President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, jr.
Birth | 10/27/1858 | |||
Educ. | 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 | 1901-1901 | ![]() | ||
Occup | 1901-1909 | ![]() | ||
Election | 1904 | USA Presidential Election | ![]() | |
Occup | 1906 | ![]() | Nobel Prize Peace | ![]() |
Election | 1912 | USA Presidential Election | ![]() | |
Org. | 1912-1913 | ![]() | ||
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