Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was born in New York, New York, and died in Sagamore Hill, New York. He served as William McKinley's vice president, and upon McKinley's assassination in 1901 Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States. In 1904 he was elected to a full term as president and served until 1909. Roosevelt introduced what he termed the "Square Deal" by which federal power was used to reign in corporate monopolies and protect consumers and labor. A conservationist, he set aside hundreds of millions of acres of land dedicated to national parks, forests, monuments, and wildlife refuges.
His foreign policy, marked by a combination of aggressive diplomacy and demonstration of military might, transformed the United States into a major world power for the first time. He was instrumental in laying the groundwork for construction of the Panama Canal, which began in 1904, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his involvement in ending the Russo-Japanese War. In 1908 Hayne Davis, 1868-1942, who was an international peace activist, president of the North Carolina Peace Society, and also a Christian Scientist, sent Roosevelt a copy of the April 11, 1908, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel containing Mary Baker Eddy's editorial entitled "War." It outlined Eddy's views on war, arbitration, and armament, which were consonant with Roosevelt's own. Roosevelt wrote a letter back to Davis acknowledging receipt of the Sentinel and expressing his wish that "all other religious leaders showed as much good sense" as did Eddy.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was born in New York, New York, and died in Sagamore Hill, New York. He served as William McKinley's vice president, and upon McKinley's assassination in 1901 Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States. In 1904 he was elected to a full term as president and served until 1909. Roosevelt introduced what he termed the "Square Deal" by which federal power was used to reign in corporate monopolies and protect consumers and labor. A conservationist, he set aside hundreds of millions of acres of land dedicated to national parks, forests, monuments, and wildlife refuges.
His foreign policy, marked by a combination of aggressive diplomacy and demonstration of military might, transformed the United States into a major world power for the first time. He was instrumental in laying the groundwork for construction of the Panama Canal, which began in 1904, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his involvement in ending the Russo-Japanese War. In 1908 Hayne Davis, 1868-1942, who was an international peace activist, president of the North Carolina Peace Society, and also a Christian Scientist, sent Roosevelt a copy of the April 11, 1908, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel containing Mary Baker Eddy's editorial entitled "War." It outlined Eddy's views on war, arbitration, and armament, which were consonant with Roosevelt's own. Roosevelt wrote a letter back to Davis acknowledging receipt of the Sentinel and expressing his wish that "all other religious leaders showed as much good sense" as did Eddy.
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