Title: Theodore Roosevelt Description: Theodore Roosevelt (AKA: Teddy; T.R.; October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919), shown in 1879 at Harvard, looking stern before a lightweight championship boxing bout; Roosevelt was an American politician, military leader and twenty-sixth President of the U.S. (September 14, 1901-March 4, 1909); Roosevelt is best remembered as a reformer whose motto was "speak softly and carry a big stick': he helped to eliminate child labor, improved conditions for American workers, served as a heroic military leader during the Spanish-American War (1898) as a colonel commanding the 1st U.S. Cavalry (Rough Riders), who captured San Juan Hill (awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor); he oversaw the digging of the Panama Canal and sent the Great White Fleet to many foreign waters to show American force as well as negotiated the peace for the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace; Roosevelt was profiled in cameo many times in films, but most notably in a wonderful and incisive study by Brian Keith in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion;" Category: U.S. Presidents Keywords: chief executives, boxers, boxing, fighters, fighting, heads of government, heads of state, highest political officials, military leaders, politicians, presidents of the U.S., pugilism, pugilists, U.S. presidents, world leaders. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1050 x 1866 (1.96 MPixels) (9:16) Print Size: 8.9 x 15.8 cm; 3.5 x 6.2 inches File Size: 5.61 MB (5,885,590 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000037077 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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