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Theodore Roosevelt birthday
On October 27, 1858, future President Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City to a wealthy family. Roosevelt was home-schooled and then attended Harvard University, graduating in 1880. He served in the New York state legislature from 1881 to 1884. -
Named President when McKinley is assassinated
President McKinley shot at Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY, while Roosevelt is hiking in the Adirondacks. -
Energy crisis
"This strike was successfully mediated through the intervention of the federal government, which strove to provide a "Square Deal"—which Roosevelt took as the motto for his administration—to both sides. The settlement was an important step in the Progressive era reforms of the decade that followed." -
Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt's executive order designated the island as the nation's first national wildlife refuge for the protection of nesting birds -
Yosemite under Federal Control
Muir took Roosevelt to Yosemite in an attempt to persuade him to take the land under federal control and establish it as a national park, which Roosevelt did in 1906. Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California, 1903. -
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." -
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. -
Passage of pure food and drug act
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce -
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument
Due in large part to the influence of Mondell, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower as the first national monument on September 24, 1906. -
Leaves presidency, visits Africa
In June of 1910, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) returns from a lengthy expedition to Africa. A popular topic in the press, readers were fascinated both by former President Roosevelt as well as his destination. -
Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party
The Progressive Party was popularly nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party" when Roosevelt boasted that he felt "strong as a bull moose" after losing the Republican nomination in June 1912 at the Chicago convention.