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President Theodore Roosevelt ’s adventurous spirit brought him nearly everywhere, from San Juan to the Amazon. But if any one place can lay claim to the 26 th president of the United States, it’s New York. Roosevelt was born in New York City, died on Long Island, and when fate determined he would ascend to the presidency in 1901, he took his oath of office in Buffalo, the city where his predecessor, William McKinley , had been shot eight days earlier.

Michael Natale The 50 page speech “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual” which slowed an assassin’s bullet on October 14, 1912, on display at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

These pivotal locations in Roosevelt’s life are now

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