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	Biography of Theodore Roosevelt
		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.
		Roosevelt emerged spectacularly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the Northwest.
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	Edith Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne.
		Theodore Roosevelt and Edith were married in London in December 1886.
		Roosevelt came out of retirement in 1932 and gave a seconding speech on the behalf of Herbert Hoover in his bid for re-election, thus campaigning against her nephew-in-law FDR.
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	Theodore Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roosevelt was born Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., at 28 East 20th Street in the modern-day Gramercy section of New York City on October 27, 1858, the second of four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.
		Roosevelt's influence on the White House is seen today in the famed West Wing, which he had built to replace the cramped office in the main body of the building which formerly housed the presidents.
		Roosevelt was baptized in the family's church, part of the Reformed Church in America; he attended the Madison Square Presbyterian Church until the age of 16.
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	Today in History: February 3
		Edith Roosevelt presided over this lively household with quiet grace and humor, while her husband continued to write and publish histories and biographies, and to pursue a career of public service.
		A Progressive Republican, Roosevelt was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President William McKinley; led the volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War; served as governor of New York; and won the office of vice president, campaigning to a landslide victory with President William McKinley.
		Roosevelt's close relationship with his children is suggested by an illustrated letter of July 11, 1890, written to his three-year-old son Theodore, Jr., featured in the exhibition American Treasures of the Library of Congress, as well as in the American Memory collection Words and Deeds in American History.
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	National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
		Roosevelt was born Edith Kermit Carow on August 6, 1861 in Norwich, Connecticut.
		Roosevelt attended to the nation’s business, the First Lady was responsible for the upbringing and discipline of six children, all under the age of 18.
		Roosevelt made several trips abroad, as well as continuing her longtime support of the Needlework Guild and charitable efforts in providing clothing for the poor.
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		Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne.
		Roosevelt came out of retirement in 1932 and gave a seconding speech on the behalf of Herbert Hoover in his bid for re-election, thus campaigning against her nephew-in-law Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
		Edith Roosevelt had never liked her niece Eleanor Roosevelt and this was a great opportunity for Edith to retaliate for the past hard feelings against Eleanor and her husband Franklin.
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	SparkNotes: Theodore Roosevelt: Important Terms, People, and Events
		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.
		Conservatives accused Roosevelt of having caused the panic with his Progressive policies while Roosevelt countered that it was the excessive wealth of the plutocracy that had caused it.
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	American President
		Edith arranged for the china from the past twenty-five administrations to be displayed in cabinets along a ground floor hallway where guests stood in line to meet the first couple.
		Edith also used her "cabinet meetings" to release her schedule of entertainments so that she would not be upstaged.
		Roosevelt," a title she preferred to that of "First Lady." To that end, she encouraged Teddy Roosevelt to take time from his busy work schedule to rest and worked to keep her children out of the public eye.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/theodoreroosevelt/firstlady (980 words)

	First Ladies' Biographical Information
		Edith Roosevelt was the opposite, in nature, from her ebullient and outgoing husband: she was reserved, even aloof, and could use her manner to indicate her disapproval.
		Edith also underscored her husbandâs tendency to talk too long by tapping the table with her finger, causing his flow of words to cease.
		Edith allowed her office to be used by the State Department for secret letters to be passed between the President and Cecil Spring-Rice, a close personal friend and the English ambassador to Russia.
	www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=26 (0 words)

