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Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858-1919) · United States · Politicians · Died at 60

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At 42, the youngest president in U.S. history, he walked into the White House after an assassination and turned it into a bully pulpit for trust-busting, conservation, and naval power - a sickly child who remade himself through what he called 'the strenuous life' and never stopped swinging.

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1986Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval HistoryNamed after him1967Theodore Roosevelt AwardNamed after him, American collegiate athletics award1966Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic SiteNamed after him2 November 1966, Home of Ansley Wilcox and site of Theodore Roosevelt's first presidential inauguration1939Equestrian statue of Theodore RooseveltTribute, sculpture in New York City by James Earle Fraser1932Theodore Roosevelt IslandNamed after him21 May 1932, island and a national memorial located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.1921Theodore Roosevelt, Rough RiderTribute, Bronze sculpture by Alexander Phimister Proctor1919Died6 January 19191917David Livingstone Centenary MedalAward1910Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of MexicoAward1906Nobel Peace PrizeAward1901President of the United StatesOffice1901-1909Vice President of the United StatesOffice1899Governor of New YorkOffice1899-19001897“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand.”In their words7 June 1897Letter to John Hay, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, London, written in Washington, DC (June 7, 1897)

“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”In their wordsJanuary 1897"How Not To Better Social Conditions" in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39 · Full text online (with at least two typos - in the last

Assistant Secretary of the NavyOffice1897-18981891“Of recent years... representative government all over the world has been threatened with a growing paralysis.”In their words6 March 1891Speech before the Federal Club, New York City, (6 March 1891), as published in New York Daily Tribune (7 March 1891)

1886“The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”In their wordsJanuary 1886January 1886, in a campaign speech given in New York https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks

1884“The light has gone out of my life.”In their words14 February 1884Entry in Roosevelt's diary, before which he put a large X, on 14 February 1884, the day in which both his mother and wife died within hours

1883Member of the New York State AssemblyOffice1883-18841881“By God, if you try anything like that, I'll kick you, I'll bite you, I'll kick you in the balls. I'll do anything to you - you'd better leave me alone.”In their words1881, to "Big John" McManus, a Tammany Hall politician in the New York State Assembly, about a plan to humiliate Roosevelt by tossing him

1858Born27 October 1858

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  1. Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand.

    Jun 7, 1897, Letter to John Hay, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, London, written in Washington, DC (June 7, 1897), Own words

  2. The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

    Jan 1897, "How Not To Better Social Conditions" in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39 · Full text online (with at least two typos - in the last, Own words

  3. There is much talk about "jingoism".

    Oct 23, 1895, In "For An Honest Election". New York Times. 23 Oct 1895. The reference is found halfway down the article., Own words

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Medal of Honor2001
David Livingstone Centenary Medal1917
Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico1910
Nobel Peace Prize1906
Honorary doctor of the Humboldt University of Berlin
Honorary doctorate from the University of Cairo

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Born October 27, 1858, Roosevelt fought debilitating asthma with a regime of vigorous exercise, studied natural history, and wrote The Naval War of 1812 while at Harvard, establishing himself as both historian and reformer in the New York State Legislature. After his wife Alice and mother died on the same day, he bought a cattle ranch in the Dakotas to recover, then returned as assistant secretary of the Navy, helped plan the naval war against Spain in 1898, and resigned to lead the Rough Riders in Cuba. The war hero became New York's governor in 1898, then vice president in 1900; six months later McKinley's assassination made him president at 42. He championed the Square Deal, broke trusts, built the Panama Canal, sent the Great White Fleet around the world, and won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Russo-Japanese War. Denied the Republican nomination in 1912, he founded the Bull Moose Party and split the vote, handing Wilson the presidency, then nearly died on an Amazon expedition before his health gave out for good on January 6, 1919.

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United States
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Politicians
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deceased
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Lived 1858 to 1919 · aged 60

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