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The American Lion
Beginnings
ChildhoodBorn
Illness
Teedie
EducationTutors
Harvard
Athletics
4 years old
Theodore Roosevelt in 1862. TR suffered greatly from asthma causing him to be sick frequently.
12 years oldAt at eleven Theodore visited Paris where this photo was taken in 1870.
At first his illness (asthma) kept him from strenuous exercise. Later he would "make his body" and become strong.
18 years oldAbout eighteen years old Theodore Roosevelt (top left) with brother Elliott, sister Corinne and family friend Edith (who would later become his second wife). The look of the eyes and the brow are the same, but the body of TR here, around 1876, is now much stronger, the product of a home gym his father had created for him.
HarvardNow a young man, Theodore Roosevelt began his "classroom" education at Harvard, in Cambridge Massachusetts. His early schooling had been primarily from a governess in individual or small group settings. As a boy Roosevelt had attended school for a short period, but his health prevented normal schooling for much of the time. At Cambridge he would meet some life long friends and colleagues. [Dec 1876]
Yarr Matey!!!!!!TR had become quite athletic by the time he reached Harvard. Here he appears in his sculling outfit. Rowing and boxing were two of the "organized" sports in which TR participated. When skating with friends, Theodore was still out on the ice long after everyone else had quit from cold and fatigue. [circa 1877]
1st MarriageMarries Alice Hathaway Lee in 1878
Alice Dies on 2/14/1884, giving birth to 1st child, Alice
Leaves Alice in care of TR’s sister
Flees west
CowboyTeddy(ye hah)Opens ranch in Dakota BadlandsLived hard life of cowboy, posies Captures 3 outlaws at gunpointMany gunfightsWrote many books about his exploits
2nd MarriageEdith Kermit Carow
Secretly engaged in 1885 after falling in love
TR runs for Mayor of NYC (result?)
Married in London, 1886
Alice, brought back into family and raised by Edith
1st child of 2nd marriage is named Kermit
They have 5 kids
NYC Commish
NYC Police CommishPeople demanded reformFought against alliances b/t police and criminalsTammany Hall
Thomas Nast
Fought patronageAsst Sec. Navy
Asst Sec of Navy at Navy War College, still won’t look at the camera
Rough RiderVolunteer Cavalry Unit
Crowded HourKettle Hill
San Juan Hill
Press Coverage
Results
Atop San Juan Hill
Encamped in Cuba
Congressional medal of honorfactors cost him the
medal originally, including the fact that, as a volunteer, he was resented by the Army establishment; that he criticized the secretary of war for not bringing troops home quickly
from Cuba despite risk of disease there; and
that his lobbying for the medal was considered
unseemly. "I am entitled to the Medal of Honor and I
want it."
He gets in 2001, 103 years later
Governor of NYRan at request of Republican PartyRelied on War record and Reform efforts.As Governor opposed Republican platforms.Republican leaders (tom platt) want to get rid of him.
From Kettle Hill to Capitol Hill
Weeble Wooble.
Road to the PresidencyVP candidate
Reasons?
McKinley Assassination
Who?
How?
Why?
TR President.
TR and McKinley, the man with the spine of a chocolate éclair!!, faked photo
Leon Czolgosz
TR the Prez.When President McKinley was shot at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, NY in 1901, TR became the youngest person ever to become President. He was only 42.As President Theodore Roosevelt he continued to be a very visible and traveled leader shown here on a New England tour in 1902.
Bully Pulpit"bully pulpit", a good place from which to make a statement to the public about the way things ought to be. All the time he had spent learning about how people lived from the ranchers and small farmers in the west, tenement dwellers and shop keepers in the city, and soldiers in battle helped him identify with ordinary citizens from all walks of life.
Great communicator or loud mouth?
Life in the White House
Quintin, TR, Kermit, Theodore Jr., Archie, Alice , Edith, Ethel
TR the Imperialist
Theodore Rex
L’etat c’est moi
Napolean ref.
Roosevelt Corollary
Policeman of the World
Keeping the Peace
Portsmouth Treaty
Nobel Peace Prize 1906
Panama Canal
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. -Theodore Roosevelt
TR National parksAs chief executive from 1901 to 1909, he signed legislation establishing five national parks:
Crater Lake, Oregon;
Wind Cave, South Dakota
Sullys Hill, North Dakota;
Mesa Verde, Colorado;
Platt, Oklahoma
the Antiquities Act of June 8, 1906.,
the Antiquities Act enabled Roosevelt and his successors to proclaim historic landmarks, as national monuments.
Antietam
Gettysburg
Fort Necessity
Little Big Horn
Ellis Island
Statue of Liberty
Conservationist, John Muir
Scottish American naturalist
TR, Muir, Yosemite
TR the Trustbuster
Trustbuster
1904 election
Bring ‘em on!!
TAFT!!
Enjoying life after DC
Populating the museumsNYC Museum of Nat. Hist.
Egypt and Germany
1912 election
Disgruntled with the “fathead with the brain of a hamster”
Bull-Moose party
Wilson for the Dems
Oct 1912 TR shot
River of Doubt (Amazon)In 1914 TR decided to make a lecture trip to South America. Only a small amount of exploring was initially planned. Once in Brazil, however, plans were formed to explore an unmapped river, the River of Doubt which flowed from the interior to the Amazon. Colonel Rondon (right) and Colonel Roosevelt along with Kermit and about 20 others began the journey.
Origin of the amazonThe expedition members faced insects, floods, hostile natives and capsizing canoes. Several members of the party were lost including one who went insane and killed another before running off into the jungle. Kermit who had postponed his wedding to join his father on the trip nearly died when he was swept over a falls.
You can’t kill a bull mooseTheodore lost 57 pounds during the journey and nearly died from malaria and dysentery. After a major exploration of 1500 miles they had acquired a significant collection for the American Museum of Natural History.
WWI
Thanks anyway
Twilight TR learned of the death of his youngest son Quentin in July of 1918. Quentin, a fighter pilot for the US Army Air Corps in WW1, was shot down behind enemy lines. "Grandfather" Roosevelt hugs baby granddaughter Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918.
Extinction of the Bull MooseArchie sent a cable to his brothers, "The old lion is dead." Roosevelt died in his sleep in the "Gate Room“
Heart Embolism
The last words uttered by Colonel Roosevelt were "Please put out that light, James."
Who am I.?
The “Teddy” The Theodore Roosevelt Award is the highest honor the (NCAA) may confer on an individual. The award is awarded annually to a graduate from an NCAA member institution who earned a varsity letter in college for participation in athletics, and who ultimately became a distinguished citizen of national reputation based on outstanding life accomplishment.
The award, nicknamed "The Teddy," is named after President Theodore Roosevelt, whose concern for the conduct of intercollegiate athletes and athletic programs led to the formation of the NCAA in 1906.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.