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He was born in New York, USA.
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His grandfather, Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt, dies and receives first pair of eyeglasses.
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Begins education at Harvard University
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Theodore Roosevelt Sr. dies from stomach cancer
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Meets Alice Hathaway Lee
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Graduates from Harvard, magna cum laude
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Marries Alice Hathaway Lee on his 22nd birthday
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Joins the Republican Party.
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Elected Speaker of Republican Assembly (minority leader)
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Joins the National Guard; commissioned a Second Lieutenant
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Alice Lee Roosevelt, born
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Mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt dies of typhoid fever; hours later, wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt dies from kidney failure
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Marries Edith Carow secretly in London
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is born at Sagamore Hill
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Ethel Carow Roosevelt born at Sagamore Hill
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Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt born in Washington, DC
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Elected President of the Board of Police Commissioners
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Quentin Roosevelt born in Washington, DC
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Serves in Cuba during Spanish-American War; promoted to Colonel
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Nominated by the Republican Party for Governor of New York State
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Elected vice president
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Becomes 26th President of the United States, youngest to ever hold the office
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Re-elected president and establishes United States Forest Service
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for mediating treaty of Russo-Japanese War
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Presidency ends
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Nominated as presidential candidate for Progressive party
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Sustains severe leg injury during expedition and nearly dies
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Declines Progressive presidential nomination and backs Republican candidate
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Youngest son Quentin killed while serving as a fighter pilot in France
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Dies in sleep at Sagamore Hill of a coronary embolism (arterial blood clot), age 60. Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.
