Theodore Roosevelt facts - 26th President of USA

The twenty-sixth president of the United States of America Theodore Roosevelt facts. He was born on October 27, 1858, in New York, New York.

Theodore Roosevelt Life

He was sick as a child, suffering from asthma, which often kept him away from school. He even had to sleep sitting in a chair.

In 1884, his first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, and his own mother both died on the same day. He spent most of the next two years on his ranch in the Dakota Territory and he consequently became physically stronger.

Theodore Roosevelt Marriage

He married his second wife, Edith Carow in December of 1886. In all, Roosevelt had six children. This is the Teddy Roosevelt family.

Theodore Roosevelt Career

Roosevelt became a lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment and became a war hero. He became the Governor of New York State in 1898.

President Theodore Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt became the twenty-sixth president of the United States of America. When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, he was the youngest president in the history of the U.S. He broadened the executive power of his position.

Roosevelt worked to dissolve trusts, most importantly a great railroad company. He ensured the construction of the Panama Canal in 1904 by the United States. He felt that this was his greatest international accomplishment. He also worked hard for land conservation and added national forests. His presidency ended in 1909. He tried again to become president in 1912 with the Progressive Party but was beaten by Woodrow Wilson.

During his presidency, many said that life inside the White House was like a circus. Roosevelt's two youngest sons slid down the central staircase on metal trays. On one occasion, the family's pony was brought upstairs to cheer up a sick brother. The oldest child, Alice, was controversial because she smoked in public, bet on horses, and would show off her pet snake.

Roosevelt's accomplishments

This includes his work as a naturalist, orator, historian, and writer that includes twenty-six books, a thousand magazine articles, and thousands of speeches and letters.

He will be remembered for his energy, his personality, his enthusiasm, and of course because teddy bears are named after him. Teddy has consistently been ranked by presidential scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.

Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919 in his sleep at the age of sixty. He will always be remembered.

President Theodore Roosevelt Facts

NICKNAME
Teddy

BIRTH
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City

MOTHER
Martha (Mittie) Bullock

FATHER
Theodore Roosevelt Sr.

SISTERS
Anna and Corinne

BROTHER
Elliott

MARRIAGE
First Wife: Alice Hathaway Lee October 27, 1880, in Brookline, Mass.
Second Wife: Edith Carow December 2, 1886, in London, England

CHILDREN
Alice Lee {named for Roosevelt's deceased first wife),
Theodore, Kermit, Ethel Caro, Archibald Bullock, and QuentinĂ½

EDUCATION
Harvard College, 1880

RELIGION
Dutch Reformed

PRE-PRESIDENCY PROFESSION
Writer, historian, and politician

MILITARY SERVICE
First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 1898 "Roosevelts" (Rough Riders)

POLITICAL LIFE

New York state assemblyman (1882-1884)
US Civil Service Commission (1889-1895)
New York City Police Board Commissioner (1895-1897)
Assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy (1897-1898)
Governor of New York (1898-1900)
Vice President (March -Sept. 1901)
US President two terms (Assumed the presidency upon President Mckinley's assassination)

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

INAUGURATION
September 14, 1901; Buffalo, N.Y. at the age of 42
The youngest President In U.S. History
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Address of 1905

Theodore Roosevelt Administration

PRESIDENCY
Two terms (September 14, 1901-March 4, 1909)
Declined a third term

VICE PRESIDENT
Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909)

FIRST LADY
Edith Kermit Karow Roosevelt (Roosevelt's second wife)
Facts about Edith Roosevelt
Biography of Edith Roosevelt

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1902)
William R. Day (1902)
William H. Moody (1906)

STATES ADMITTED TO THE UNION
Oklahoma (1907)

Theodore Roosevelt Cabinet
SECRETARY OF STATE
John M. hay (1901-1905), Died in office
Elihu Root (1905-1909)

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
Lyman J. Gage (1901-1902)
Leslie M. Shaw (1902-1907)
George B. Cortelyou (1907-1909)

SECRETARY OF WAR
Elihu Root (1901-1902)
William H. Taft (1904-1908)
Luke E. Wright (1908-1909)

ATTORNEY GENERAL
Philander C. Knox (1901-1904)
William H. Moody (1904-1906)
Charles J. Bonaparte (1906-1909)

POSTMASTER GENERAL
Charles E. Smith (1901-1902)
Henry C. Payne (1902-1904), Died in office
Robert J. Wynne (1904-1905)
George B. Cortelyou (1905-1907)
George Von L. Meyer (1907-1909)

SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
John D. Long (1901-1902)
William H. Moody (1902-1904)
Paul Morton (1904-1905)
Charles J. Bonaparte (1905-1906)
Victor H. Metcalf (1906-1908)
Truman H. Newberry (1908-1909)

SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
Ethan A. Hitchcock (1901-1907)
James R. Garfield (1907-1909)

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
James Wilson (1901-1913)

SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR
George B. Cortelyou, First to serve at this new cabinet post, (1903-1904)
Victor H. Metcalf (1904-1906)
Oscar. S. Straus (1906-1909)

POST PRESIDENCY LIFE

Writer, politician, and big-game hunter

DEATH
January 6, 1919, in Oyster Bay, N.Y. at the age of 60

BURIAL PLACE
Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y.

LANDMARKS
New York, N.Y. (birthplace)
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (homestead) and
Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y.
Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington D.C.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, South Dakota