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[303] Born in New York, 1858. Graduated at Harvard, 1880; member of New York legislature, 1882–1884; chairman of National Board of Civil Service Commissioners, 1889–1895; president of New York Police Board, 1895–1897; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1897–1898; resigned to organize the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, commonly known as “Roosevelt’s Rough Riders”; distinguished himself in action before Santiago; elected governor of New York, 1898; nominated for Vice President, June, 1900; elected in November, 1900; succeeded to the Presidency on the death of President McKinley, in September, 1901; nominated and elected President in 1904. Is the author of a number of historical works.