State, to [Ramon Caceres], President of the Dominican Republic, announcing his recall of one consul and the appointment of another; lightly browned, a few spots.
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Roosevelt implements his Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

Thomas Cleland Dawson (1865-1912) served as consul to Santo Domingo from 1904 to 1907, while his successor Fenton R. McCreery (1866-1940) served from 1907 to 1909. It was in this period that the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was announced by Roosevelt in his annual message to Congress, 6 December 1904, expressing the intention of the U.S. government to intervene preemptively in the domestic affairs of Central American and Caribbean countries delinquent in the payment of their public debts to private lenders in Europe, so as to forestall European military intervention which would breach the Monroe Doctrine.

The government of the Dominican Republic had fallen into a state of international bankruptcy and was faced with the prospect of European military intervention to collect debts. According to a convention imposed by the Roosevelt administration upon the Dominican Republic in 1907, the president of the United States was authorized to appoint a General Receiver for the collection and proper administration of all Dominican customs duties revenues. This 1907 Loan Convention did not explicitly grant the United States a right to intervene in the Dominican Republic, but one article said the U.S. could provide the General Receiver with "such protection as it may find to be requisite for the performance of their duties." In 1916 President Wilson placed the Dominican Republic under military occupation over an alleged failure to fulfill the terms of this Convention.

Elihu Root (1845-1937) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912 for his extensive achievements in establishing international tribunals and arbitration agreements.