Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (HM1OHJ)

Location: Keystone, SD 57751 Pennington County
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Country: United States of America
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N 43° 52.73', W 103° 27.397'

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26th President

— 1901-1909 —

Born: October 27, 1858, New York, New York
Married: Alice Hathaway Lee (1861-1884), October 27, 1880; Edith Kermit Carow (1861-1848), December 2, 1886
Children: Alice, Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, Quentin
Died: January 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, New York
Education: Harvard College, 1880
Occupation: Author, lawyer, public official
Political Party: Republican
Career Highlights: · Governor of New York; · Commander of Rough Riders in Spanish-American War; · William McKinley's Vice President; · Became the youngest President at age 42 when McKinley was assassinated; · Unsuccessful third-party presidential candidate in 1912
National Highlights: · First President to travel outside the United States; · Worked to bring big business under regulation; · Began construction of the Panama Canal
"All my life in politics, I have striven to make the necessary working compromise between the ideal and the practical." - Letter to his son Kermit, January 17, 1915

"Perhaps the two most striking things in the presidency are the immense power of the President, in the first place; and in the second place, the fact that as soon as he has ceased being President he goes right back into the body of the people and becomes just like any other American citizen." - Written early in 1900; published in The Youth's Companion, November 6, 1902

Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mount Rushmore:
"Roosevelt seems fairly to have leaped with life. He kidnapped energy and carried it into the Nation's home ... He remains undrawn, none will engrave him. His spirit is still at large, uncultured by artist or sculptor." - Lincoln Borglum Manuscript Colletion, Corpus Christi, Texas
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Placed ByNational Endowment for the Humanities and South Dakota Humanities Council
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Date Added Thursday, October 8th, 2015 at 5:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)13T E 623991 N 4859572
Decimal Degrees43.87883333, -103.45661667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 52.73', W 103° 27.397'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 52' 43.8" N, 103° 27' 23.82" W
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Area Code(s)605
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Presidential Trail, Keystone SD 57751, US
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