IF HE HAD BEEN AWAKE, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A FIGHT
Oyster Bay (JFK+50) 99 years ago, January 6, 1919, the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt*, passed away quietly in his sleep at his home at Sagamore Hill** here in Oyster Bay, New York.
The former President had been suffering from inflammatory rheumatism, but doctors determined the cause of death was from a "clot of blood which detached itself from a vein and entered the lungs." TR's sudden death took doctors and the Roosevelt family by surprise.
TR died between 4 and 4:15 a.m. Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, upon receiving the news, said...
"Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."
*Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was born in NY City and graduated from Harvard. He served as Asst. Sec of the Navy, Governor of NY, Vice-President and President of the United States.
During the Spanish-American War he was a Colonel in the Volunteer Cavalry known as the Rough Riders.
**Sagamore Hill is located near Oyster Bay on the north shore of Long Island. TR purchased 155 acres for the Queen Anne home which was completed in 1887. Mr. Roosevelt lived here until his death in 1919. The name of the estate comes from a local Native American tribe on Long Island.
Sagamore Hill, which was expanded to 23 rooms, became a National Historic Site in 1962.
SOURCE
"Manners, William. TR and Will: A Friendship That Split the Republican Party," New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969.
Oyster Bay (JFK+50) 99 years ago, January 6, 1919, the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt*, passed away quietly in his sleep at his home at Sagamore Hill** here in Oyster Bay, New York.
The former President had been suffering from inflammatory rheumatism, but doctors determined the cause of death was from a "clot of blood which detached itself from a vein and entered the lungs." TR's sudden death took doctors and the Roosevelt family by surprise.
TR died between 4 and 4:15 a.m. Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, upon receiving the news, said...
"Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."
*Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was born in NY City and graduated from Harvard. He served as Asst. Sec of the Navy, Governor of NY, Vice-President and President of the United States.
During the Spanish-American War he was a Colonel in the Volunteer Cavalry known as the Rough Riders.
**Sagamore Hill is located near Oyster Bay on the north shore of Long Island. TR purchased 155 acres for the Queen Anne home which was completed in 1887. Mr. Roosevelt lived here until his death in 1919. The name of the estate comes from a local Native American tribe on Long Island.
Sagamore Hill, which was expanded to 23 rooms, became a National Historic Site in 1962.
SOURCE
"Manners, William. TR and Will: A Friendship That Split the Republican Party," New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969.
Theodore Roosevelt
by John Singer Sargent
White House Portrait
