Vice President: Charles Warren Fairbanks Secretary of State: John Hay; Elihu Root (from July 1905); Robert Bacon (from January 1909)
Secretary of the Treasury: Leslie M. Shaw;
George B. Cortelyou (from March 1907) Secretary of War: William Howard Taft; Luke E. Wright (from July 1908)
Attorney General: William H. Moody;
Charles J. Bonaparte (from December 1906) Postmaster General: George B. Cortelyou;
George von L. Meyer (from March 1907) Secretary of the Navy: Paul Morton; Charles J. Bonaparte (from July 1905); Victor H. Metcalf (from December 1906); Truman H. Newberry (from December 1908)
Secretary of the Interior: Ethan A. Hitchcock; James R. Garfield (from March 1907) Secretary of Agriculture: James Wilson Secretary of Commerce and Labor: Victor H. Metcalf; Oscar S. Straus (from December 1906)
Supreme Court Appointment: William H. Moody (1906)
State Admitted: Oklahoma (1907)
Father: Theodore Roosevelt (1831-1878)
Mother: Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (1834-1884)
First Wife: Alice Hathaway Lee (1861-1884)
First Marriage: October 27, 1880
Second Wife: Edith Kermit Carow (1861-1948)
Second Marriage: December 2, 1886
Children: (by his first wife) Alice Lee (1884-1980); (by his second wife)
Theodore, Jr. (1887-1944); Kermit (1889-1943); Ethel Carow (1891-1977); Archibald (1894-1981); Quentin (1897-1918)
Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child who suffered from asthma, headaches, and bouts of vomiting.
While he was president, in 1902, the White House was extensively remodeled, including the addition of a West Wing, and most of the old furnishings were sold at auction.
Roosevelt was the first president to use the new medium of the wire services extensively to generate publicity for himself and his programs.
During Roosevelt’s presidency in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright staged the first powered airplane flight in history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
He was the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which he was awarded for negotiating the Russo-Japanese Treaty.
After he was portrayed in a cartoon sparing the life of a bear cub, the phrase Teddy bear was given to stuffed toys representing the cuddly animal.
Guests at the Roosevelt White House included Rudyard Kipling, Bat Masterson, and John Burroughs.
On a safari to Africa in 1909, he bagged more than 500 assorted birds and animals, including 17 lions.
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