Tag Archives: President Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt and the Pigskin Library

Being a POTUS is a hard act to follow. The Young Retiree Theodore Roosevelt was our youngest President, only 42 when he took office. After seven-and-a-half years, declaring that he would not seek a third term, he was also our … Continue reading

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Archie Roosevelt’s Christmas Surprise

Christmas a la Roosevelt Few White House families were as robust and open for fun as Theodore Roosevelt, his wife, six children and a slew of pets. Nevertheless, very few stories, articles or even anecdotes are about how the TR’s … Continue reading

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The Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt 1901

Vice President Theodore Roosevelt had a quiet, somber inaugural. The Sad Circumstances Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was taking a rare family vacation at a resort in New York’s Adirondack Mountains when news came that President William McKinley had been shot … Continue reading

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The Justice and the Presidents

OWH, JR Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior (1841-1935) was Massachusetts born into a solid and prosperous family. His father, OWH Senior was a physician and occasional poet, probably best known for the versifying part. As such, his son was attending Harvard when the Civil War … Continue reading

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Kermit Roosevelt: TR’s Troubled Son

All children inherit varying traits of both parents. The Second Son Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943) was the second son of Theodore Roosevelt and his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, named him for a great uncle and a brother, who died in … Continue reading

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The Sagamore Hill-Hyde Park Relations: Part 1

Family Ties. The Common Bond Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt came to New Amsterdam around 1640, about the time Peter Stuyvesant was its governor. He was not a wealthy man. He did not come for religious freedom. He did not come … Continue reading

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The Funeral of Theodore Roosevelt

When Theodore Roosevelt died on January 6, 1919, the world was stunned. TR Dies Not only was the world stunned at the death of former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was only sixty, but perhaps TR himself would have also been … Continue reading

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Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Jr. and the Museum of Natural History

This was actually a “family” undertaking. The Father On April 8, 1869, a formal meeting was held in the front parlor of the Roosevelt home, at 28 East 20th Street in New York City, to draft the charter that established … Continue reading

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President Theodore Roosevelt and “The Sargent”

  It is a long standing tradition for Presidents to have an official portrait painted. Theodore Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was a prism of a man, many sided depending on his mood or current interests. He had arguably dozens … Continue reading

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The Presidents of New York

Virginia and Ohio claim to be Mother of Presidents – but NY claims 7 unique sons! Three Who Re-Upped the Third Party Way #8, Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was a New Yorker from the border of the Catskill and Adirondack … Continue reading

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