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Theodore Roosevelt Timeline

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  • Birth

  • American Museum of National History

    American Museum of National History

    Amazingly enough his son would one day have a statue here.
  • Teddy attends Harvard

    Teddy attends Harvard

  • Father dies of stomach cancer

    Father dies of stomach cancer

    In October meets Alice Hathaway Lee
  • Engagement to Lee

    Engagement to Lee

    Graduated Harvard in June

  • Marries Alice Hathaway Lee

    Teddy's 22nd birthday is his wedding day!
    Teddy also entered law school and became a member of the Republican Party in 1880.

  • Elected to State Assembly

  • First child born

    Alice

  • Mother dies; Lee dies

  • Marries Edith Kermit Carow

    Marries Edith Kermit Carow

  • Elected Vice President

    Elected Vice President

  • President McKinley assassinated

    President McKinley assassinated

  • Becomes 26th President

    Becomes 26th President

    He is the youngest ever President at 43
  • Foreign Policy

    Foreign Policy

    Governance of Phillipines (1901)
    Venezuela (1902)
    Panama Canal (1903)
  • Signs treaty to build Panama Canal

    Signs treaty to build Panama Canal

  • Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

    Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

  • Presidency over

    Presidency over

    By this time Teddy Roosevelt had preserved 230 million acres of public land