	American Experience \| The Presidents \| Theodore Roosevelt \| PBS
		Edith even moved with her family to London where she and Theodore were finally married in a quiet ceremony on December 2, 1886.
		Edith and Theodore went to live in the hilltop house at Oyster Bay, which he renamed ''Sagamore Hill.'' Sagamore was an Abnaki Indian word for ''chieftain.'' Alice, Theodore's three-year-old daughter, was finally brought to live with her father, but both Theodore and Edith acted as if her real mother had never existed.
		Roosevelt thought that this was going to be the way of war in the future, and he never believed that there would be the kind of terror and horror and bloodshed that finally occurred in 1914 and '15.
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	Edith Roosevelt: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Theodore roosevelt (october 27, 1858-january 6, 1919) was the twenty-fifth (1901) vice president and the twenty-sixth (1901-1909)...
		Theodore Roosevelt and Edith were married in London London quick summary:
		Edith Bolling Wilson[For more, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	Pine Knot-Theodore Roosevelt's Presidential Retreat by the Theodore Roosevelt Association
		At the beginning of Roosevelt's first full term as President his wife Edith wanted a place where she and the President could get away from public life and enjoy the kinds of recreation appealing to them both.
		The Roosevelt's friendship with two bachelor brothers, Joseph and William Wilmer, owners of the Albemarle County, VA estates of "Round Top" and "Plain Dealing", influenced the choice of location for the retreat.
		In addition to Edith's initial visit to inspect the property prior to the purchase, she and the President made 8 visits here, usually lasting from 2 to 6 days, before he left office in 1909.
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	Edith Roosevelt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Edith Carow Roosevelt was the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt, who served as president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
		She married Theodore Roosevelt in 1886, two years after his first wife Alice's death, putting the tragedy behing them, and they settled down in a house on Sagamore Hill, at Oyster Bay.
		Roosevelt lived almost 30 years after her husband's death in 1919.
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	Exhibits at the National First Ladies' Library
		Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, of an old New York family and Theodore Roosevelt’s second wife, was a quiet, intelligent, well read woman, who exerted great power over her husband, her family and her staff.
		Roosevelt also created the First Ladies’ Gallery of portraits (adding her own portrait in 1902) and provided a permanent home for the pieces of past Presidential china.
		Edith Wilson proved to be as devoted a partner to her husband as Ellen had been.
	www.firstladies.org /exhibit-progressive-age.htm (0 words)

	Theodore Roosevelt and Youngs Memorial Cemetery: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
		Ethel Roosevelt Derby whose legacy was the preservation of Sagamore Hill, died in 1977 and was buried along side her husband, Dr. Richard Derby.
		Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son, a World War I Army Air Corps pilot died in combat in 1918 and was buried where his plane was shot down German occupied France outside the rural village of Chamery, near Reims.
		Alice Roosevelt Longworth died at the age of 96 in 1980 and was buried next to her daughter, Paulina Sturm, at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington D.C. Ted Jr.’s wife, Eleanor and Kermit’s wife Belle along with several of Theodore Roosevelt’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren are also memorialized at Youngs Cemetery.
	www.nps.gov /sahi/youngs.htm (623 words)

	Explore DC: Edith Roosevelt
		Edith Kermit Roosevelt grew up in the same neighborhood with her future husband and was in fact was a close friend of Theodore's younger sister Corinne.
		Edith was extremely organized, as she had to be running a large and boisterous household, but was also intelligent and an avid reader.
		Edith also worked hard to ensure that her family had some measure of privacy during their time at the White House.
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	Kermit and Belle Roosevelt Papers (Library of Congress)
		The papers of the Kermit and Belle Roosevelt received by the Library between 1954 and 1973 were processed and described by Grover Batts and Thelma Queen in 1977.
		In the correspondence exchanged with his brother, Theodore Roosevelt, there are references to political and economic affairs in Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands, where Theodore served as governor from 1929 to 1932 and governor- general from 1932 to 1933.
		Roosevelt in 1944 and her efforts to memorialize her husband through the creation of a lecture fund and dedication of a cemetery gate at Fort Richardson, Alaska.
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	The Modern Library \| Authors \| John Irving
		Finding information on Edith and her life was very difficult - things were not archived and were hard to find.
		At Harvard, I researched the available TR archives and found letters that Edith had written to her children and to her sister in Italy.
		In addition, Edith's children and grandchildren were very excited for the stories to be told.
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	Index to Titles. Bartleby.com
		The Battle with the Slum, by Jacob Riis.
		A Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt, by John Wheelock.
		Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, by Theodore Roosevelt.
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	Pine Knot
		President Roosevelt's first visit to Pine Knot occurred on June 9, 1905, and as described in Teddy's letter to his son, Kermit, he found it to be "a perfectly delightful little place." During that weekend, he rustled up a breakfast of fried eggs and bacon and later surprised his wife by cooking up two chickens.
		Edith kept such evening security details a secret from her husband, who would have been upset had he known.
		There were three rooms upstairs: Edith and Teddy slept in the west bedroom with one fireplace; the two girls slept in the center room in which the stairwell entered; and the three boys slept in the east bedroom with the other fireplace.
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	Edith Wharton Biography and List of Works - Edith Wharton Books
		Born Edith Newbold Jones, to a wealthy New York family, Edith combined her insights into the privileged classes with her natural wit to write novels and short fiction which are notable for their humor and incisiveness.
		Between 1900 and 1938, Wharton wrote many novels, starting in 1905 with the publication of the The House of Mirth, a story that attacked the aristocratic society of which she was a most prominent member.
		Wharton was friend and confidant of many gifted intellectuals of her time: Theodore Roosevelt, F Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway were all guests of hers at one time or another.
	www.biblio.com /authors/145/Edith_Wharton_Biography.html (0 words)

