Each volume in the new American Presidents Reference Series is
organized around an individual presidency and gathers a host of
biographical, analytical, and primary source historical material
that will analyze the presidency and bring the president, his
administration, and his times to life. The series focuses on key
moments in U.S. political history as seen through the eyes of the
most influential presidents to take the oath of office. Unique
headnotes provide the context to data, tables and excerpted primary
source documents. Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858.
He was elected to the New York state legislature in 1881. Following
the death of his first wife, Alice Roosevelt, in February 1884,
Roosevelt left politics to manage a cattle ranch in the Dakota
Territory. In 1886 he returned to New York City, ran unsuccessfully
for mayor, and married Edith Kermit Carow. Between 1889 and 1895
Roosevelt headed the U.S. Civil Service Commission. From 1895 to
1897 he served as president of the Police Commission in New York
City. In 1897 President William McKinley appointed him assistant
secretary of the navy. He resigned to serve in the military during
the war against Spain. As lieutenant colonel he organized and led
the Rough Riders, a regiment of cavalry, in Cuba. In 1889 Roosevelt
narrowly won election as the New York State governor. The following
year he accepted the Republican Party nomination as vice president
on the McKinley reelection ticket. The ticket was victorious. On
September 14, 1901, President McKinley died after being shot by
anarchist Leon Czolgosz. At age forty-two Roosevelt became the
youngest person to serve as president. Key policies and events
during the Roosevelt administration were his antitrust efforts
(culminating in the landmark 1904 Supreme Court decision Northern
Securities Co. v. United States), ending the 1902 coal miners
strike, acquiring the land to build the Panama Canal, introducing
numerous pieces of reform legislation, and mediating the end to the
Russo-Japanese War (an effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize).
In 1908 Roosevelt endorsed the election of his friend and secretary
of war, William Howard Taft, to succeed him, but by 1910 he
distanced himself from Taft. In 1912 Roosevelt unsuccessfully
sought the Republican Party nomination to oust Taft. The Bull Moose
Party, a third party of Republican progressives, was created and
nominated Roosevelt. While campaigning, Roosevelt was barely
sidetracked when he was shot in the chest. Splitting the Republican
Party vote, Roosevelt finished in second place to Woodrow Wilson
(Taft finished in third). On January 6, 1919, Theodore Roosevelt
died. This new volume on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt will
cover his hard-charging personality, reformist, progressive
domestic policies, environmental policies, role in the Republican
and Bull Moose Parties, relationship with Congress, the Supreme
Court, and the media, allegedly imperialistic foreign policies.
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