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  Roosevelt, Theodore. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Roosevelt’s interest was drawn to politics, and while serving (1882–84) in the New York state legislature as a Republican, he strongly opposed the nomination of James G. Blaine for the U.S. presidency.
Roosevelt virtually dictated the nomination of his presidential successor, William Howard Taft; after an African big-game expedition and a triumphal tour of European cities, Roosevelt returned (1910) to the United States and joined the campaign for the direct primary in New York.
Roosevelt led his followers out of the convention, organized the Progressive party—also called the Bull Moose party—and was nominated for President on this third-party slate.
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 Theodore Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Theodore Roosevelt II (October 27, 1858–January 6, 1919) was the twenty-fifth (1901) Vice President and the twenty-sixth (1901-1909) President of the United States, succeeding to the office upon the assassination of William McKinley.
Roosevelt was born in New York City, October 27, 1858 to Theodore Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch.
Theodore Roosevelt is the only President of the United States to have been awarded the Medal of Honor (awarded in 2000) for his Heroism at Kettle hill in the Spanish-American War (1898) as well as the Nobel Peace Prize for his ending the Russo-Japanese War with the historic Treaty of Portsmouth of 1904.
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 Theodore Roosevelt - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858–January 6, 1919) was the twenty-fifth (1901) Vice President and the twenty-sixth (1901-1909) President of the United States, succeeding to the office upon the assassination of William McKinley.
Roosevelt was one of the youngest U.S. vice presidents in history (John C. Breckinridge being younger than him.) Roosevelt found the vice presidency unfulfilling and thought he had little future in politics, and considered going to law school after leaving office.
Roosevelt died at Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York on January 6, 1919 of a coronary embolism at the age of only 60, and was buried in Young's Memorial Cemetery.
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 SparkNotes: Theodore Roosevelt: Important Terms, People, and Events
Roosevelt's uncle James Bulloch served as an admiral in the Confederate Navy and was responsible for building the ship in Great Britain.
Roosevelt died at Sagamore Hill on January 5, 1919, and was buried near the house.
Roosevelt, appointed to be the head of this commission by President Benjamin Harrison in 1888, kept the post until 1895.
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 Roosevelt, Theodore on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Roosevelt's interest was drawn to politics, and while serving (1882-84) in the New York state legislature as a Republican, he strongly opposed the nomination of James G. Blaine for the U.S. presidency.
Roosevelt virtually dictated the nomination of his presidential successor, William Howard Taft ; after an African big-game expedition and a triumphal tour of European cities, Roosevelt returned (1910) to the United States and joined the campaign for the direct primary in New York.
Roosevelt led his followers out of the convention, organized the Progressive party —also called the Bull Moose party—and was nominated for President on this third-party slate.
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 Theodore Roosevelt - dKosopedia
During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment, which he led on a charge at the battle of San Juan.
As President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none.
His Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine prevented the establishment of foreign bases in the Caribbean and arrogated the sole right of intervention in Latin America to the United States.
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 Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt further bucked the conservative leadership by cooperating with the Democratic governor Grover Cleveland and opposing the presidential nomination of James G. Blaine at the Republican convention in 1884.
Roosevelt drew the ire of the Tammany Hall and many German immigrants by enforcing an often ignored law requiring the closure of beer halls on Sundays.
Roosevelt was initially reluctant, but quickly realized that he had no base in the Republican Party and that his only hope for the presidency would come by exposure on a national ticket.
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 Theodore Roosevelt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Graduating from Harvard in 1880, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee and the next year was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he became a leader among the minority of Republicans who pressed for social reform through government regulation.
Roosevelt was determined to add this symbol of the American West to his trophy collection before it became extinct, and despite punishing weather, he stayed in the field until he accomplished his goal.
Roosevelt opposed Taft for the party's presidential nomination in 1912, and when he was outmaneuvered at the convention, ran as the candidate of the newly formed Progressive Party.
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 About Theodore Roosevelt
His father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., a partner in a prosperous family glass-importing firm, was a buoyant, dominant man with a self-described "troublesome conscience." He imbued his son with an acute sense of civic and moral responsibility.
As a youth Theodore Roosevelt was frail, asthmatic, and nearsighted.
In foreign affairs, Theodore Roosevelt's legacy is judicious support of the national interest and promotion of world stability through the maintenance of a balance of power; creation or strengthening of international agencies, and resort to their use when practicable; and implicit resolve to use military force, if feasible, to foster legitimate American interests.
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 PBS - THE WEST - Theodore Roosevelt
In 1905, Roosevelt gave Pinchot responsibility for administering this vast domain, as head of the newly organized U.S. Forest Service, and ushered in the modern era of western land management, which aims at sustained efficient use of natural resources rather than exploitation and development.
Roosevelt initiated similar sweeping change in the West with his support of the National Reclamation Act (or Newlands Act) of 1902, which gave the federal government primary responsibility for dam construction and irrigation projects.
Roosevelt also extended federal control over the scenic wonders of the West, using the 1906 Antiquities Act, which had been intended to preserve historic landmarks, to set aside 800,000 acres in Arizona as the Grand Canyon National Monument.
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 American President
Frail and sickly as a boy, Teddy Roosevelt (born in 1858) developed a rugged physique as a teenager and became a lifelong advocate of exercise and the "strenuous life." After graduating from Harvard, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee and studied law for a year at Columbia.
Roosevelt was also the nation's first environmentalist, setting aside 190 million acres for national forests, coal and water reserves, and wildlife refuges.
Roosevelt subscribed to the racist and imperialistic view that people of color were a "burden" that the white man must carry as part of his Christian duty.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
Roosevelt resolved not to be defeated by his illness and pushed himself to excel both physically and academically.
