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Theodore Roosevelt was Born October 27, 1858 New York City, U.S. -
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On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, while his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, was in Vermont at a speaking engagement. Over the next eight days, McKinley's health condition varied until he died on September 14, and later that day Roosevelt was sworn in as President. -
The Roosevelt administration sued successfully to break up such monopolies as John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co. and J.P. Morgan’s Northern Securities Co., a railroad conglomerate that the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, dissolved. -
Congress passed the bill by a huge margin.President Roosevelt signed it into law on February 19, 1903. The Elkins Act prohibited rebates and made the railroad corporation providing the rebate, as well as the shipper receiving it, liable under the law. -
With the establishment of the first national wildlife refuge on Pelican Island on March 14, 1903, Roosevelt created the National Wildlife Refuge System.Roosevelt would go on to create 50 more federal bird reserves and four national game preserves with the refuge system. -
Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right. -
On June 30th, 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era. The point of the law rested on the regulation of product labeling rather than pre-market approval. -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument on September 24,1906.The monument rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourscore River, standing 867 feet from summit to base. -
Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land (about the size of Rhode Island) for what would become Yosemite National Park, America's third national park. In 1906, the state-controlled Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park. -
Roosevelt African Expedition was an expedition to Africa led by American president Theodore Roosevelt and outfitted by the Smithsonian Institution. Its purpose was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History.He left March 23, 1909, and returned June 18, 1910. -
The Bull-Moose Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protege and conservative rival,president William Howard Taft.