Edwin Pope Thayer

After the death of the former Secretary of the Senate George Anderson, Edwin Thayer was nominated by a friend, Jim Watson.^[1] Thayer won the unanimous endorsement of the Republican Convention.^[1] On December 7, 1925, Thayer was appointed to the position of Secretary of the Senate.^[1]

After discovering an original copy of the Monroe Doctrine Edwin Thayer became interested in the preservation of old Senate records.^[1] He enlisted the help of Harold Hufford in storing the documents.^[1] The old Senate documents that the two organized would later become some of the first legislative documents in the National Archives.^[1]

In 1932 the Republican Party lost control of the Senate leading Thayer to lose his job as secretary.^[1] He retired from the Senate on March 4, 1933.^[1] Thayer later died in his hometown of Greenfield on February 1, 1943.^[1]