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Theodore Roosevelt
Founder + Bull + Vice President
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Born
Oct 27, 1858
Hometown
New York City
Died
Jan 6, 1919
Death Place
Oyster Bay (Hamle...
Political Party
History Of The Re...
Religion
Reformed Church i...
Alma Mater
Columbia Law Scho...
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States of America. He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1858
Birth
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in a four-story brownstone at 28 East 20th Street, in the modern-day Gramercy section of New York City, the second of four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831–1878) and Martha "Mittie" Bulloch (1835–1884).
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TEENAGE
1876
17 Years Old
He matriculated at Harvard College in 1876.
1878
19 Years Old
His father's death in 1878 was a tremendous blow, but Roosevelt redoubled his activities.
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TWENTIES
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa (22nd of 177) from Harvard with an A.B. magna cum laude in 1880 and entered Columbia Law School.
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1885
26 Years Old
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In 1885, he had built Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, New York on Long Island, which was his home and estate until his death.
Returning home, he ran for mayor in 1886, finishing third with 60,000 votes.
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THIRTIES
1892
33 Years Old
Despite Roosevelt's support for Harrison's reelection bid in the presidential election of 1892, the eventual winner, Grover Cleveland (a Bourbon Democrat), reappointed him to the same post.
President Harrison appointed Roosevelt to the United States Civil Service Commission, where he served until 1895.
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1897
38 Years Old
Roosevelt had always been fascinated by naval history. Urged by Roosevelt's close friend, Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, President William McKinley appointed Roosevelt to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897.
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The war hero was elected governor in 1898 and in 1900 was nominated for vice president.
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FORTIES
1900
41 Years Old
He made such an effort to root out corruption and "machine politics" that Republican boss Thomas Collier Platt forced him on McKinley as a running mate in the 1900 election, against the wishes of McKinley's manager, Senator Mark Hanna.
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Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year.
Roosevelt helped the wellbeing of people by passing laws such as The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and The Pure Food and Drug Act.
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Roosevelt was also served as honorary president of the school health organization American School Hygiene Association from 1907 to 1908, and in 1909 he convened the first White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children.
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FIFTIES
1909
50 Years Old
In March 1909, shortly after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt left New York for a safari in east and central Africa.
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On his return in 1910 he broke bitterly with President Taft on issues of progressivism and personalities.
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In 1911, Taft responded with a vigorous stumping tour that allowed him to sign up most of the party leaders long before Roosevelt announced.
Roosevelt, stepping up his attack on judges, carried nine of the states that held preferential primaries, LaFollette took two, and Taft only one. The 1912 primaries represented the first extensive use of the presidential primary, a reform achievement of the progressive movement.
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1914
55 Years Old
When World War I began in 1914, Roosevelt strongly supported the Allies and demanded a harsher policy against Germany, especially regarding submarine warfare.
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1916
57 Years Old
In 1916, he campaigned energetically for Charles Evans Hughes and repeatedly denounced Irish-Americans and German-Americans who Roosevelt said were unpatriotic because they put the interest of Ireland and Germany ahead of America's by supporting neutrality.
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1917
58 Years Old
When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, Roosevelt sought to raise a volunteer infantry division, but Wilson refused.
Roosevelt's attacks on Wilson helped the Republicans win control of Congress in the off-year elections of 1918.
LATE ADULTHOOD
For the rest of his life, Roosevelt never spoke of his wife Alice publicly or privately and did not write about her in his autobiography. As late as 1919, when Roosevelt was working with Joseph Bucklin Bishop on a biography that included a collection of his letters, Roosevelt did not mention either his first or second marriage, which took place in London.
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