 
After the unexpected death of president Mckinley in 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took his place.
This table contains the cabinet members he inherited in 1901:
| Secretary of State
| John M. Hay
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| Secretary of Treasury
| Lyman J. Gage
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| Secretary of War
| Elihu Root
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| Attorney General
| Philander C. Knox
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| Postmaster General
| Charles Emory Smith, Henry C. Payne
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| Secretary of the Navy
| James D. Long, William H. Moody
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| Secretary of the Interior
| Ethan A. Hitchcock
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| Secretary of Agriculture
| James Wilson
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| Secretary of Commerce and Labor
| George B. Cortelyou
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In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt was elected president. The election results were the following:
| Theodore Roosevelt
| Electoral votes: 336
| Pop votes: 7,623,486
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| Alton Brooks Parker
| Electoral votes: 140
| Pop votes: 5,077,911
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| Eugene Victor Debs
| Electoral votes: 0
| Pop votes: 402, 283
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| Silas Comfort Swallow
| Electoral votes: 0
| Pop votes: 258,536
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The following table represents Roosevelt's administration for his term that began in 1905.
| Secretary of State
| Elihu Root, Robert Bacon
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| Secretary of Treasury
| Leslie M. Shaw, George B. Cortelyou
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| Secretary of War
| William H. Taft, Luke E. Wright
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| Attorney General
| William H. Moody, Charles J. Bonaparte
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| Postmaster General
| Robert J. Wynne, George B. Cortelyou, George von L. Meyer
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| Secretary of the Navy
| Paul Morton, Charles J. Bonaparte, Victor H. Metcalf, Truman H. Newberry
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| Secretary of Interior
| James R. Garfield
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| Secretary of Agriculture
| James Wilson
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| Secretary of Commerce and Labor
| Victor H. Metcalf, Oscar S. Straus
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This table represents the election in 1912.
Theodore Roosevelt ran again for presidency in 1912 . This time he didn't have much luck.
| Thomas Woodrow Wilson
| Electoral votes: 435
| Pop votes: 6,293
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| Theodore Roosevelt
| Electoral votes: 88
| Pop votes: 4,119,207
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| William Howard Taft
| Electoral votes: 8
| Pop votes: 3,486,333
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| Eugene Victor Debs
| Electoral votes: 0
| Pop vote: 900,369
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President Roosevelt had many achievements such as adding enormous parts to the national forest in the west. Also, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, reached a Gentleman's Agreement on Immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world. Most of his achievements were based on his conservation. Theodore Roosevelt did humanitarian and productive things for our community.
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