Twenty-Sixth President
1901-1909
Died: January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York
Married to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy
" I did not usurp power," he wrote, "but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power."
In 1884 his first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, and his mother died on the same day. Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. There he mastered his sorrow as he lived in the sa
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