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The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt started on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt had been the vice president for only 194 days when he succeeded to the presidency. A Republican, he ran for and won by a landslide a four-year term
As a child, Roosevelt witnessed the Abraham Lincoln funeral procession.
Theodore Roosevelt had a really, really good memory.
Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt were fifth cousins. Eleanor Roosevelt was Theodore’s niece.
The Republican leaders really didn’t want Roosevelt as President.
Roosevelt was the first President to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
TR wrote about 35 books in his lifetime and an estimated 150,000 letters. And he did write an autobiography!
He was also the father of the modern U.S. Navy
While Roosevelt graduated from Harvard, he left law school at Columbia without receiving a degree
Roosevelt was blind in one eye after a boxing injury in the White House.