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 ...

Acting United States Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned on Tuesday ... Modly stepped down five days after removing the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier for writing a ...

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- ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 ...

On Jan. 6, 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep ... He served in state and national posts, and in 1898, as assistant secretary to the U.S. Navy, Roosevelt vehemently ...