Who succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as President?
Theodore Roosevelt desk inches tall. Beginning in the 1940s, each user of the desk signed the interior of the center drawer at the end of his term in office. The desk was designed by architect Charles Follen McKim, who made extensive renovations to the White House during the Theodore Roosevelt Administration. It was made by furniture-maker A. H. Davenport and Company, of Boston, Massachusetts. Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to use the desk, placing it in the Executive Office of the newly built West Wing. Roosevelt's successor, President William Howard Taft, doubled the size of the West Wing and built its first
Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt began on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States upon the assassination and death of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt had been the Vice President of the United States for only days when he succeeded to the presidency. A Republican, he ran for and won a full four-year term as president in 1904, easily defeating Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker. After the Republican victory in the 1908 presidential election, Roosevelt was succeeded by his protege and chosen successor, William