HARVARD UNIVERSITY - THEODORE ROOSEVELT JR. PAPERS
Biographical Note
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 Date         Event

 1887 , Sept.
 13           Born, Oyster Bay, N.Y.

 1908         A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

 1910         Married Eleanor Butler Alexander (died 1960)

 1910 - 1917  Engaged in business

 1917 , June  Arrived in France with the U.S. Army's First Division,
              American Expeditionary Forces

 1918         Promoted to lieutenant colonel

 1919         Helped organize the American Legion
              Published Average Americans (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
              252 pp.)

 1919 - 1920  Member, New York State Assembly

 1921 - 1924  Assistant secretary of the navy

 1922         Chairman, Committee of Naval Experts at Limitation of
              Armament Conference


 1924         Republican candidate for governor of New York

 1925 - 1926  Led James Simpson-Roosevelt Asiatic expedition

 1926         Published with Kermit Roosevelt East of the Sun and West of
              the Moon (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 284 pp.)

 1928         Published Rank and File; True Stories of the Great War (New
              York: C. Scribner's Sons. 279 pp.)

 1928 - 1929  Led Kelley-Roosevelt-Field Museum expedition, Asia

 1929         Published All In the Family (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
              189 pp.)
              Published with Kermit Roosevelt Trailing the Giant Panda
              (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 278 pp.)

 1929 - 1932  Governor, Puerto Rico

 1932 - 1933  Governor General, the Philippines

 1933         Published with Harold J. Coolidge Three Kingdoms of
              Indo-China(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 331 pp.)

 1934 - 1935  Chairman of the Board, American Express Co.

 1935         Vice president, Doubleday, Doran and Co.

 1937         Published Colonial Policies Of the United States (Garden
              City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran. 204 pp.)

 1941         Returned to active duty in the U.S. Army; promoted to
              brigadier general

 1944 , July
 12           Died in France