Born: October 27, 1858

Died: January 6, 1919

First Lady: Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Political Party: Republican

Presidential Term: September 14, 1901 to March 3, 1909

Famous Quote: “The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.”

Timeline

1880 Graduated from Harvard

1880 Married Alice Hathaway Lee

1882-1884 New York state assemblyman

1886 Married Edith Kermit Carow

1889-1895 Member of U.S. civil service commission

1895-1897 President of New York City police board

1897-1898 Assistant secretary of the navy

1898 Spanish-American War

1898-1900 Governor of New York

1901 Vice president of the United States under President McKinley

1901-1909 Twenty-sixth president of the United States

1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War

1906 Won the Nobel Peace Prize

1907 Oklahoma admitted to the Union