74 Facts About Roosevelt Republican

1. In 1914, Roosevelt Republican decided to run for the US Senate seat for New York.

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2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Republican was the 32nd American president.

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3. Roosevelt Republican was the first president to advocate for a Jewish homeland in Eretz Yisrael.

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4. Roosevelt Republican had visited Eretz Yisrael, then under Ottoman rule, in 1873 as a teenager and written about the trip in his diary, including a description of Jews at prayer at the Kotel.

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5. Roosevelt Republican was instrumental in helping Roosevelt Republican with many of his programs, including Social Security.

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6. Roosevelt Republican was the first statesman to be awarded the Peace Prize, and for the first time the award was controversial.

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7. Roosevelt Republican had become focused on local politics and lost interest in a legal career.

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8. Roosevelt Republican settled a dispute between France and Germany over the division of Morocco.

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9. Roosevelt Republican was the first President to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

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10. Roosevelt Republican agreed because he was thinking of running for President in 1904.

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11. Theodore Roosevelt Republican was one of most dynamic Presidents in White House history, and on the occasion of his birthday, here are 10 fascinating facts about the 26th President.

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12. Roosevelt Republican tried to increase the size of the Supreme Court.

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13. Roosevelt Republican was distantly related to both his wife and 11 other presidents.

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14. Roosevelt Republican took advantage, standing firm against the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy and Japan.

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15. In 1910, at age 28, Roosevelt Republican was invited to run for the New York state senate.

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16. Roosevelt Republican ordered the temporary closure on all banks to halt the run on deposits.

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17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Republican was the 32nd American president who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, greatly expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal.

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18. Eleanor Roosevelt Republican began courting her father's fifth cousin, 20-year-old Harvard student Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1903.

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19. Roosevelt Republican publicly encouraged church attendance, and was a conscientious churchgoer himself.

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20. Roosevelt Republican had a lifelong interest in pursuing what he called, in an 1899 speech, "The Strenuous Life".

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21. In 1907, Roosevelt Republican became embroiled in a widely publicized literary debate known as the nature fakers controversy.

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22. Roosevelt Republican made several campaign appearances for the Progressives, but the 1914 elections were a disaster for the fledgling third party.

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23. Roosevelt Republican respected Wilson, but the two differed on various issues; Wilson opposed any federal intervention regarding women's suffrage or child labor, and attacked Roosevelt's tolerance of large businesses.

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24. Roosevelt Republican was further alienated when Taft, intent on becoming his own man, did not consult him about cabinet appointments.

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25. Roosevelt Republican had attempted to refashion Taft into a younger version of himself, but as soon as Taft began to display his individuality, the former president expressed his disenchantment.

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26. Roosevelt Republican convinced Congress to approve the Panamanian alternative, and a treaty was approved, only to be rejected by the Colombian government.

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27. Roosevelt Republican was particularly concerned with the motives of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm.

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28. Roosevelt Republican extensively used executive orders on a number of occasions to protect forest and wildlife lands during his tenure as President.

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29. Roosevelt Republican served as honorary president of the American School Hygiene Association from 1907 to 1908, and in 1909 he convened the first White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children.

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30. Roosevelt Republican reacted with astonishment and protest, saying that he looked forward to many future dinners with Washington.

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31. Roosevelt Republican was vacationing in Vermont, and traveled to Buffalo to visit McKinley in the hospital.

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32. Roosevelt Republican countered that it was best for the Filipinos to have stability and the Americans to have a proud place in the world.

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33. Roosevelt Republican proved highly energetic and an equal match for Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan's famous barnstorming style of campaigning.

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34. Roosevelt Republican accepted the nomination despite having little hope of winning the race against United Labor Party candidate Henry George and Democratic candidate Abram Hewitt.

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35. On December 2, 1886, Roosevelt Republican married his childhood and family friend, Edith Kermit Carow.

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36. Roosevelt Republican brought his desire to address the common interests of citizens to the West.

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37. Roosevelt Republican learned to ride western style, rope and hunt on the banks of the Little Missouri.

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38. Roosevelt Republican fought hard and succeeded in influencing the Manhattan delegates at the state convention in Utica.

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39. On his 22nd birthday in 1880, Roosevelt Republican married socialite Alice Hathaway Lee.

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40. Roosevelt Republican gave up his earlier plan of studying natural science and instead decided to attend Columbia Law School, moving back into his family's home in New York City.

