Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
Remarkable Career of President
Roosevelt.
YOUNGEST NAN IN UNITED STATES TO
REACH POSITION OF CHIEF MAGISTRATE
STE BY STEP TO HIGH OFFICE.

The honorable ambition OF his life was
crowned today when Theodore Roosevelt
took the oath of Office as twenty-seventh
President of the United States. The tragic
assassination of Mckinney at Buffalo, in
September. 1901. had made him President,
but that WAS not by the election of the peo-
pie of the country. lie had served as TWEEN
ty-sixth President from september II, 1901,
with the same patriotic fidelity be Will put
into his work for the coming four years,
but to know and fee. that his country had
stamped upon him the brand of its conf
dence in preslGenua4 e.ect.on and that
his next administration would be due to his
commission direct from the peop.e were
sources Of unbounded satisfaction.
Looking down upon him IRON the private
gallery OF the Senate. when he took the
oath of Office. was every member of his be
loved family. Surrounding him in TIE
Presidents box of the reviewing stand wien
the marching thousands passed LeGore him
and he received the piaUd Is of many thou
sands on all sides were these same loved
ones. They, too. Joined in the well wishes
and prayers that went up from so many
stanch hearts that the tour years to come
might brIng nothing but satisfaction and
joy to himself ana the country he had
sworn to defend.
Beginning his term as chief executive
when less than fUrty-three years old, the
youngest man in the history of the United
States to have attLiued the CHIEF mag!s-
tracy of the government. President Roose-
welt had overcome many dIiuCuLileS. solved
many great problems and won the good
will OF the people long before the time
came to stand tor the nomination of his
party i'll the last election. But no President
had ever taken up the TenS OF the Once
with a more thorough knowledge of gov
eminent machinery. What he lacked IN
years lie made up in experience with the
affairs of Washington. Service here as civil
service commissioner and as assistant sec
rotary of the navy, together with careful
and arduous study fitted him admirably
to enter upon the duties of the office with
out that fear of the great responsibilities
that would naturally weigh upon a less eN-
perieuCed man. The three years and a half
of his first term have added to his wise and
ripe grasp of the nation business and
doubly fitted him for the years that are TO
come. lie is forty-sIX years Old now, and
when he goes out of office will be fifty, stil
much younger than most men who have he
come President of the country.
Born in New York
Theodore Roosevelt was born in New
York city October -. 1883. He was a son
of Theodore and Martha Roosevelt, his
mother being a Bullock of Georgia, there
being no better family in that state. His
ancestors landed in New Amsterdam New
York, from Holland about 1651 The first
of the family TO come over were Claes Mar
tenzoon Van Roosevelt and his wife. Jan
netze Roosevelt. The family took a prom
inent part in the social and governmental
affairs of the island from that time on.
Theodore Roosevelt did not give promise
of being the healthy, SplCndidly developed
man physically he is today lie was so
frail in health as a boy that his parents
took him away from the McMulIen school
in New York and placed him under private
instructors at home When he was old
enough he was sent to Harvard College and
his physical development began about that
time He loved outdoor exercise and
healthy sports of all kinds While he did
not become a foot ball or base ball celeb
rity in college he was an athlete with
reputation of taking his part. in whatever
was going on. He graduated from Har
ward in 1850, and in September of the same
year married Miss Alice Lee of Boston.
She died in 1889, leaving one child, Miss