Theodore roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt, bynames Teddy Roosevelt and TR, (born October 27, 1858, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, New York), 26th The early years Roosevelt was the second of four children born into a socially prominent family of Dutch and English ancestry; his father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., was a noted businessman and philanthropist, and his mother, Martha Bulloch of Georgia, came from a wealthy, slave-owning plantation family. In frail health as a boy, Roosevelt was educated by private tutors. From boyhood he displayed intense, wide-ranging Elected with McKinley, Roosevelt chafed at his powerless office until September 14, 1901, when McKinley died after being shot by an assassin and he became president. Six weeks short of his 43rd birthday, Roosevelt was the youngest person ever to enter the presidency. Although he promised teddy bear fad soon swept the nation. His young children romped on the White House lawn, and the marriage of his daughter Alice in 1905 to Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio became the biggest social event of the decade. From what he called the presidency’s “bully pulpit,” Roosevelt gave speeches aimed at raising public Above all, Roosevelt relished the power of the office and viewed the presidency as an outlet for his unbounded energy. He was a proud and been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have h...

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was born into a wealthy New York family in 1858. He was a sickly child who grew up determined to improve his health and stamina through a dedicated regimen of exercise: boxing, rowing, and hunting. He graduated from Harvard in 1880 and started at Columbia Law School, but dropped out in order to run for office. (His niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, would go on to marry his distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt and become First Lady of the United States in the 1930s.) 1 ^1 1 start superscript, 1, end superscript As president, Roosevelt was a proponent of an increased American presence in Latin America and the Pacific. He believed that the United States should boast a powerful army and navy, whose very existence would deter potential threats. "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far," he said frequently. 4 ^4 4 start superscript, 4, end superscript Roosevelt advocated even more American intervention in the affairs of Latin America when he announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which stipulated that the United States would intervene in the financial affairs of Latin America whenever necessary in order to prevent European nations from having any form of economic hold over them. 6 ^6 6 start superscript, 6, end superscript Responding to pressures from the American public (who had read with horror The Jungle, which went into nauseating detail about the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry), Roosevelt threw his sup...

Theodore Roosevelt at 25, wearing a cowboy outfit from his time working in the Dakotas, 1883. Born and raised in Other American presidents embraced Roosevelt’s brand of rugged American manliness. President READ MORE: 2. He Was The First US President to Win a Nobel Peace Prize Although Roosevelt was famously aggressive in his foreign policy (he famously said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick”), he also proved to be a skilled diplomat. When Russia went to war with Japan in 1904, Roosevelt offered his services as an arbitrator. After initial resistance, both sides came to the bargaining table in When Germany and France almost went to war over the political division of Morocco, Roosevelt stepped in again and brokered an agreement that saved face for each nation involved. Some historians believe the 1906 deal 3. He Passed Laws For Clean Meat Following the publication of Upton Sinclair’s best-seller “ When word got back of disgusting conditions at meatpacking plants—including wildly unsanitary butchering facilities and near-rotten meat labeled as fresh—Roosevelt pressured Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. Both laid the groundwork for the creation of the Food and Drug Administration in 1930. READ MORE: 4. He Spared a Bear And Inspired The Teddy Bear A 1950s teddy bear sitting with its tag describing the origin of the toy and US president Theodore Roosevelt. In 1902, Roosevelt was invited on a bear-hunting trip to Mississippi but s...