Theodore+Roosevelt

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^Andrew Castagna
 * He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1906. He was the first American to win the award.
 * He was the first president to leave office in November of 1906 to go see the construction on the Panama Canal.
 * He was the secretary of the Hasty Pudding Club during his senior year of college.
 * He is the only president that has climbed the Swiss Alps.
 * He begged President Wilson to let him lead troops in World War 1, but was denied.

~ Lauren Wandzilak
 * The 26th president of the United States from 1901-1908
 * Graduated from Harvard in 1880
 * Went to Columbia University Law School for 1 year then dropped out and went into public service
 * He was a "trustbuster" because he tried to stop industrial combinations under the Sherman Antitrust Act
 * Goes against J.P. Morgan in Court and he wins; Morgan's railroad monopoly is terminated

- Hannah Stott
 * He was the first president to be commonly known by his initials.
 * He has be deemed to be the first environmentalist president. In 1906, he signed the National Monuments act, which protected places like the Grand Canyon.
 * He was the youngest president to be elected thus far.(Age 42)
 * His first of several books was //The Naval War of 1812// (1882).
 * Before his presidency, he was elected governor of New York in 1898.
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