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PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY

Theodore Roosevelt

1901–1909

Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt served as governor of New York and vice president before succeeding William McKinley in 1901. His administration pursued antitrust cases, conservation measures, and food and drug regulation. In foreign affairs, he supported construction of the Panama Canal and mediated an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt won the 1904 election and remained president until 1909, when William Howard Taft succeeded him.

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