USA History
Theodore Roosevelt
Twenty-Sixth President of the United States
1901-1909


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Date of Birth: October 27, 1858
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Date of Death: January 6, 1919
Place of Death: Oyster Bay, New York
Prior Occupation: Author, Public Official
Party: Republican
First Wife: Alice Hathaway Lee
Second Wife: Edith Kermit Carow
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Term: 1901-1905

-1901-

• Received word that President McKinley was dying. Inaugurated as president (September)
  
• Invited first Negro, Booker T. Washington, to have dinner at the White House (October)
  
• Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Britain (December)
  -1902-
  
• Newlands Conservation Act (June)
  
• Spooner Act - Isthmian canal, now named Panama Canal (June)
  -1903-
  
• First overseas wireless message sent to Edward VII of England (January)
  
• Elkins Act establishes standard schedules for railroads (February)
  
• Bird Reservation created, first of fifty-two (March)
  
• Alaskan - Canadian border decided (October)
  -1904-
  
• Roosevelt elected for 1905-1909 term (November)
  
• signed arbitratation treaty with Italy (December)
  -1905-
  
• Created forest service (February)
  

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Term: 1905-1909
Vice President: Charles Warren Fairbanks

-1905-

• Inaugurated as president (March)
  
• Attended weding of F.D.Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt (March)
  -1906-
  
• food and drug acts passed, meat inspection bill passed (June)
  -1907-
  
• Panic of 1907 (October)
  
• Oklahoma admitted as state, number 46 (November)
  -1908-
  
• employers liability act (April)
  
• Taft elected as next president (November)
  
• Root-Takahira Agreement (November)
  -1909-
  
• farewell luncheon (March)
  

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