Theodore roosevelt interesting facts

Theodore Roosevelt Event Timeline

Theodore Roosevelt (26) Event Timeline

09/14/190103/04/1909

06/18/1900

Nomination for Vice Presidency

11/06/1900

Election Day

1901

09/06/1901

President McKinley shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY, while Roosevelt is hiking in the Adirondacks.

09/14/1901

Theodore Roosevelt Takes Office following the death of William McKinley; youngest person to take office as president.

10/16/1901

President Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House.  Southerners are upset by what is said to be “an intended insult to the South. . . and as a threat of social equality. . . “ (Washington Times, 10/19/1901)  An initial report was that this dinner signalled that the President would “make somewhat more vigorous mention in his message to Congress of lynch and mob law than have his predecessors.” (Washington Times, 10/18/1901)

11/18/1901

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty signed with Great Britain, giving the US the right to create and control an Isthmian canal. Abrogated Clayton

Theodore Roosevelt

  • NAME: Theodore Roosevelt
  • NICKNAMES: T.R., Trustbuster
  • BORN: October 27, 1858, in New York City, New York
  • DIED: January 6, 1919, in Oyster Bay, New York
  • TIME IN OFFICE: September 14, 1901, to March 3, 1909
  • VICE PRESIDENT: Charles Warren Fairbanks
  • POLITICAL PARTY: Republican

EARLY LIFE

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Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, to a wealthy New York family. During his childhood, Roosevelt had asthma and was often sick, so he went to school at home. Finally his father encouraged him to improve his health through physical exercise. By the time Roosevelt attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was fit enough to compete in the college’s boxing program. Roosevelt graduated with honors, married, and became a member of New York’s state assembly. 

Then tragedy struck. Roosevelt’s mother and wife both died from illnesses on Valentine’s Day in 1884. Roosevelt moved to the western United States and worked as a cowboy and a rancher. That’s when he devel

Theodore Roosevelt

President of the United States from 1901 to 1909

This article is about the president of the United States. For other people with the same name, see Theodore Roosevelt (disambiguation).

Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt in 1904

In office
September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909
Vice President
Preceded byWilliam McKinley
Succeeded byWilliam Howard Taft
In office
March 4, 1901 – September 14, 1901
PresidentWilliam McKinley
Preceded byGarret Hobart
Succeeded byCharles W. Fairbanks
In office
January 1, 1899 – December 31, 1900
LieutenantTimothy L. Woodruff
Preceded byFrank S. Black
Succeeded byBenjamin Barker Odell Jr.
In office
April 19, 1897 – May 10, 1898
PresidentWilliam McKinley
Preceded byWilliam McAdoo
Succeeded byCharles Herbert Allen
In office
May 6, 1895 – April 19, 1897
Appointed byWilliam Lafayette Strong
Preceded byJames J. Martin
Succeeded byFrank Moss
In office
January 1, 1882 – December 31

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