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Theodore Roosevelt is born
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909 https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/ -
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. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-william-mckinley-is-shot -
Energy crisis
On Friday, October 3, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt called a precedent-shattering meeting at the temporary White House at 22 Lafayette Place, Washington, D.C. A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/coalstrike -
Elkins Act passed
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. https://bluebox.creighton.edu/demo/modules/en-boundless-old/www.boundless.com/definition/elkins-act/index.html -
Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
President Theodore Roosevelt established the first national wildlife refuge on March 14, 1903, at Pelican Island, Florida, to protect brown pelicans there from slaughter by market hunters http://npshistory.com/brochures/nwr/pelican-island-story.pdf -
Wins first full term as President
The 1904 United States presidential election was the 30th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1904. Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1904 -
Yosemite under Federal Control
Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove remained under state administration until 1906 when they were returned to federal control and incorporated into Yosemite National Park https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-national-park-commemorates -
Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/congress-and-progressive-era/pure-food-and-drug-act -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument
Devils Tower is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base https://www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
The Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition was an expedition to tropical Africa in 1909-1911 led by former US President Theodore Roosevelt. It was funded by Andrew Carnegie and sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-theodore-roosevelt-expedition -
Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
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. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bull-Moose-Party