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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—USTheodore ROOSEVELT
(1858-1919)
ROOSEVELT, Theodore,
(great-great-grandson of Archibald Bulloch, nephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, father-in-law of Nicholas Longworth), a Vice
President and 26th President of the United States; born in New York
City, October 27, 1858; privately tutored; graduated from Harvard
University in 1880; studied law; traveled abroad; member, New York
State Assembly 1882-1884; moved to North Dakota and lived on his
ranch; returned to New York City in 1886; appointed by President
Benjamin Harrison a member of the United States Civil Service
Commission 1889-1895, when he resigned to become president of the
New York Board of Police Commissioners; resigned this position upon
his appointment by President William McKinley as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy 1897-1898, when he resigned to enter the war
with Spain; organized the First Regiment, United States Volunteer
Cavalry, popularly known as Roosevelt’s Rough Riders;
Governor of New York 1899-1900; elected Vice President of the
United States on the Republican ticket headed by William McKinley
in 1900 and was inaugurated March 4, 1901; upon the death of
President McKinley on September 14, 1901, became President of the
United States; elected President of the United States in 1904,
inaugurated March 4, 1905, and served until March 3, 1909;
unsuccessful candidate of the Progressive Party for President of
the United States in 1912 and 1916; engaged in literary pursuits;
died at Oyster Bay, Nassau County, N.Y., January 6, 1919; interment
in Young’s Memorial Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Blum, John Morton. The Republican Roosevelt.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977; Morris, Edmund.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Coward, McCann and
Geoghegan, 1979; Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. New York:
Random House, 2001.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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