This proclamation was issued by Theodore Roosevelt just weeks after President William McKinley died, on Sept. 14, 1901, of wounds inflicted by an assassin a week earlier.

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Theodore Roosevelt. After William McKinley's assassination, Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Washington in 1901 as the youngest president of the United States.

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On Sept. 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in Buffalo and shortly after Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office for president.

Ad Policy. President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. (Bettmann / Getty) For at least two decades now, social critics and commentators have been proclaiming that America is ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after U.S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore ...

Editor’s note: On this Memorial Day, we present an excerpt from a speech of President Theodore Roosevelt, ... after the assassination of William McKinley in September 1901.

To that point in American history, three other presidents had been killed by assassins, including William McKinley, whose death elevated Roosevelt, then the vice president, to the presidency.

Two years later, Roosevelt was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President William McKinley. In this role, T.R. vehemently pushed for war with Spain over the issue of Cuban independence.

When President William McKinley seeks a new running mate, Theodore Roosevelt reluctantly agrees and they win the election of 1900. Then in mid-September, 1901, TR receives word that President ...