The 26th President of the USA isn’t celebrated enough and that is an issue, he was much more than the 26th president. Theodore Roosevelt Day would be a day to remember well, Theodore Roosevelt. It would be nice if it was on October 27 because that was when he was born. He was named the “Trust Buster” for his efforts to break up industrial combinations that were under the Sherman Antitrust Act. He was also the first president ever too entertain a black man in the White House.
Away from politics, Theodore was awarded the Nobel Peace Award for his negotiations to end the Russian/Japanese War and lead the construction of the Panama Canal. In his early life, he was elected to the New York State Assembly at the age of 23 and served two terms. His wife and mother died on the same day in 1884, the very sad Roosevelt spent the next two years on a ranch he owned in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory, where he hunted, drove cattle and worked as a frontier sheriff. President Benjamin Harrison rewarded Roosevelt’s service to the Republican Party with a job on the U.S. Civil Service Commission, he was reappointed by Harrison’s successor, Grover Cleveland. In 1895 Roosevelt became head of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners, and two years later 1897 named him as assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy.
When he left the Navy in 1898, Theodore Roosevelt became the Colonel of the “Rough Riders”, the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. As colonel he led the Rough Riders into an uphill battle in Battle of San Juan; coming home as one of the wars’ most visible heros. Now, back into politics. On September 6, 1901, a anarchist named Leon Czolgosz shot President McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley died eight days later, and Roosevelt was the 26th president. He was only 42 and the youngest president at the time! Gaining this achievement, his physical strength and good health immediately transformed what the public thought of presidency.
Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” national, program included a promise to fight against large industrial combinations, or trusts, which threatened to restrain trade. his government brought a successful lawsuit under the non-effective Sherman Antitrust Act against the Northern Securities Company, a railroad combination which was started by James J. Hill, E.H. Harriman and J.P. Morgan. He also intervened in a extended coal strike in Pennsylvania, using a combination of negotiations to stop the strike and gain a decent pay increase for the miners. Furthermore, Theodore Roosevelt should have his own holiday and Theodore Roosevelt day is the right way to do it.