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Roosevelt assumed the presidency aged 42, and is the youngest person to become U.S. president. As a leader of the progressive movement -
Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States after William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. Roosevelt was sworn in as the 26th president the day after McKinley died -
a major labor dispute in the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania where miners, represented by the United Mine Workers of America, went on strike demanding better working conditions -
forbade the common railroad industry practice of offering rebates for large-volume shippers. -
created in 1903 to safeguard the last remaining nesting habitat for brown pelicans and other wading birds on America's East Coast -
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican president Theodore Roosevelt defeated the conservative Democratic nominee -
Yosemite came under full federal control in 1890 when it was officially established as a National Par -
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate -
In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the first national monument under the new Antiquities Act -
Democratic governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey unseated incumbent Republican president William Howard Taft while defeating former president Theodore Roosevelt -
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The Hamburg leaves her pier, with many tugs ranged about her." April 18, 1909. Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, CA), Image 42. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
In June of 1910, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) returns from a lengthy expedition to Africa. A popular topic in the press, readers were fascinated both by former President Roosevelt as well as his destination