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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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| September 15. Mustering out of the Rough Riders. | |
| September 27. Nominated by the Republican party for governor of New York. | |
| October. Grand campaigning tour through the Empire State. | |
| November. Elected governor of New York by seventeen thousand plurality. | |
| 1899. | January 1. Assumed office as governor of New York. |
| April 10. Delivered famous address on "The Strenuous Life," at Chicago. | |
| September 29 and 30. Governor appointed these days as holidays in honor of a reception to Admiral Dewey; grand water and land processions. | |
| 1900. | June 19. Republican Convention met at Philadelphia; Roosevelt seconded the nomination of McKinley for President (second term), and was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. |
| July, August, and September. Governor Roosevelt travelled 20,000 miles, delivering 673 political speeches at nearly 600 cities and towns. | |
| November 6. McKinley and Roosevelt carried 28 states, Democratic opponents carried 17 states; Republican electoral votes, 292, Democratic and scattering combined, 155. | |
| December. Presided over one short session of the United States Senate. | |
| 1901 | January 11. Started on a five weeks' hunting tour in Northwest Colorado; bringing down many cougars. |
