Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By Theodore Roosevelt
8 Jul, 2020
Excerpt........... Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, was born in the city of New York, October 27, 1858. His ancestors on the paternal side were of an old Knickerbocker family and on the maternal side of Scotch-Ir
... Read more
Excerpt........... Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, was born in the city of New York, October 27, 1858. His ancestors on the paternal side were of an old Knickerbocker family and on the maternal side of Scotch-Irish descent. He was educated at home under private tuition and prepared for matriculation into Harvard, where he was graduated in 1880. He spent the year of 1881 in study and travel. During the years 1882-1884, he was an assemblyman in the legislature of New York. During this term of service, he introduced the first civil service bill in the legislature in 1883, and its passage was almost simultaneous with the passage of the Civil Service Bill through Congress. In 1884 he was the Chairman of the delegation from New York to the National Republican Convention. He received the nomination for mayor of the city of New York in 1886 as an Independent but was defeated. He was made Civil Service Commissioner by President Harrison in 1889 and served as president of the board until May 1895. He resigned to become President of the New York Board of Police Commissioners in May 1895. This position, in which the arduous duties were discharged with remarkable vigor and fearlessness, he resigned in 1897 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy. On the breaking out of the Spanish-American War in 1898, he resigned on May 6, and, entering the army, organized the First United States Volunteer ("Rough Rider") Regiment of Cavalry, recommending Col. L.G. Wood to the command, and taking for himself the second-in-command as lieutenant-colonel. He had gained his military experience as a member of the Eighth Regiment of N.Y.N.G. from 1884-1888, during which time he rose to the rank of captain....... Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Language
- ISBN
- 191.291 KB
- 144
- Public Domain Books
- English
- 978-1374953512
Author
Related Books
The Short Constitution:
Against Home Rule the Case for the Union:
Pygmies and Papuans:
Woman & the Republic: A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates:
Crime and Its Causes:
Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia:
A Righte Merrie Christmasse: The Story of Christ-Tide:
Empire and Wars:
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times:
Unconscious Memory:
On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data:
.jpeg){kind=logo}
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War:
The Customs of old England:
The Future of the American Negro:
Germania and Agricola:
The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea:
Great Britain And the American Civil War:
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I:
The wild tribes of Davao district, Mindanao:
War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War:
The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of The Exposition:
The System of Nature, Or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1:
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages:
Napoleon the Little:
The English Constitution:
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
