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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. 1858 - 1919

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on October 27, 1858 in NY to Martha Stewart (Bulloch) Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Sr, and had siblings Anna Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, and Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson. He married Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt on October 27, 1880, and they were married until Alice's death on February 14, 1884. They had a child Alice Lee (Roosevelt) Longworth. He also married Edith Kermit (Carow) Roosevelt on December 2, 1886, and they were married until Theodore's death on January 6, 1919. They had children Theodore Roosevelt III, Kermit Roosevelt, Ethel Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, and Quentin Roosevelt I.

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    After President William McKinley was assassinated in September of 1901, 6 months into his second term, Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him to become the 26th President of the United States. A Republican, he is usually ranked as one of the 5 best Presidents. He was awarded the Medal of Honor (he led the Rough Riders in the Spanish American War after resigning as the Asst Secretary of the Navy) and a Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 (for successfully brokering an end to the Russo-Japanese War). A lifelong naturalist, Roosevelt made conservation a top priority for his administration, and established many new national parks, monuments and forests. He championed the Square Deal set of domestic policies which promised citizens fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. A champion of progressive policies continuing into his 2nd term, he started construction on the Panama Canal and generally focused on Central America in his foreign policies. After his two first terms, he founded the Bull Moose Party (which called for wide-ranging progressive reforms) and ran again for President in 1912. Splitting the vote, he lost and Democrat Woodrow Wilson won.
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    1858

    Birthday

    October 27, 1858
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    NY
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Caucasian, of Dutch Scottish Scots-Irish English ancestry with small amounts of German, Welsh, and French.

  • Nationality & Locations

    United States

  • Early Life & Education

    Mostly home schooled by tutors his parents. Graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with an A.B.

  • Religious Beliefs

    Dutch Reformed Church

  • Military Service

    Service/branch: New York Army National Guard United States Army Years of service: 1882–1886, 1898 Rank: Colonel Commands: First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment Battles/wars: Spanish–American War, Battle of Las Guasimas, and Battle of San Juan Hill

  • Professional Career

    • Author • Conservationist • Explorer • Historian • Naturalist • Politician • Soldier

  • Personal Life & Family

    President of the US, Governor, Asst Secretary of the Navy
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    January 6, 1919
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    blood clot traveling into lung
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Teddy Roosevelt & cowboys 1903
Photo of Kathy Pinna Kathy Pinna
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Teddy Roosevelt & cowboys 1903
President Roosevelt's cowboy breakfast in Hugo, Colorado

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Underwood & Underwood, publisher of stereograph
Date & Place: in Hugo, Colorado USA
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Janice Henry
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09/14/2011
This same photo can be seen on Google via the Library of Congress. I do not know who the lucky cowboys are though!
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Photo of Kathy Pinna Kathy Pinna
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09/15/2011
Janice - You're so right. That's why I put "photo courtesy of the library of congress" and the publisher's name. I'm hoping that someone will recognize their grandfather or great-grandfather and have a nice surprise.
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Cowboys following Teddy Roosevelt's Train
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Cowboys following Teddy Roosevelt's Train
Cowboys following the train and cheering President Teddy Roosevelt, Hugo, Colorado

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Underwood & Underwood, stereograph publisher
Date & Place: in Hugo, Colorado USA
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President Roosevelt at Daughter's Wedding
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President Roosevelt at Daughter's Wedding
President Teddy Roosevelt and his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, at their daughter's wedding.

Ethel Carow Roosevelt (born 8/13/1891, died 12/10/1977) married Dr. Richard Derby (a surgeon) on April 4, 1913. She (a nurse) and her husband both served in France during World War 1.

During her life, Ethel Roosevelt Derby worked for civil rights and while she was a Republican, she referred to herself as a "liberal Republican."
Date & Place: in USA
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1902 Thanksgiving Proclamation Act
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01/09/2012
1902 Thanksgiving Proclamation Act
President Teddy Roosevelt signing the Thanksgiving Proclamation Act in 1902. President Franklin Roosevelt (Teddy was his cousin and Eleanor's uncle) moved Thanksgiving from the last Thursday of November to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 to give Americans more time to shop for Christmas!

The text of the Proclamation:

THANKSGIVING DAY – 1902
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION
According to the yearly custom of our people, it falls upon the President at this season to appoint a day of festival and thanksgiving to God. Over a century and a quarter has passed since this country took its place among the nations of the earth, and during that time we have had, on the whole, more to be thankful for than has fallen to the lot of any other people. Generation after generation has grown to manhood and passed away. Each has had to bear its peculiar burdens, each to face its special crisis, and each has known cares of grim trial, when the country was menaced by malice domestic or foreign levy, when the hand of the Lord was heavy upon it in drought or flood or pestilence, when in bodily distress and in anguish of soul it paid the penalty of folly and a froward heart. Nevertheless, decade by decade we have struggled onward and upward; we now abundantly enjoy material well-being, and under the favor of the Most High we are striving earnestly to achieve moral and spiritual uplifting. The year that has just closed has been one of peace and of overflowing plenty. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt thanks to the giver of Good; and we will seek to praise Him, not by words only, but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow-men.
Now, wherefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving, Thursday, the twenty-seventh of the coming November, and do recommend that throughout the land the people cease from their ordinary occupations, and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks unto Almighty God for the manifold blessings of the past year.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-seventh.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Date & Place: Not specified or unknown.
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11/21/2018
Did you know that next Thursday, the 29th, used to be Thanksgiving? This is a photo of Teddy Roosevelt signing the Thanksgiving Proclamation Act in 1902, when it was the last Thursday in November.
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11/21/2018
Would like to hear answers too . Very interested in knowing how everyone feels .
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President Roosevelt Planting a Tree
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President Roosevelt Planting a Tree
President Theodore Roosevelt plants a tree near San Jose, Cal. The caption reads "Long may it thrive!" Does anyone know if it's still there? I was born in San Jose, grew up in San Jose, and still live in San Jose - and I've never seen "President Roosevelt's tree"!

Stereograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
Date & Place: in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California USA
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10/27/2017
Happy Birthday, Mr. President! Teddy Roosevelt was born 159 years ago today .
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Photo of Michelle Cassidy Michelle Cassidy
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12/02/2020
I decided to look into where said tree might be and discovered that it wasn't actually in San Jose, but neighboring Campbell, CA. I found documentation via the Library of Congress citing President Roosevelt planted a tree near San Jose, California. The San Jose Mercury News posted an article in March 2013 entitled, Campbell History: A Tree Grows in Campbell, which speaks to this.
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Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
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01/11/2012
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11/09/2020
On this day in 1906 Theodore Roosevelt became the 1st US President to visit another country (Puerto Rico and Panama - Puerto Rico became a part of the US in 1917). Isn't it amazing that no President had gone abroad before that?
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11/09/2020
BULLY!
(well someone had to say it)
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