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On October 27, 1858, future President Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City to a wealthy family. -
On September 14, McKinley died from gangrene that had gone undetected in the internal wound. Theodore Roosevelt then became the 26th president of the United States in September 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley. -
The Elkins Act specifically prohibited rebates and made the railroad corporation providing the rebate, as well as the shipper receiving it, liable under the law. -
Pelican Island was the first National wildlife refuge in the United States. It was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting. -
Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the 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. -
In 1906 he signed a federal law to make Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove part of Yosemite National Park -
President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era. ... The basis of the law rested on the regulation of product labeling rather than pre-market approval. -
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres. -
Theodore Roosevelt's safari into Africa. Landing in Mombasa, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda. -
When Theodore Roosevelt tangled with oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, near the turn of the 20th century, he became the first president to pit the power of the White House against the power of oil. Roosevelt ultimately won that battle in 1911 when the U.S. Supreme Court approved the breakup of the Standard Oil Company, Rockefeller's company. -
"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, incumbent president William Howard Taft.