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Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Us President > 
Theodore Roosevelt is mostly remembered as the twenty-sixth President of the United States (1901-1909), but this astonishingly multifaceted man was a great many other things as well.
In addition to holding elective office as a New York State Assemblyman, Governor of New York, Vice President, and President, he was also a deputy sheriff in the Dakota Territory, Police Commissioner of New York City, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Colonel of the Rough Riders *, all by the age of 42, at which time he became the youngest man ever to hold the office of President.
His specific achievements are numerous. Perhaps his greatest contribution was his work for conservation. During his tenure in the White House from 1901 to 1909, he designated 150 National Forests, the first 51 Federal Bird Reservations, 5 National Parks, the first 18 National Monuments, the first 4 National Game Preserves, and the first 21 Reclamation Projects. Altogether, in the seven-and-one-half years he was in office, he provided federal protection for almost 230 million acres, a land area equivalent to that of all the East coast states from Maine to Florida.
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More on this Website >
• http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/biotr.htm
• The White House : Theodore Roosevelt • Edit
• Wikipedia.org: Theodore Roosevelt • Edit
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The White House, US Presidents
For two hundred years, the White House has stood as a symbol of the Presidency, the United States government, and the American people. Its history, and the history of the... |
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Geronimo, Apache Leader
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Mark Twain, Writer of Huckleberry Finn
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William McKinley, 25th US President
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William Howard Taft, 27th US President
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Spanish-American War
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The Nobel Prize
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The Panama Canal
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