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He was born in New York
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Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to win a full term in his own right.
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr
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Congress passed the bill by an overwhelming margin, and President Roosevelt signed it into law. The Elkins Act specifically prohibited rebates and made the railroad corporation providing the rebate, as well as the shipper receiving it, liable under the law.
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It was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting.
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ince 1879, nearly 100 bills had been introduced in Congress to regulate food and drugs, President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era.
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Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres
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Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land for what would become Yosemite National Park, America's third national park.
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One of the biggest headline-grabbing stories of 1910 was former president Theodore Roosevelt's safari into Africa.
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Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson unseated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft and defeated former President Theodore Roosevelt, who ran under the banner of the new Progressive or "Bull Moose" Party.
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The crisis began when the Arab producers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries put in place an embargo on oil exports to the United States