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Theodore Roosevelt is born
Born October 27, 1858 in New York -
Named President when McKinley is assassinated
Roosevelt assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated in September 1901. He remains the youngest person to become president of the United States. -
Elkins Act Passed
The Elkins Act prohibits railroad companies from giving rebates to businesses that ship large quantities of goods and giving power to those businesses to artificially lower shipping prices. -
Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
On March 14, with the encouragement of Frank Chapman and the Florida Audubon Society, President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island in the Indian River Lagoon as the first federal bird reservation, giving birth to the National Wildlife Refuge System. -
Wins first full term as President
Roosevelt defeated Democrat Alton B. Parker -
Yosemite under Federal Control
In 1906, Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove were receded to the United States for inclusion in Yosemite National Park, which was established in 1890. -
Passage of Pure Food and Drug Act
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration -
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. -
Energy Crisis
The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic or Knickerbocker Crisis, was a financial crisis that took place in the United States over a three-week period starting in mid-October, when the New York Stock Exchange fell almost 50% from its peak the previous year. -
Leaves Presidency, visits Africa
Landed in Mombasa, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda. -
Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
Wilson handily defeated Taft and Roosevelt winning 435 of the 531 available electoral votes. Wilson also won 42% of the popular vote, while his nearest challenger, Roosevelt, won just 27%.