President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, jr.

Birth	10/27/1858
Education	30 JUN 1880
Reside	1887-1919
Occup	1895-1897		NY, New York Co, New York City Police Commissioner
Occup	1897-1898		USA Asst Secretary of Navy
Military			USA Army / Colonel / Spanish American War
Election	1898		NY Governor's Election
Occup	1899-1900
Election	1900		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1901-1909
Occup	1901-1901
Election	1904		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1906		Nobel Prize Peace
Election	1912		USA Presidential Election
Org.	1912-1913		American Historical Association, President
Death	01/06/1919		Cause: blood clot
Election	1920		USA Presidential Election Died on January 6, 1919
Grave

McKinley's successor did not leave such an extensive exhibit of his religious tenets. Roosevelt, at sixteen, had joined the Dutch Reformed Church, and was the second president of that denomination. Martin Van Buren having been the other. In Washington, Roosevelt and his family attended the Grace Reformed Church regularly. His mother and his second wife were Episcopalians. He had decided views on religion and the Bible. He believed and practiced a "muscular Christianity," a religion of confidence and action. One of his favorite texts was from James 1:22, "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." His gospel of life, appropriately expounded to one of the cowboy members of the Rough Riders, was: "Get action; do... Read More