Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer. He served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. He is generally ranked in polls of historians and political scientists as one of the five best presidents.
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer. He served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. He is generally ranked in polls of historians and political scientists as one of the five best presidents. Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan, New York City. He was the second of four children born to businessman and philanthropist Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Martha Stewart. His paternal grandfather was the father of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was Theodore’s fourth cousin. His maternal grandfather was Cornelius Van Schaack, father of businessman Cornelius V. S. Schaack and Margaret Barnhill S. Barnhill. He had an older sister and a younger brother, both of whom were later married to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt. He died on January 6, 1919, at the age of 83, at his home in Mount Vernon, New Jersey. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. His book The Naval War of 1812 established his reputation as a learned historian and as a popular writer. His wife and his mother both died in rapid succession, and he began to frequent a cattle ranch in the Dakotas. He integrated his exuberant personality, a vast range of interests and world-famous achievements into a \”cowboy\” persona defined by robust masculinity. He became a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for the anti-trust policy while supporting Progressive Era policies in the early 20th century.
His successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. He led a two-year expedition to the Amazon basin where he nearly died of tropical disease. During World War I, he criticized Wilson for keeping the country out of the war with Germany, and his offer to lead volunteers to France was rejected. He considered running for president again in 1920, but his health continued to deteriorate and he died in 1919. He was succeeded by his close friend William Howard Taft, who went on to succeed him in the 1908 presidential election. In 1912, he tried to win the 1912 Republican nomination for president. He failed, walked out, and founded the so-called \”Bull Moose\” Party which called for wide-ranging progressive reforms. He also served as vice president from March to September 1901. He assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated the following September. He remains the youngest person to become President of the U.S. He championed his \”Square Deal\” domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. He established many new national parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve the nation’s natural resources. He expanded the Navy and sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour to project the United states’ naval power around the globe.
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