	Edith Roosevelt - wife of Theodore Roosevelt
		Edith was born into an environment of breeding, comfort and tradition.
		Edith's presence was indelible and she was very much a force in shaping Theodore's outlook and actions.
		First Lady Edith Roosevelt played the major role in overseeing the largest renovation of the White House into the stately and practical government center it is today.
	www.theodoreroosevelt.org /life/familytree/Edith.htm (0 words)

	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.
		Edith and Theodore had five children; Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock and Quentin, a flyer who died in World War I. Edith had a advantage over previous First Ladies in that she received a lot of public exposure prior to being First Lady.
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	EDITH ROOSEVELT: MODERN FIRST LADY
		Edith was Theodore Roosevelt's second wife, but may well have been his first choice.
		Edith claimed that, before Theodore went to Harvard, he proposed marriage to her.
		He once told a friend that Edith was "better read" and that he valued her judgment and came to depend on her advice.
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	Presidents and Their First Ladies, Dramatically Speaking: Theodore and Edith Roosevelt - Palm Beach County Library ...
		The United States needed a strong leader, and with Theodore Roosevelt at the helm, the nation rose to prominence in the first decade of the 20th Century.
		Affectionately known as “Thee” by his second wife and childhood acquaintance, Edith helped her husband through a tumultuous two terms in the White House.
		The years Theodore and Edith spent as President and First Lady come to life in an exciting dramatic performance featuring the veteran acting and writing team of husband and wife, William and Sue Wills.
	www.pbclibrary.org /story-troosevelt.htm (205 words)

	Biography of Edith Roosevelt
		Putting tragedy behind him, he and Edith were married in London in December 1886.
		Roosevelt meant to guard the privacy of a family that attracted everyone's interest, and she tried to keep reporters outside her domain.
		The public, in consequence, heard little of the vigor of her character, her sound judgment, her efficient household management.
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	Old Orchard Museum: Home of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. : Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sagamore Hill was also the home of her mother-in-law and Theodore Roosevelt's widow, Edith Roosevelt who would continue to live there until she died in 1948.
		As it was finished, the home was richly decorated with mementos of Ted Jr.'s public career as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, governor of the Philippines and Puerto Rico and with items from their many travels and adventures.
		Exhibits on family life at Sagamore Hill and its history as a "Summer White House," and Edith Kermit Roosevelt are in the former living room.
	www.nps.gov /sahi/oom.htm (556 words)

	The White House Historical Association > Picturing the President's House
		Roosevelt managed a family of six, the White House, and her energetic husband.
		Edith Roosevelt hosted garden parties, dinners, dances, receptions, and ladies’ teas.
		Roosevelt gracefully sits on a white bench with the colonial gardens of the White House behind.
	www.whitehousehistory.org /04/subs_pph/PresidentDetail.aspx?ID=26&imageID=178 (103 words)

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