Roosevelt led the "Rough Riders" in a bold charge to capture San Juan Hill in Cuba on July 1, 1898.
Roosevelt took advantage of the conflict to persuade Panama to allow the United States to build and operate a canal through the narrow strip of land that joined North and South America.
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 1908 Saint-Gaudens $20 Cold Piece - Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelts Biography
Roosevelt had the severe misfortune of losing both his wife and his mother on the same day.
Upon his return, Roosevelt was elected to a two-year term as governor of the state of New York the same year.
Roosevelt tried to leave politics after his terms ended, but he could not stay away for long.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth - daughter of Theodore Roosevelt
Infant Alice was born only two days before her mother died of Bright's disease, a kidney ailment that had not been diagnosed as it was masked by the pregnancy.
Alice was good at "mothering" the younger children, but she herself was "allergic to discipline."
The color, "Alice Blue" was highly fashionable, a light blue with a hint of gray to match her eyes.
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 The Early Years of Theodore Roosevelt
Well, Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27th in 1858 to his loving parents Theodore and Martha and to his anxious older sister Anna in New York.
In the 1884 presidential election, the young Roosevelt was one of the delegates in the Republican convention.
Roosevelt was an avid journal keeper, but on February 14th, 1884, his journal was marked simply with a large X. In March his sister Anna pushed that Roosevelt build a house for his daughter to grow up in.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth - Theodore Roosevelt's Daughter - Roosevelt Almanac
Widely known as the "other Washington Monument" and "Princess Alice", this rambunctious, independent, and irreverent American social icon once described her father as an individual who wanted to be "the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral".
In return, President Roosevelt once described his first child's irreverence by remarking that he could control the affairs of state, or control Alice, but could not possibly do both.
Alice, the only child of T.R. and his first wife Alice Hathaway Lee, was affectionately referred to by her siblings as "Sister".
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 Outspoken Alice: Every inch a Roosevelt
Alice, the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, was born in 1884.
Alice’s stepmother, Edith, often reminded her that the names of women with “upbringing” appeared in the newspapers only to note their birth, marriage or death.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth died in February 1980 at the age of 96.
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 Alice Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861-1884), the first wife of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980), the only child of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice (Hathaway) Lee Roosevelt.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Education World ® : Great Sites For Teaching About: Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Roosevelt's personal life was every bit as interesting and varied as his public life.
In 1897, Theodore Roosevelt agreed to serve as assistant secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley.
In 1898, the Republican Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for governor of New York, hoping that the decorated war hero, with his reputation as a reformer, would cause the voters to ignore a series of recent party scandals.
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 Timeline of Theodore Roosevelt's Life by the Theodore Roosevelt Association
TR's mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt dies of typhoid fever; hours later, in the same house on 57th Street, TR's wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also dies from Bright's disease - a chronic kidney infection which had been masked by her pregnancy.
He had originally planned the home with his wife Alice, and was planning to name it Leeholm in honor of her family name.
Roosevelt's requests permission of President Wilson to raise, equip and lead volunteer division for service in France in World War I. "Peace is not the end.
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Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United states Was the youngest President in the nations history.
Roosevelt was one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war.
Roosevelt emerged spectacurlarly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the northwest.
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 Theodore Roosevelt on Film - Timeline of Theodore Roosevelt's Life - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Alice Lee comes to live with them in May.
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt) Prints & Photographs Div., Library of Congress.
Theodore Roosevelt's Diary entries, on the most tragic times of his life.
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 Bully, With John Davidson
October 27, Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee.
September 14, upon the assassination of President McKinley in Buffalo, N.Y. Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the 26th President, the youngest man ever to reach that office, 42years, 10 months, 18 days.
Roosevelt obtains the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Reclamation Act and Employer's Liability Laws; above all, he strenuously concentrates his efforts on conservation, and the establishment of preserves for future generations.
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 Where Learning is Larger Than Life. Presidents Park is Williamsburg's newest educational museum featuring magnificent ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
His wife Alice died following the birth of their daughter; his mother died of typhoid fever the same day, February 14, 1884.
Roosevelt was stricken with polio at the age of 39.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt who gave her away in marriage, was an acclaimed social activist and advocate for those less fortunate.
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 EDITH ROOSEVELT
Edith Kermit Carow was born in Norwich, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles and Gertrude Elizabeth Carow, however she was raised in Union Square, New York.
Alice died at the age of twenty-one during childbirth and Roosevelt laid her memory to rest and never permitted her name to be mentioned in the family again.
Their daughter, Alice was married in the East Room of the White House, with Edith providing quite a lavish reception.
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 IPL POTUS -- Theodore Roosevelt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Children: Alice Lee Roosevelt (1884-1980); Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Written by his great-grandson and hosted by the Theodore Roosevelt Association, this biography includes links to additional documents to expand upon topics in TR's life.
An essay by Daniel Filler on the environmental stance of Roosevelt and the impact that stance had on the rest of the nation.
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 Roosevelt, Theodore - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (1901-9), b.
Roosevelt's interest was drawn to politics, and while serving (1882-84) in the New York state legislature as a Republican, he strongly opposed the nomination of James G. Blaine
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 Theodore Roosevelt-Related Web Links: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A reprint of the December 1906 Farm Journal article: Theodore Roosevelt as a Farmer along with maps and diagrams of the Roosevelt garden.
Includes Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, TR at the globe in his White House office, stereographs of him giving a speech and with John Muir at Yosemite.
A walk in the woods with Alice Lee and a statement of Roosevelt's affection for her.
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 Theodore Roosevelt - 25th President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt - 25th President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt: Conservation as the Guardian of Democracy by Daniel Filler
The Boys of '98 : Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
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