Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

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Progressive Party Convention (1912)

United States Presidential Election (1912)

William Thomas Stead to Jane Addams, October 12, 1901

Employer and Employee, August 25, 1902

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, October 15, 1902

Simon Newton Dexter North to Jane Addams, December 9, 1905

Jane Addams to Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, January 14, 1906

Charles Patrick Neill to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, January 29, 1906

Charles Patrick Neill to Jane Addams, January 29, 1906

Henry Cabot Lodge to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, February 1, 1906

Jane Addams to George Platt Brett Sr., December 12, 1906

Irving Fisher to Committee of One Hundred, May 8, 1907

Edwin Morrell to Jane Addams, January 4, 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, February 26, 1911

Jane Addams to Annie Adams Fields, November 17, 1911

At Last a Genuinely Independent Newspaper, ca. August 1912

Rena Michaels Atchison to Jane Addams, [August 1912]

Unknown (Re: Theodore Roosevelt) to Jane Addams, August 1912

Criticizing Col. Roosevelt, August 1912

Bull Moose Party clipping, ca. August 1912 (fragment)

William Monroe Trotter to Jane Addams, August 6-7, 1912

P. C. Allen to Jane Addams, August 6, 1912

Mary Eliza McDowell to Jane Addams, August 7, 1912

Wallace Thayer to the Editor, August [8], 1912

Anonymous ("A believer in Women Suffrage) to Jane Addams, August 11, 1912

Clara Beebe Spence to Jane Addams, August 11, 1912

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, August 11, 1912

Harriot Stanton Blatch to Jane Addams, August 12, 1912

Frank Shubel Coffin to Jane Addams, August 12, 1912

Katherine L. Minor to Jane Addams, August 12, 1912

William N. Nanney to Jane Addams, August 12, 1912

The Degeneration of A Great Personality, August 12, 1912

William Kent to Jane Addams, August 14, 1912

William McCarthy to Jane Addams, August 14, 1912

John G. Witt to Jane Addams, August 14, 1912

Elmer E. Hubbard to Jane Addams, August 15, 1912

Anonymous (Theodore Roosevelt critic) to Jane Addams, August 16, 1912

Florence C. Porter to Jane Addams, August 16, 1912

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, August 16, 1912

George William Cook to Jane Addams, August 17, 1912

Ellen H. Gay to Jane Addams, August 18, 1912

Rachel G. Steer to Jane Addams, August 18, 1912

Jane Addams to John A. Kingsbury, August 19, 1912

Frances Alice Kellor to Jane Addams, August 19, 1912

Annie Smith Peck to Jane Addams, August 20, 1912

The Man Who Does Not Know, ca. August 20, 1912

Frances Alice Kellor to County Chairmen, August 22, 1912.

Frances Alice Kellor to State Chairmen, August 27, 1912

Caroline Louise Dodge to Jane Addams, [September 1912]

Ida Husted Harper to Jane Addams, September 25, 1912

Frances Alice Kellor to Jane Addams, ca. Oct. 1912

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William Loeb, Jr. to Jane Addams, October 7, 1905

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, January 24, 1906

Theodore Roosevelt to William Boyd Allison, January 29, 1907

Theodore Roosevelt to Irving Fisher, May 8, 1907

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, April 6, 1911

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, October 31, 1911

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, August 8, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, August 9, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, August 16, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, November 5, 1912

Secretary to Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, November 29, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Amos Pinchot, December 5, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, December 14, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Amos Pinchot, December 31, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, January 15, 1913

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, February 4, 1913

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, ca. February 14, 1913

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, April 15, 1913

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, September 23, 1913

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, December 14, 1913

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, January 13, 1915

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, January 24, 1915

His Will to Righteousness, January 18, 1919

Simon N. D. North to Theodore Roosevelt, December 7, 1905

Jane Addams to Theodore Roosevelt, August 10, 1912

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Theodore Roosevelt, August 12, 1912

Jane Addams to Theodore Roosevelt, August 24, 1912

Louise de Koven Bowen for Jane Addams to Theodore Roosevelt, August 26, 1912

Jane Addams to Theodore Roosevelt, November 20, 1912

Thomas Robins to Theodore Roosevelt, November 27, 1912

Amos Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt, December 3, 1912

Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt, December 17, 1912

Amos Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt, December 23, 1912

Jane Addams to Theodore Roosevelt, January 20, 1913

Frances Alice Kellor to Theodore Roosevelt, January 24, 1913

Charles Zueblin to Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, July 1913

Announcement, Association pour la Sauvegarde du Droit es Gens, 1915

Jane Addams to Theodore Roosevelt, January 20, 1915

Minutes of the First Meeting of the Progressive Party Legislative Committee, January 9, 1913

Roosevelt, Nicholas (1894-1982)

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Birth Date

1858-10-27

Death Date

1919-01-06

Birthplace

New York City, NY

Biographical Text

Theodore Roosevelt, the scion of a wealthy New York family, attended Harvard University, and entered into Republican Party politics in New York City in 1881, when he was elected to the State Assembly at age 23. From 1895-97 he served as New York City Police Commissioner, then worked in the Navy Department, and with the outbreak of Spanish-American war he formed the Rough Riders, a volunteer regiment with which he became famous for valor in battle. He was elected governor of New York in 1898, elected Vice President to William McKinley in 1901, and assumed the Presidency when McKinley was assassinated. Re-elected in 1904, Roosevelt pushed for a “Square Deal,” a Progressive platform of equality of opportunity, trust-busting, conservation, regulation of business, and ensuring unadulterated food products and patent medicines. His foreign policy focused on American imperialism and the construction of the Panama Canal. Roosevelt supported fellow Republican William Henry Taft, who won the 1908 presidential election, but the two disagreed over progressive policies. In 1912, failing to block Taft’s re-nomination, Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party which split Republican votes and enabled Woodrow Wilson to secure the presidency. He later reconciled with the Republican Party and was an active proponent of the United States entry into World War I. Weakened by diseases contracted while exploring in the Amazon, Roosevelt died at age 58 in 1919.

Theodore Roosevelt married twice, once in 1880 to Alice Lee, who died in 1884. They had one daughter, Alice. In 1886 he married Edith Carow, with whom he had five children, Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin.

Roosevelt likely met Jane Addams in 1901, when he was vice-president elect and visited Hull House in February. He visited Hull House several times, meeting with Addams, and attending social and theatrical events there. Addams supported Roosevelt’s third-party challenge in 1912, though she did not believe he would succeed. Addams seconded Roosevelt’s nomination at the 1912 Progressive Party Convention, a singular honor for a woman. To support Roosevelt and progressivism, Addams undertook a lecture tour and wrote a series of articles in support of the Progressive Party. Despite Roosevelt’s loss, she was pleased with the publicity the pro-suffrage Progressive plank secured. Addams and Roosevelt later disagreed over World War I, and by 1915 he disparaged peace activists as “a shrieking sisterhood,” led by “poor bleeding Jane.”

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Male

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1901

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Miller Center Biography

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Theodore Roosevelt Center

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“Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed June 7, 2023, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/6.