THEODORE ROOSEVELT

[Library of Congress]

1858-1919

26th President (1901-1909), 25th Vice President (1901)

Biographical Data
Religious Views
Quotations
References, Links, & Further Reading

Education: Harvard

Occupation: writer, lawyer

Political Affiliation: Republican

Organizational Affiliation(s): Mason

Religious Affiliation: Dutch Reformed

Summary of Religious Views:

Views on Religion & Politics:

Quotations:

"To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life." -- letter to J. C. Martin, 9 November 1908

"If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office." -- letter to J. C. Martin, 9 November1908

"I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people." -- letter to J. C. Martin, 9 November 1908

"I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools." -- Carnegie Hall address, 12 October 1915

References, Links, & Further Reading: Books, Articles, Links

Books

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Works by Theodore Roosevelt

Books by Theodore Roosevelt (Project Bartleby)
Books by Theodore Roosevelt (Amazon.com)
ed. by Elting E. Morison and John Blum, The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, 8 vols., Harvard Univ. Press, 1951-1954
Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches, Library of America, 2004
Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt, Da Capo, 1985

Biographies

Dan Abrams, Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy, Hanover Square Press, 2019
Howard K. Beale, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1956; reprint, 1984
Susan Berfield, The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism, Bloomsbury, 2020
Michael F. Blake, Go West Mr. President: Theodore Roosevelt's Great Loop Tour of 1903, TwoDot, 2020
John Morton Blum, The Republican Roosevelt, Harvard Univ. Press, 1977
H. W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic, Perseus Books, 1997
Douglas Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Harper, 2009
David H. Burton, Theodore Roosevelt, American Politician: An Assessment, G. K. Hall, 1973
Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Roosevelts: An American Saga, Simon and Schuster, 1994
Richard H. Collin, Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy, and Expansion: A New View of American Imperialism, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1985
Richard H. Collin, Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean: The Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Latin American Context, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1990
John Milton Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard Univ. Press, 1983
Paul R. Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist, Univ. of Illinois Press 1985
Kathleen Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life, Knopf, 2002
Robert V. Friedenberg, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of Militant Decency, Greenwood Press, 1990
Lewis L. Gould, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, Univ. Press of Kansas, 1991
Ed.: Charles Hanson Towne, Roosevelt As the Poets Saw Him, rev. ed., Oxford, 1975
William H. Harbaugh, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, Scribner's, 1923
Paul H. Jeffers, Colonel Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt Goes to War, 1897-1898, Wiley, 1996
Lois Markham, Theodore Roosevelt, Chelsea House, 1985
Frederick Marks, Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1979
David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, Simon and Schuster, 1981
Candice Millard, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey,Doubleday, 2005
Char Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2020
Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life, Morrow, 1992
Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979; reprint, Ballantine, 1980
Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex, Random House, 2001
Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt, Random House, 2010
George Mowry, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912, Harper & Row, 1958
Edward F. O'Keefe, The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President, Simon & Schuster, 2024
Patricia O'Toole, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House, Simon & Schuster, 2005
David Pietrusza, TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy, Lyons Press, 2018
Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography, Harcourt Brace, 1931
Putnam, Carleton, Theodore Roosevelt, I: The Formative Years, 1958
Edward J. Renehan, The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998
Clay Risen, The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century, Scribner, 2019
William Roscoe Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography, Houghton Mifflin, 1919
Edward C. Wagenknecht, The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt, Longmans, Green, 1958
Sarah Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003

Articles

Articles by Theodore Roosevelt
Matthew Spalding, "The Trouble with T R," National Review, 23 February 1998
Mitchell Yockelson, "Theodore Roosevelt and His Quest for Glory," Prologue Magazine, Spring 1998, Vol. 30, No. 1

Links

Works by Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (American Presidency Project)
Speeches (Theodore Roosevelt Association)
Theodore Roosevelt: Historic Speeches (Presidential Rhetoric)
Inaugural Address (AMDOCS)
The Man with the Muck-rake (American Rhetoric)
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena (American Rhetoric)
Nobel Lecture (American Rhetoric)
The Right of the People to Rule (American Rhetoric)
Theodore Roosevelt -- speech extract (Vincent Voice Library -- Michigan State University Libraries)

Biographical Sites

Theodore Roosevelt (POTUS)
Theodore Roosevelt (White House)
ROOSEVELT, Theodore, 1858-1919 (Biographical Directory of the US Congress)
Theodore Roosevelt (American President)
Teddy Roosevelt (USA Presidents)
Theodore Roosevelt -- Biographical (The Nobel Foundation)
TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (The American Experience -- PBS)
Life Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt (C-SPAN)
Theodore Roosevelt Association
Gov. Theodore Roosevelt (National Governors Association)
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (The Spanish American War Centennial Website)
The Roosevelts Move Into the White House, 1901 (Eye Witness)
Theodore Roosevelt -- recorded speech by Leonard Wood, c. 1920 (Library of Congress)
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film (Library of Congress)
Theodore Roosevelt (Medical History of the Presidents of the United States)

Roosevelt, Nature, & Conservation

Theodore Roosevelt (The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 -- Library of Congress)
Theodore Roosevelt (Desert USA)
On Safari With Theodore Roosevelt, 1909 (Eye Witness)