Civic Calendar: Remember President Theodore Roosevelt
by Kathleen McCoy |
The Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program of the UAA Honors College calls the attention of the University community to the anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt on Oct. 27, 1858. He was the 26th U.S. president.
A former New York City police commissioner, New York State governor, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Army Colonel in the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt became president upon the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. At age 42, he was the youngest U.S president ever.
As president Roosevelt, a vigorous progressive, supported regulatory constraints to ensure protection and equal opportunity for workers and the middle class while supporting capitalist expansion. He was an early promoter of federal conservation policies.
Declining to run for re-election in 1908, he headed the Progressive "Bull Moose" Party in the 1912 election, losing to Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt died in his sleep of a heart attack on Jan. 6, 1919. He has consistently been rated one of the greatest U.S. presidents.
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