Theodore Roosevelt High School - Gary, IN
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N 41° 34.410 W 087° 20.705
16T E 471231 N 4602482
The school is name for Theodore Roosevelt, who was President of the United States, and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, when the school was founded.
Waymark Code: WM6PQ1
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 07/04/2009
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Theodore D. Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier.
As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt prepared for and advocated war with Spain in 1898. He organized and helped command the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment—the Rough Riders—during the Spanish-American War. Returning to New York as a war hero, he was elected governor.
In 1901, as Vice President, the 42-year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley after McKinley's assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance. As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. In 1910, he broke with his friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. He beat Taft in the popular vote and pulled so many Progressives out of the Republican Party that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the Republican Party for the next two decades.
He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize, winning its Peace Prize in 1906, for negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War.
The school originally started at as one room school in 1908. The school moved to the present site in 1921. Famous alumni include Tito Jackson, Avery Brooks, and Glenn Robinson.
Year it was dedicated: 1908
Location of Coordinates: front sidewalk
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