Archibald Roosevelt Archibald Bulloch " Archie " Roosevelt ( April 10 , 1894 – October 13 , 1979 ) , the fifth child of U . S . President Theodore Roosevelt , was a distinguished U . S . Army officer and commander of U . S . forces in both World War I and II . In both conflicts he was wounded . He earned the Silver Star with three oak leaf cluster s , Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster and the French Croix de guerre . After World War II , he became a successful businessman and the founder of a New York City bond brokerage house , as well as a spokesman for ultra right wing political causes . Early life . Archie was born in Washington , D . C . , the fourth child of president Theodore " T . R . " Roosevelt , Jr . and Edith Kermit Carow . He had three brothers , Ted ( Theodore III ) , Kermit , and Quentin , a sister named Ethel , and a half - sister named Alice . Archie was named for his paternal great - great - great grandfather , Archibald Bulloch , a patriot of the American Revolution . As a child , Archie was very quiet but very mischievous - especially when he was with his brother Quentin ; growing up Archie and Quentin were very close . They rarely left each other ' s side and had very few fights . But as for the other siblings , Archie was not close to either Kermit and Ethel because they would gang up on him . Ted would help beat up Kermit for him , and would also tell their mother , Edith , about Ethel - who would often get in trouble . While Alice was ten years older than Archie , he barely remembered her around , since she would go places with other family members and friends . As for his smartness , Archie was an avid reader and very smart at putting puzzles together quickly . His father remarked to him by saying “ Archie , my smart boy , never give up your smartness ; that goes for you and your brother Quentin ” . After being expelled from Groton Archie continued his education at Phillips Academy , Andover , Mass . , the Evans School for Boys , and Harvard University , where he graduated in 1916 . Archie married Grace Lockwood , daughter of Thomas Lockwood and Emmeline Stackpole , at the Emmanuel Church in Boston , Massachusetts on April 14 , 1917 . The couple spent most of their married life in a pre - Revolutionary house on Turkey Lane in Cold Spring Harbor , New York , not far from Oyster Bay , where they had four children : World War I and years later . Archie volunteered for the United States Army during 1917 , shipped over to France , and was wounded while serving with the U . S . 1st Infantry Division . His wounds were so severe he was discharged from the Army with full disability . He had ended the war as an Army captain . For his valor , Archie received two Silver Star Citations ( later converted to the Silver Star medal when it was established in 1932 ) and the French government ' s Croix de Guerre . After the death of his father in 1919 , he was the one who sent a telegram informing all his siblings . After the end of the war , he worked for a time as an executive with the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Company , as vice president of the Union Petroleum Company , the export auxiliary subsidiary of Sinclair Consolidated . At the same time his eldest brother Ted was Assistant Secretary of the Navy . In 1922 , Albert B . Fall , U . S . Secretary of the Interior , leased , without competitive bidding , the Teapot Dome Field to Harry F . Sinclair of Sinclair Oil , and the field at Elk Hills , California , to Edward L . Doheny of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company , both fields part of the Navy ' s petroleum reserves . The connection between the Roosevelt brothers could not be ignored . After Sinclair sailed for Europe to avoid testifying , G . D . Wahlberg , Sinclair ' s private secretary , advised Archibald Roosevelt to resign to save his reputation . Eventually , after resigning from Sinclair , Roosevelt gave key testimony to the Senate Committee on Public Lands probing the Teapot Dome scandal , in which Roosevelt was not implicated , but where Sinclair and Doheny both gave " personal loans " to Secretary Fall . Following this , Roosevelt took a job working for a cousin in the family investment firm , Roosevelt & Son . In the summer of 1932 , Archie , Calvin Coolidge , William Marshall Bullitt , Richard E . Byrd , and James Harbord , among others , formed a conservative pressure group known as the National Economy League , which called for balancing the federal budget by cutting appropriations for veterans in half . World War II : The Battle for Roosevelt Ridge in New Guinea . During 1943 , following the Attack on Pearl Harbor , Roosevelt petitioned President Roosevelt to put his battlefield - honed leadership skills to worthwhile use supporting the war effort . The President approved his request and he rejoined the Army with a commission as a Lieutenant Colonel . Roosevelt was given command in early 1943 of the US Army ' s 2nd Battalion of the 162nd Infantry also called the 162 Regimental Combat Team , ( RCT ) , 41st Infantry Division in New Guinea commanding this unit until early 1944 . Working with the Australian 3rd Division , Roosevelt and his battalion landed in New Guinea ' s Nassau Bay , on July 8 , 1943 . Overcoming significant command ambiguities between American and Australian forces because of overlapping spheres of operation , Roosevelt played an important role in the Salamaua campaign . His service was recognized when one of the hotly contested ridge - lines northwest of the island ' s Tambu Bay was named in his honor . This piece of key terrain during the campaign was originally referred to as " Roosevelt ' s Ridge " to mark the ridge nearest his battalion to higher HQ . Later , it was referred to as " Roosevelt Ridge " as it was depicted in the official American and Australian campaign histories as well as the US Army Air Force World War II Chronology . See left map . On August 12 , 1943 , Roosevelt was wounded by an enemy grenade which shattered the same knee which had been injured in World War I and for which he had been earlier medically retired , earning him the distinction of being the only American to ever be classified as 100 % disabled twice for the same wound incurred in two different wars . At the time of his injury , command of his battalion passed to his executive officer , Major Taylor . Archie returned to his unit in early 1944 . For these actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations , Roosevelt was awarded his second and third oak leaf clusters to the Silver Star in lieu of additional awards . Activism and controversies . Following the end of the war , Archie Roosevelt formed the investment firm of Roosevelt and Cross , a brokerage house specializing in municipal bonds . It is still a going concern with offices in New York City , Providence , Buffalo and Hartford . During the early 1950s , Archie became affiliated with a variety of right wing organizations and causes . He joined the John Birch Society , and was the founder of the controversial Veritas Foundation , dedicated to the routing out of presumed socialist influence at Harvard and other major colleges and universities . Writing in the book " America ' s Political Dynasties " ( Doubleday , 1966 ) , Stephen Hess commented : " Archie Roosevelt has , in recent years , added the family ' s name to many ultra - rightist causes . As a trustee of the Veritas Foundation he was a leader among those seeking to root out subversion at Harvard . He also sent a letter to every U . S . 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 . ' Present civil rights difficulties he blamed on ' socialist plotters . ' " Roosevelt also edited 1968 ' s incendiary " Theodore Roosevelt On Race , Riots , Reds , Crime . " and was the chief sponsor behind " The Alliance , " a short - lived organization of the 1950s . In 1954 , when the Theodore Roosevelt Association made a decision to award the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for Distinguished Public Service to black diplomat Ralph Bunche , Archie loudly protested the award . He 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 . In his introduction to Zygmund Dobbs ' s " The Great Deceit : Social Pseudo - Sciences " ( Sayville , NY : The Veritas Foundation , 1964 ) , Archie wrote : " Socialists have infiltrated our schools , our law courts , our government , our MEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS . . . . the Socialist movement is made up of a relatively small number of people who have developed the TECHNIQUE OF INFLUENCING large masses of people to a VERY HIGH DEGREE . " Later years . Archie ' s wife , Grace Lockwood Roosevelt , died in an automobile crash near her home on Turkey Lane in Cold Spring Harbor in 1971 , with her husband at the wheel . On October 13 , 1979 , Roosevelt died of a stroke at the Stuart Convalescent Home in Stuart , Florida . He was 85 years old . He is buried with his wife at Young ' s Cemetery , Oyster Bay . His tombstone reads : " The old fighting man home from the wars . "