Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He came from a wealthy family in New York City and attended Harvard University. As President, Roosevelt expanded presidential power and designated new national forests, parks, monuments, and game preserves. He also started the Panama Canal and established the Department of Commerce and Labor.

1. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) Luba Shilova Inga Temirova Group 734

2. Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States

3. His family was born into a wealthy family in New York City the second of four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831–1878) and Mittie Bulloch (1835–1884) Had an elder sister Anna and two younger siblings—his brother Elliott and his sister Corinne

4. His education Theodore Roosevelt began his "classroom" education at Harvard, in Cambridge Massachusetts. As a boy Roosevelt had attended school for a short period, but his health prevented normal schooling for much of the time. At Cambridge he would meet some life long friends and colleagues.

5. TR was one of the original members of the American Institute of Arts and Letters was one of the first fifteen elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters was a founder of the Boone and Crocket Club, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Long Island Bird Club also established himself as a historian and as a naturalist

7. Theodore Roosevelt Presidential achievements led us into the arena of international power politics reversed the traditional federal policy of laissez-faire expanded the powers and responsibilities of the Presidential office

8. His specific achievements designated 150 National Forests the first 51 Federal Bird Reservations 5 National Parks the first 18 National Monuments the first 4 National Game Preserves the first 21 Reclamation Projects

9. he began the Panama Canal established the Department of Commerce and Labor negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War

10. Pres. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt seated on lawn, surrounded by their family

11. Roosevelt died in his sleep in the "Gate Room" at Sagamore Hill from a pulmonary embolism

12. "Of all the public men that I have known, on both sides of the Atlantic (and there are few that I have not known in the past thirty years), he stands out the greatest, and as the most potent influence for good upon the life of his generation." Viscount Lee of Fareham, English statesman