Theodore Roosevelt

By RiverStyx
  • Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Theodore Roosevelt is born

    Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan. He was the second of four children born to Martha Stewart Bulloch and businessman Theodore Roosevelt Sr. He had an older sister (Anna), younger brother (Elliott) and younger sister (Corinne).
  • Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    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.
  • Energy crisis - Anthracite Coal Strike

    Energy crisis - Anthracite Coal Strike

    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.
  • Elkins Act passed

    Elkins Act passed

    The Elkins Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia, who introduced a bill in 1902 at the behest of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
  • Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    with the encouragement of Frank Chapman and the Florida Audubon Society, President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island in the Indian River Lagoon as the first federal bird reservation, giving birth to the National Wildlife Refuge System.
  • Wins first full term as President

    Wins first full term as President

    Roosevelt was elected to a full term in 1904 and groomed William Howard Taft to succeed him in 1908.
  • Yosemite under Federal Control

    Yosemite under Federal Control

    State control and administration of the Yosemite Valley itself continued until 1906, when the Valley was re-ceded to the United States Government by the State of California
  • Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    Due in large part to the influence of Mondell, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower as the first national monument
  • Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    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
  • Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    One of the biggest headline-grabbing stories of 1910 was former president Theodore Roosevelt's safari into Africa. Landing in Mombasa in 1909, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda.
  • Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Democratic governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey unseated incumbent Republican president William Howard Taft while defeating former president Theodore Roosevelt