Theodore Roosevelt

October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. He had served for six months as vice president under William McKinley before becoming president upon McKinley's assassination in 1901. At 42, he was the youngest person to assume the office. Before his presidency he was a historian, naturalist, and soldier, known for his advocacy of the strenuous life.

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Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, from 1901 to 1909. He was a New York politician and reformer, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and became famous leading the Rough Riders in Cuba in the Spanish-American War.

Elected governor of New York and then vice president, he became president at 42 after William McKinley's assassination. He prosecuted large trusts, pushed food and drug regulation, and set aside large areas as national forests, parks and monuments.

Abroad he built up the navy, secured the land for the Panama Canal and mediated the end of the Russo-Japanese War, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. He ran again in 1912 for the Progressive Party and came second.