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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Concise Biography, History & Facts About President Theodore Roosevelt
Twenty-Sixth President - Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Lifespan: 1858 - 1919
Place of Birth - October 27, 1858 in New York
Education - Harvard College (graduated 1880)
Theodore Roosevelt Term as President - 1901-1909
Political Party - Republican 
Vice President / Vice Presidents - Charles W Fairbanks
Religion - Reformed Dutch
Theodore Roosevelt, Military Experience - served in the Spanish-American War
Name of Wife - Married on October 27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee (1861–1884) and married his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow (1861–1948), on December 2, 1886

Theodore Roosevelt had 6 Children - Alice Lee (1884–1980), Theodore (1887–1944), Kermit (1889–1943), Ethel Carow (1891–1977), Archibald Bulloch (1894–1979), Quentin (1897–1918)
Career of Theodore Roosevelt - Author, Lawyer, Politician, Statesman
Member of New York State Assembly, 1882-84
Member of Civil Service Commission, 1889-95
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1895-97
Governor of New York, 1898-1900
Vice President, 1901 (under McKinley)
Place of Death - Theodore Roosevelt died on
January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York
Theodore Roosevelt was buried in Young’s Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay

Next President: President William Taft

Major Events during his presidency

  • Panama Canal Rights Acquired (1904)

  • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904-1905)
  • The "Square Deal" domestic program
  • Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
  • Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
  • San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
  • Won Nobel Peace Prize (1906)
  • Panic of 1907

Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was President Theodore Roosevelt

  • Description of President Theodore Roosevelt - Height 5 feet 8.5 inches

  • Theodore Roosevelt Nicknames: "Teddy"; "Trust Buster"; "TR"
  • Teddy Roosevelt was frail and sickly as a boy
  • His mother and his wife died in the same house on the same day
  • Theodore Roosevelt volunteered as commander of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, known as the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War (1898)
  • Theodore Roosevelt Age at Inauguration - 42 years old
  • Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to use the media to appeal directly to the people
  • Roosevelt was know as the "Trust Buster" and the "Great Conservationist."
  • Theodore Roosevelt Age at Death - 60 years old
  • A 60-foot (18 m) sculpture of his head is carved into Mount Rushmore
  • Teddy Roosevelt was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1906)
  • Theodore Roosevelt had a guinea pig named Father O'Grady and a snake named Emily Spinach
  • The teddy bear was named after President Theodore Roosevelt
  • Keen on preserving the environment allocated 200 million acres for national forests
  • Teddy Roosevelt advocated the US entry into World War I
  • Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was Theodore Roosevelt

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