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__** Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt **__









Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States because William McKinley was assassinated. He brought a new kind of energy to the white house and was reelected a second term. He was born on October 27, 1858 in New York, New York and died on January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York at the age of 60. Although his full name is Theodore Roosevelt, he is also known as Teddy as that was his well known nickname. Teddy was apart of the Republican political party from 1880 to 1909 until he started the progressive "Bull Moose" party of 1912. The "Bull Moose" party was a political party formed by Teddy Roosevelt in protest that Taft was selected as the republican nominee. President Roosevelt served in office from September 14, 1901 until March 4, 1909. His most significant accomplishments include the Square Deal which aimed to reform the workplace, regulate business and protect consumers. the Sherman Antitrust Act, the 1902 Coal Strike, the Elkins Act, the Hepburn Act, the Meat Inspection Act, and the National Reclamation Act of 1902. He was knows as the "trust buster" for his work to break up industrial combinations of the Sherman Antitrust act. Roosevelt is also well known for starting the Rough Riders, a group of men who fought in the Spanish-American War and was influential for the U.S when gaining the territories of Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. He also was the cause of 200 million acres of national forest being reserved. On top of that he won a Nobel Peace prize for his negotiations to end the Japanese war and started the creation of the Panama Canal, he was the first American to win the award. Roosevelt was also the first president to leave the country. Teddy is also virtually blind in one eye due to a boing accident.

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