FAVORITE PRESIDENT

PRESENTATION II:
THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
David Aguilar
CLAS1120U
7/14/2019
 Roosevelt’s Final Days

Theodore Roosevelt spent his final days

at his home in Sagamore Hill in Cove
Neck, New York.

Roosevelt died in his sleep on January 6,

1919 at the age of 60.

Sagamore Hill
 Details of Actual Death
 Roosevelt died as a result of a blood clot which
detached from a vein and entered his lungs.
 His death came as surprise to his physicians as it
was not linked to the inflammatory rheumatism
which had been affecting him.
 It is possible that Roosevelt’s condition resulted
from a fever contracted during his expedition in
Brazil.
 Roosevelt was active on the day prior to his
death, only experiencing some difficulty
breathing which later passed. Roosevelt’s Funeral in
 Later that night, Roosevelt appeared to have Oyster Bay, New York
slept normally but his breathing problems
returned, and in the early morning he was
discovered to have stopped breathing.
 Roosevelt’s Funeral
 Roosevelt was buried at Youngs Memorial
Cemetery on January 8, 1919.
 Following a funeral service at Christ Church
in Oyster Bay, a procession was made up a
hill to the grave site.
 Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, Charles
Evans Hughes, Warren G. Harding, Henry
Cabot Lodge, and William Howard Taft
were in attendance.
 Thomas Marshall famously said about
Roosevelt: "Death had to take Roosevelt
sleeping, for if he had been awake, there
Vice President Marshall and
would have been a fight."
William Taft at Roosevelt’s Funeral
 Roosevelt in American Memory
 Roosevelt is remembered as one of
America’s most outgoing and outspoken
presidents.
 As an environmentalist and progressivist,
Roosevelt was responsible for the creation
of numerous national parks and was an
advocate for conservation. Under his
administration, Roosevelt also passed
several progressive bills to help America’s
social welfare.
 Roosevelt saw the role of president as a
“steward of the people,” and with his
Square Deal policy sought to defend the
average American from plutocracy and
government corruption, as well as elevate
the middle class.
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 Gravesite. (n.d.). Retrieved July 14, 2019, from https://www.trgravesite.org/gravesite.html

 Bleyer, B. (2019, January 07). Teddy Roosevelt died 100 years ago on LI. Retrieved July 14, 2019, from
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 Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy. (2017, September 07). Retrieved July 14, 2019, from
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