Tedy Roosevelt Time Line

  • 9. Theodore Roosevelt is born

    9. Theodore Roosevelt is born
    Roosevelt is born on October 27, 1858
  • 11. Yosemite under Federal Control

    11. Yosemite under Federal Control
    Yosemite National Park is created
  • 10. Wins first full term as President

    McKinley was attending the Pan -American Exposition in Buffalo
  • 5. Named President when McKinley is assassinated

    Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th US president
  • 2. Elkins Act passed

    2. Elkins Act passed
    Forbade the common railroad industry
  • 7. Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge

    7. Pelican Island, Florida named first national wildlife refuge
    Roosevelt established the first national wildlife refuge
  • 6. Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act

    6. Passage of Pure Food And Drug Act
    Banned the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs
  • 1. Devil’s Tower, Wyoming, named first national monument

    The first National Monument
  • 4. Leaves presidency, visits Africa

    4. Leaves presidency, visits Africa
    Following Tafts inauguration in 1909
  • 8. Runs for presidency, unsuccessfully for Bull-Moose Party

    Bull Moose Party, formally Progressive Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912;