Theodore Roosevelt
1858 – 1919 American twenty-sixth president of the United States
Progressive-era president known for trust-busting, conservation, and an assertive foreign policy in the Caribbean and Latin America.
- Religion
- Dutch Reformed
- Affiliations
- Republican Party, Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Theodore Roosevelt was a New York patrician who built a public image as a soldier, reformer, and outdoorsman before becoming president in 1901 after McKinley's assassination. He pursued antitrust action against large combinations, backed consumer-protection laws, and set aside vast tracts of land for conservation. Abroad he pushed an aggressive policy in the Western Hemisphere, adding the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and backing the separation of Panama to build the canal, actions later criticised as heavy-handed intervention. He broke with his party in 1912 to run a third-party campaign and lost.
Connections
- family of Franklin D. Roosevelt — Fifth cousin; his niece Eleanor married FDR.
- family of Franklin D. Roosevelt — Fifth cousin; married TR's niece Eleanor.
In the timeline
- 1876 Square deal: fair dealing, doubtful Masonic root mentioned
- 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act the president who used it against the trusts
- 1895 Theodore Roosevelt appointed New York City Police Commissioner central figure
- 1897 Roosevelt resigns as Police Commissioner mentioned
- 1898 The Spanish-American War and American empire Rough Rider and later president
- 1901 Theodore Roosevelt is initiated a Freemason central figure
- 1903 Founding of the Department of Commerce and Labor the president who created it
- 1904 The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine author of the corollary
- 1904 Northern Securities antitrust case mentioned
- 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine author of the corollary
- 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth mentioned
- 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, Origin of the FDA the president who signed it
- 1907 Theodore Roosevelt launches the Great White Fleet central figure
- 1912 Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive platform central figure