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Theodore Roosevelt

The Twenty-Sixth President • 1901-1909

Theodore Roosevelt

“The Giant in the Bully Pulpit”


Biographical Facts

Birth: New York, New York, October 27, 1858

Ancestry: Dutch, Scotch, English and Huguenot

Father: Theodore Roosevelt
Birth: New York, New York, September 22, 1831
Death: New York, New York, February 9, 1878
Occupations: Glass Importer; Merchant; Banker

Mother: Martha Bulloch Roosevelt
Birth: Roswell, Georgia, July 8, 1834
Death: New York, New York, February 14, 1884

Brother: Elliott Roosevelt (1860-1894)

Sisters: Anna Roosevelt (1855-1931); Corinne Roosevelt (1861-1933)

Marriage (first): Brookline, Massachusetts, October 27, 1880
Wife: Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
Birth: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, July 19, 1861
Death: New York, New York, February 14, 1884
Child: Alice Lee Roosevelt (1884-1980)

Marriage (second): London, England, December 2, 1886
Wife: Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Birth: Norwich, Connecticut, August 6, 1861
Death: Oyster Bay, New York, September 30, 1948
Children: Theodore Roosevelt (1887-1944); Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943); Ethel Carow Roosevelt (1891-1977); Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt (1894-1979); Quentin Roosevelt (1897-1918)

Religious Affiliation: Dutch Reformed Church

Education: Private Tutoring; Harvard (B.A., 1880); attended Columbia Law School

Occupations Before Presidency: Writer; Historian

Military Service: Lieutenant Colonel; Colonel, 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (Rough Riders), 1898

Prepresidential Offices: New York State Assemblyman; United States Civil Service Commissioner ; New York City Police Commissioner; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Governor of New York; United States Vice President

Inauguration Age: 42

Occupations After Presidency: Writer; Politician

Death: Oyster Bay, New York, January 6, 1919

Place of Burial: Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York



 
First Administration

Inauguration: September 14, 1901; Buffalo, New York

Secretary of State: John M. Hay

Secretary of the Treasury: Lyman J. Gage; Leslie M. Shaw (from February 1, 1902)

Secretary of War: Elihu Root; William H. Taft (from February 1, 1904)

Attorney General: Philander C. Knox; William H. Moody (from July 1, 1904)

Postmaster General: Charles E. Smith; Henry C. Payne (from January 2, 1902); Robert J. Wynne (from October 10, 1904)

Secretary of the Navy: John D. Long; William H. Moody (from May 1, 1902); Paul Morton (from July 1, 1904)

Secretary of the Interior: Ethan A. Hitchcock

Secretary of Agriculture: James Wilson

Secretary of Commerce and Labor: Oliver Wendell Holmes; Victor H. Metcalf (from July 1, 1904)

Secretary of Commerce: Oliver Wendell Holmes; Victor H. Metcalf (from July 1, 1904)

Supreme Court Appointments: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1902); William R. Day (1903)

Congress #57 (December 2, 1901-March 3, 1903):
Senate: 56 Republicans; 29 Democrats; 3 Others
House: 198 Republicans; 153 Democrats; 5 Others

Congress #58 (November 9, 1903-March 3, 1905):
Senate: 58 Republicans; 32 Democrats
House: 207 Republicans; 178 Democrats



 
Second Administration

Inauguration: March 4, 1905; The Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Vice President: Charles Warren Fairbanks

Secretary of State: John M. Hay; Elihu Root (from July 19, 1905); Robert Bacon (from January 17, 1909)

Secretary of the Treasury: Leslie M. Shaw; George G. Cortelyou (from March 4, 1907)

Secretary of War: William H. Taft; Luke E. Wright (from July 1, 1908)

Attorney General: William H. Moody; Charles J. Bonaparte (from December 17, 1906)

Postmaster General: George B. Cortelyou; George Von L. Meyer (from March 4, 1907)

Secretary of the Navy: Paul Morton; Charles J. Bonaparte (from July 1, 1905); Victor H. Metcalf (from December 17, 1906); Truman D. Newberry (from December 1, 1908)

Secretary of the Interior: Ethan A. Hitchcock; James R. Garfield (from March 4, 1907)

Secretary of Agriculture: James Wilson

Secretary of Commerce and Labor: Victor H. Metcalf; Oscar S. Straus (from December 17, 1906)

Secretary of Commerce: Victor H. Metcalf; Oscar S. Straus (from December 17, 1906)

Supreme Court Appointment: William H. Moody (1906)

Congress #59 (December 4, 1905-March 3, 1907):
Senate: 58 Republicans; 32 Democrats
House: 250 Republicans; 136 Democrats

Congress #60 (December 2, 1907-March 3, 1909):
Senate: 61 Republicans; 29 Democrats
House: 222 Republicans; 164 Democrats

State Admitted: Oklahoma (1907)


Election of 1904
CandidatesElectoral Vote Popular Vote
Theodore Roosevelt
(Republican)
336 7,626,593
Alton B. Parker
(Democratic)
140 5,082,898
Eugene V. Debs
(Socialist)
none 402,489
Silas C. Swallow
(Prohibition)
none 258,596



 
 

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