In 1897, President McKinley appointed Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Roosevelt's enthusiastic support for intervention--he once said, "I should welcome ...

On May 15,1898, Theodore Roosevelt resigned his post as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Roosevelt, who had once said, "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one", left ...

Aroop Mukharji and James R. Holmes will explore Theodore Roosevelt’s influence on U.S. naval power during the 20th annual ...

Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City to glass importer ... and as President of the New York City Police Board (1895). In 1897, he became assistant secretary of the Navy. During the Spanish- ...

This book makes the case that Theodore Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst ... he fails to mention that the orders Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt issued on February 25, 1898, to Commodore ...