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41. Roosevelt Republican was mostly home schooled by tutors and his parents.

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42. Roosevelt Republican successfully groomed his close friend, William Howard Taft, and Taft won the 1908 presidential election to succeed him.

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43. Roosevelt Republican served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, but resigned from that post to lead the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War.

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44. Roosevelt Republican used his executive power to further his passion for conservationism.

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45. In 1895, Roosevelt Republican became president of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners, and in 1897 William McKinley named him as assistant secretary of the US Navy.

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46. Theodore Roosevelt Republican was born on October 27, 1858, into a wealthy family in New York City.

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47. In January 1944, Roosevelt Republican established the War Refugee Board to aid Jews and other victims of Axis atrocities.

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48. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt Republican signed Executive Order 9066, which relocated hundreds of thousands of the Japanese-American citizens and immigrants.

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49. Roosevelt Republican was viewed as a hero by many African Americans, Catholics, and Jews, and he was highly successful in attracting large majorities of these voters into his New Deal coalition.

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50. At the conference, Roosevelt Republican announced that he would only accept the unconditional surrender of Germany, Japan, and Italy.

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51. Roosevelt Republican avoided the State Department and conducted high level diplomacy through his aides, especially Harry Hopkins, whose influence was bolstered by his control of the Lend Lease funds.

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52. In 1942, Roosevelt Republican formed a new body, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which made the final decisions on American military strategy.

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53. In late December 1941 Churchill and Roosevelt Republican met at the Arcadia Conference, which established a joint strategy between the US and Britain.

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54. Roosevelt Republican refused to give a definitive statement as to his willingness to be a candidate again, and he even indicated to some ambitious Democrats, such as James Farley, that he would not run for a third term and that they could seek the Democratic nomination.

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55. Roosevelt Republican failed badly, managing to defeat only one target, a conservative Democrat from New York City.

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56. Roosevelt Republican expected that his party would lose several races in the 1934 Congressional elections, as the president's party had done in most previous midterm elections, but the Democrats picked up seats in both houses of Congress.

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57. Roosevelt Republican made agricultural relief a high priority and set up the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

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58. Roosevelt Republican expanded a Hoover agency, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, making it a major source of financing for railroads and industry.

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59. Roosevelt Republican rallied the progressive supporters of the Wilson administration while appealing to many conservatives, establishing himself as the leading candidate in the South and West.

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60. Roosevelt Republican was joined on the campaign trail by Samuel Rosenman, Frances Perkins, and James Farley, all of whom would become important political associates.

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61. In 1938, Roosevelt Republican founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, leading to the development of polio vaccines.

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62. Roosevelt Republican resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy after the Democratic convention and campaigned across the nation for the Cox–Roosevelt ticket.

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63. Roosevelt Republican became very ill with influenza and a complicating pneumonia, but he recovered by the time the ship landed in New York.

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64. Roosevelt Republican requested that he be allowed to serve as a naval officer, but Wilson insisted that he continue to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

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65. Roosevelt Republican learned a valuable lesson, that federal patronage alone, without White House support, could not defeat a strong local organization.

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66. In 1914, Roosevelt Republican made an ill-conceived decision to run for the seat of retiring Republican Senator Elihu Root of New York.

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67. Roosevelt Republican was an attractive recruit for the party because Theodore Roosevelt was still one of the country's most prominent politicians, and a Democratic Roosevelt was good publicity; the candidate could pay for his own campaign.

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68. On March 17, 1905, Roosevelt Republican married Eleanor in New York City, despite the fierce resistance of his mother.

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69. Roosevelt Republican entered Columbia Law School in 1904, but dropped out in 1907 after passing the New York bar exam.

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70. Roosevelt Republican supervised the mobilization of the US economy to support the war effort and implemented a Europe first strategy, making the defeat of Germany a priority over that of Japan.

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71. In 1921, Roosevelt Republican contracted a paralytic illness, believed at the time to be polio, and his legs became permanently paralyzed.

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72. Roosevelt Republican was born in Hyde Park, New York, to a Dutch American family made well known by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States and William Henry Aspinwall.

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73. Roosevelt Republican implemented a wide variety of various ideas during his tenure as President from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909.

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74. Roosevelt Republican is a term used in discussions about politics of the United States to describe people with beliefs reminiscent of American President Theodore Roosevelt, a politician who spent much of his career as a Republican.

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