Oil Portrait Of Theodore: ROOSEVELT, Theodore, 26th president of the United States: b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 27, 1858; d. Oyster Bay, N.Y., Jan. 6, 1919. His Manhattan birthplace, at 28 East 20th Street, is now a museum and the headquarters of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Author, naturalist, explorer, soldier, and statesman, Theodore Roosevelt came from a well-to-do mercantile family of Dutch extraction.
From Theodore Roosevelt to World War I.-Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president on Sept. 14, 1901, the same day on which McKinley died following his fatal shooting at the Buffalo Exposition. Initially, Roosevelt did not press Congress aggressively for reform legislation. But his first message to Congress in December 1901, carried the strong suggestion that a new relationship between business and politics was at hand, and that broader governmental regulatory controls would be forthcoming.
In 1906 he visited London and Paris, and in 1909 by royal command returned to Copenhagen to make miniatures of the king and queen and other members of the royal family. He returned to New York in 1912 where he has since resided. Special exhibitions of his works were held at Ghent in 1913 and New York in 1914, and have been prominent in the principal miniature exhibitions of Europe and America. Notable productions include an oil portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, and miniatures of Mrs. Paul Rein-hardt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Pratt, and Dr. George C. Williamson, the well-known expert on miniatures.
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