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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. -
When President McKinley is assassinated, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes president. -
The Elkins Act is passed to give federal courts the power to end rate discrimination. -
Landing in Mombasa in 1909, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what is now known as Kenya and Uganda. -
Theodore Roosevelt named Pelican Island the first national wildlife refuge to protect brown pelicans from being slaughtered by market hunters. -
Theodore Roosevelt wins the 1904 Presidental Election. -
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devil's Tower the first national monument under the new Antiquities Act. His action made Wyoming the home of both our first national park -
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 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 FDA. -
The state-controlled Yosemite valley and mariposa grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park -
Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican National Convention in Chicago -
Attempted to persuade the Union to end the strike with a promise that he would create a commission to study the causes of the strike and propose a solution