Presidents of the United States of America
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26 - Theodore Roosevelt
Personal Statistics:
Birth Date: October 27, 1858
Birthplace: Family brownstone, 28 East 20th Street, New York City, New York
Father: Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (1831-1878)
Mother: Martha Bulloch (1834-1884)
Height at Prime: About 5 feet 8 inches
Physical Description: Robust, barrel chest, bull neck, cleft chin, wide-set blue eyes, cropped brown hair, mustache
Religion: Dutch Reformed
1st Wife: Alice Hathaway Lee (July 29, 1861 – February 14, 1884)
1st Marriage Date: October 27, 1880
1st Marriage Place: Unitarian Church, Brookline, Massachusetts
Children: Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980)
2nd Wife: Edith Kermit Carow (August 6, 1861 – September 30, 1948)
2nd Marriage Date: December 2, 1886
2nd Marriage Place: St. George’s Church of Hanover Square, London, England
Children:
-- Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (September 13, 1887 – July 12, 1944)
-- Kermit Roosevelt (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943)
-- Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby (August 13, 1891 – December 10, 1977)
-- Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt (April 9, 1894 – October 13, 1979)
-- Quentin Roosevelt (November 19, 1897 – July 14, 1918)
Death Date: January 6, 1919
Place of Death: Sagamore Hill estate, Oyster Bay, New York
Cause of Death: Coronary embolism
Final Words: “James, will you please put out the light.â€
Burial Place: Young’s Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York
Professional Statistics:
New York State Assemblyman (1882-1884)
Member of U.S. Civil Service Commission (1889-1895)
President of New York City Police Board (1895-1897)
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1897-1898)
Commander of the Rough Riders in Spanish-American War (1898)
Governor of New York (1898-1900)
Vice President of the United States (1901)
26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
Political Party: Republican
His Vice President: Charles Warren Fairbanks (1905-1909)
Events During Presidency:
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary and Big Stick Diplomacy
Anthracite Coal Strike (1902)
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Antitrust Policy
Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Conservation Movement
Panic of 1907
Gentleman’s Agreement (1907)
Oklahoma admitted to the Union (1907)
