Theodore Roosevelt

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Dutch Reformed

EDUCATION
Harvard College AB 1876; Columbia Law School

VITALS
5 ft 10 in / 210 lbs

CAREER
1882-84 Member, New York State Assembly
1884-85 Cattle rancher, Dakota Territory
1886 Unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of New York City
1889-95 Member, U.S. Civil Service Commission
1894-97 President, New York City Board of Police Commissioners
1897-98 Assistant Secretary of the Navy (McKinley)
1898 Colonel, First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (Rough Riders)
1898-1900 Governor of New York
1901 U.S. Vice President (McKinley)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 8, 1904
Popular: Roosevelt 7,626,593 (56%) Alton Parker 5,082,898 (38%)
Electoral: Roosevelt 336 Parker 140

VICE PRESIDENT
Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-09)

ADMINISTRATION
Anthracite Coal Strike (1902); Department of Commerce & Labor (1903); Panama Canal Commission, Northern Securities Company dissolved (1904); National Forest Service, Portsmouth Treaty (1905); Nobel Peace Prize, Antiquities Act (1906); Great White Fleet (1907); Grand Canyon (1908)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William Day, William Moody,

NEW STATE
Oklahoma (1907)

FIRST LADY
Edith Kermit Carow (1901-09)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1912 Unsuccessful candidate for President

“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Speech at Minnesota State Fair, September 2, 1901

Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent, 1903.