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Theodore Roosevelt is born
Teddy Roosevelt was born on October 27th, 1858 in Manhattan, New York City -
Yosemite under Federal Control
Yosemite national park was established on October 1st, 1890. -
Named President when McKinley is assassinated
President William McKinley is shot at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz is arrested in connection with the attack. McKinley dies of complications from his bullet wounds. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumes the presidency. -
Elkins Act passed
Urged by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Elkins placed the bill bearing his name before the Senate in early 1902 and it passed in February 1903, moving unanimously out of the Senate and passing by a 250 to 6 vote in the House. The Elkins Act gave federal courts the power to end rate discrimination. -
Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
President Theodore Roosevelt's executive order designated the island as the nation's first national wildlife refuge for the protection of nesting birds. -
Wins first full term as President
In 1904, he won the election to the presidency in his own right; the first president to do so after the untimely death of his predecessor. -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
An act attempting to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument
Due to a lack of congressional support, a different avenue of protection was sought. The Antiquities Act of 1906 offered a new opportunity for protecting the Tower. This act allowed "objects of historic or scientific interest" to be set aside by the president. Wyoming Representative Frank W. Mondell (1860-1939) lent his support to the plan to have the area preserved as a national monument. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devil's Tower as the first national monument on September 24, 1906. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
Immediately following Taft's inauguration in 1909, Roosevelt set out for Africa to hunt big game and collect specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. -
Energy crisis
When Theodore Roosevelt tangled with oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, near the turn of the 20th century, he became the first president to pit the power of the White House against the power of oil. Roosevelt ultimately won that battle in 1911 when the U.S. Supreme Court approved the breakup of the Standard Oil Company, Rockefeller's company. -
Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
Roosevelt ran unsuccessfully for president in 1912