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Theodore Roosevelt Jr., also known as Teddy or T. R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York politics, including serving as the state's 33rd governor for two years -
President William McKinley is shot at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz is arrested in connection with the attack. McKinley dies of complications from his bullet wounds. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumes the presidency. -
On Friday, October 3, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt called a precedent-shattering meeting at the temporary White House at 22 Lafayette Place, Washington, D.C. A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. -
in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt's executive order designated the island as the nation's first national wildlife refuge for the protection of nesting birds. -
President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Elkins Act into law on February 19, 1903. This act updated the Interstate Commerce Commission Act of 1887, making it more effective in enforcing rates with the railroads. The Elkins Act is a United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act. -
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican president Theodore Roosevelt defeated the conservative 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. -
President Theodore Roosevelt designated Devils Tower as America's first national monument in 1906. -
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
State control and administration of Yosemite Valley continued until 1906 when the State of California ceded the Valley to the United States Government and made it part of Yosemite National Park. -
From 1909 to 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt went on an expedition to Africa. This guide provides access to materials related to “Theodore Roosevelt's Africa Expedition” in the America digital collection of historic newspapers. -
The Progressive Party, popularly nicknamed 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 protégé turned rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.