Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt was a distinguished US Army officer and commander of US forces in both World War I and II, and the fifth child of US President Theodore Roosevelt.
17 Facts About Archibald Roosevelt
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Archibald Roosevelt earned the Silver Star with three oak leaf clusters, Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster and the French Croix de Guerre.
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Archibald Roosevelt went on to Harvard University, where he graduated in 1917.
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Archibald Roosevelt had three brothers, Ted, Kermit, and Quentin, a sister Ethel, and a half-sister Alice.
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Archibald Roosevelt's sister-in-law was Belle Wyatt Willard Roosevelt, and his grandniece was Susan Roosevelt Weld, the former wife of Massachusetts Governor William F Weld.
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Archibald Roosevelt's wounds were so severe he was discharged from the Army with full disability.
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Archibald Roosevelt had ended the war as an Army captain.
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Archibald Roosevelt's service was recognized when one of the hotly contested ridge-lines northwest of the island's Tambu Bay was named in his honor.
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Archibald Roosevelt joined the John Birch Society and was the founder of the Veritas Foundation, which was dedicated to rooting out presumed socialist influences at Harvard and other major colleges and universities.
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Archibald Roosevelt sent a letter to every US Senator, stating 'modern technical civilization does not seem to be as well-handled by the black man as by the white man in the United States.
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Archibald Roosevelt was the chief sponsor behind "The Alliance," a short-lived organization of the 1950s.
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In 1954, when the Theodore Archibald Roosevelt Association made a decision to award the Theodore Archibald Roosevelt Medal for Distinguished Public Service to black diplomat Ralph Bunche, Archie loudly protested the award.
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Archibald Roosevelt even went so far as to write and publish a 44-page pamphlet that attempted to prove Bunche had been working as an agent of the "International Communist Conspiracy" for more than two decades.
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In 1971, Archie's wife, Grace Lockwood Archibald Roosevelt, died in an automobile crash near her home on Turkey Lane in Cold Spring Harbor, with her husband at the wheel.
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On October 13,1979, Archibald Roosevelt died of a stroke at the Stuart Convalescent Home in Stuart, Florida.
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Archibald Roosevelt was 85 years old, the last child of Theodore and Edith to die.
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Archibald Roosevelt is buried with his wife at Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay.