Theodore Roosevelt | Notable Biographies

(27/10/1858 - 1919/01/06)

Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States (1901-1909)

He was born on October 27, 1858 in New York, son of a wealthy merchant.
Educated by private tutors, later he studied at Harvard, where he graduated in 1880, year in which he married Alice Hathaway, daughter of a banker.
By the Republican party , he was elected member of the New York Assembly in 1881. In 1884 it supported the presidential candidacy of James Blaine. The following two years he lives in a Dakota Ranch, writing articles for magazines.
In 1886, he returned to New York and restarted his political career, writes three books and remarries with Edith Kermit Carow. It was presented to Mayor of New York, campaigned to become a candidate for the Republican party in 1888 and was director of the Civil Service Commission (1889-1895) and the police of New York (1895). After arise again as presidential candidate by his party in 1896, was Assistant Navy Secretary (1897), organizing the American battle fleet in the moments before the Guerra Hispanic. He founded the Rough riders, whose attack in the battle of San Juan, in Cuba (July 1898), was the most celebrated feat of the war.
He was elected Governor of New York in 1898 and nominated for the federal Vice President on the Republican nomination along with President William McKinley in 1900. The assassination of McKinley in September 1901, made him then the youngest in the history of United States President. Earned the nickname trustbuster ('monopolies Shredder'), mediated in the coal strike in 1902 and acted decisively in the conservation of land, using his presidential powers to make 51 million hectares of national forests in the West.
Reelegido in the 1904 presidential election, passed the Hepburn Act of 1906, which reinforced the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission (Interstate Commerce Commission) and the law that created the Agency for food and narcotics. It supported programmes of social coverage and protection against the influence of the most powerful economic groups. Appointed as a successor to his friend, the Secretary of war William Howard Taft, thus promoting his nomination and subsequent election as President.
His foreign policy was named Big Stick (the 'big stick' policy). He supported the revolution of 1903 in Panama that allowed United States acquired the territory of the canal, intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic and Cuba to control the economies of both, in order to promote American interests. He made use of public and private channels when mediated in the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 that earned him the Nobel Peace Prize, first awarded to an American.
Married Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt from 1880 to 1884, and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt from 1886 to 1919. He was father of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Kermit Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt Derby.
He left the ranks of the Republican party to stand as a candidate by the newly-formed Progressive Party , even though he was the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson the winner of the elections. He left the progressive party in 1916 for supporting the Republican candidate against Wilson, and seemed to be the favourite for the elections of 1920, when he died on January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay (New York).