OVERVIEW:

BORN:
October 27, 1858;
New York. New York

DIED:
January 6, 1919 (age 60)
Oyster Bay, New York

OBITUARIES:
New York Times

EDUCATION:
Harvard University (BA)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican (1880–1911, 1916–1919)
Progressive “Bull Moose”(1912–1916)

HIGHLIGHTS:
1882-1884:
Member, New York State Assembly
1883:
Minority Leader, New York State Assembly
1895-1897:
President, New York City Board of Police Commissioners
1897-1898:
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
1899-1900:
Governor of New York
1901:
Vice President of the United States
1901-1909:
26th President of the United States

FIRST LADY:

VICE PRESIDENT:

RESOURCES:

Miller Center (UVA)
American Presidents (C-SPAN)
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (PBS)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (PBS)
History Channel

Papers (Library of Congress)
Theodore Roosevelt Center (Dickinson State University)
Digital Library Collection  and  Search (TR Center)
Speech Archive (Miller Center)
Theodore Roosevelt Collection (Harvard)
Public Papers (American Presidency Project)
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film (Library of Congress)
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children
Theodore Roosevelt Association

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

1901 OATH OF OFFICE:

1904 ELECTION:

REPUBLICANS:
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (PRESIDENT)
CHARLES FAIRBANKS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 336 (70.6%)
Popular Vote: 7,625,599 (56.4%)

DEMOCRATS:
ALTON PARKER (PRESIDENT)
HENRY DAVIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 140 (29.4%)
Popular Vote: 5,083,501 (37.6%)

1905 INAUGURATION:

1905 Address (Reading Copy, Transcript, Video, Video)
Library of Congress (1901, 1905)
Joint Congressional Committee  (1901, 1905)

1912 ELECTION:

DEMOCRATS:
WOODROW WILSON (PRESIDENT)
THOMAS R. MARSHALL (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 435 (81.9%)
Popular Vote: 6,294,327 (41.8%)

PROGRESSIVES (BULL MOOSE):
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (PRESIDENT)
HIRAM JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 88 (16.6%)
Popular Vote: 4,120,207 (27.4%)

REPUBLICANS:
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT  (PRESIDENT)
NICHOLAS M. BUTLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 8 (1.5%)
Popular Vote: 3,486,343 (23.2%)

SOCIALISTS:
EUGENE V. DEBS (PRESIDENT)
EMIL SEIDEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
Electoral Vote: 0 (0.0%)
Popular Vote: 900,370 (6.0%)

ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION:

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE:
James Wilson (1897–1913)

SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND LABOR:
George B. Cortelyou (1903–1904)
Victor H. Metcalf (1904–1906)
Oscar S. Straus (1906–1909)

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR:
Ethan A. Hitchcock (1899–1907)
James R. Garfield (1907–1909)

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

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)

POSTMASTER GENERAL:
Charles E. Smith (1901–1902)
Henry C. Payne (1902–1904)
Robert J. Wynne (1904–1905)
George B. Cortelyou (1905–1907)
George von Lengerke Meyer (1907–1909)

SECRETARY OF STATE:
John M. Hay (1901–1905)
Elihu Root (1905–1909)
Robert Bacon (1909)

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY:
Lyman J. Gage (1897–1902)
Leslie M. Shaw (1902–1907)
George B. Cortelyou (1907–1909)

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

OTHER ADVISORS/ STAFF:
Archibald Butt
Gifford Pinchot

SUPREME COURT NOMINEES:

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.  (1902-1932)
William R. Day (1903-1922)
William Moody (1906-1910)

CONGRESS:

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE:
David B. Henderson (1899-1903)
Joseph G. Cannon (1903-1911)

HISTORIC SITES:

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace (New York)
Theodore Roosevelt National Park (North Dakota)
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (New York)
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site (New York)
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial (Washington, DC)

ARTICLES:

Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life (Smithsonian, 11/2012)