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The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt started on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt had been the vice president for only 194 days when he succeeded to the presidency.
Succeeded to one partial term (3 years, 9 months, and 8 days), followed by one full term 16: Theodore Roosevelt: 2,728 26th • September 14, 1901 [h] – March 4, 1909: Succeeded to one partial term (3 years, 5 months, and 18 days), followed by one full term [i] 17: Calvin Coolidge: 2,041 30th • August 2, 1923 [h] – March 4, 1929
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. [b] (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T. ... As his term progressed, Roosevelt pondered a 1904 run, but was ...
Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, ... Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
November 9 - Roosevelt visits the Panama Canal Zone to oversee the construction of the Panama Canal, becoming the first sitting president to leave the mainland United States. December 3 - Roosevelt delivers the 1906 State of the Union Address. [21] December 3 - Roosevelt nominates Attorney General William Henry Moody to the Supreme Court.
The two-term limit tradition was maintained unofficially for 132 years. It was unsuccessfully challenged by Ulysses Grant in 1880, [13] Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, [14] and Woodrow Wilson in 1920. [15] Franklin D. Roosevelt successfully ran for a third term in 1940, citing the outbreak of World War II. [16]
Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency on September 14, 1901, following William McKinley's assassination (194 days into his second term), and was handily elected to a full term in 1904. He declined to seek a third (second full) term in 1908, but did run again in the 1912 election, losing to Woodrow Wilson. Wilson himself, despite his ...
Theodore Roosevelt - unanimously 1912 United States presidential election : Woodrow Wilson / Thomas R. Marshall (D) - 6,296,284 (41.8%) and 435 electoral votes (81.92%, 40 states carried)