President Theodore Roosevelt sent a fleet including 16 capital ships around the world as a demonstration of American power.

After the election of President William McKinley in 1896, Theodore Roosevelt lobbies hard to be named Assistant Secretary of the Navy. When the US battleship Maine blows up in Havana harbor on ...

In the end, McKinley-Roosevelt won by a landslide. On September 14, 1901, when William McKinley died of bullet wounds inflicted by an assassin, Theodore Roosevelt became the nation's 26th president.

After William McKinley's assassination, Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Washington in 1901 as the youngest president of the United States. He is unwilling to let Congress dictate federal policies ...

Campaign In 1901, Roosevelt became the 25th Vice President of the United States. On September 14, 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated. At the age of 42, Theodore Roosevelt became the ...

anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots President William McKinley. McKinley dies eight days later. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, at 42, becomes the youngest U.S. president. Anthony F. Luchich ...

William McKinley belongs, in many ways ... often overshadowed in historical memory by his flamboyant successor, Theodore Roosevelt, whose elevation to the chief executive’s office is seen ...

Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin Delano Roosevelts. Now Donald Trump sees ...

On Jan. 6, 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in ... In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated, and Roosevelt, 43 years old, became the youngest president ever to assume ...