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Definition of President Roosevelt

1. Noun. 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945).

2. Noun. 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration. "Theodore Roosevelt said `Speak softly but carry a big stick'"

Lexicographical Neighbors of President Roosevelt

President Jefferson President John Adams President John F. Kennedy President John Quincy Adams President Johnson President Kennedy President Lincoln President Lyndon Johnson President Madison President McKinley

President Monroe President Nixon President Pierce President Polk President Reagan President Roosevelt (current term) President Taft President Taylor President Theodore Roosevelt President Truman

President Tyler President Van Buren President Washington President William Henry Harrison President Wilson President of the United States Presidential Directive Presidents' Day Presley Presleyesque

Literary usage of President Roosevelt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"Short measure of what President Roosevelt has done. World's Work. 17: 11311-4. Mr. '09. ... What the United States navy owes to President Roosevelt. ..."

2. Complete Life of William McKinley and Story of His Assassination: An by Marshall Everett (1901)
"President Roosevelt TAKES THE OATH OF OFFICE. ... When the news that the President had been shot became public Vice-President Roosevelt was in the East. ..."

3. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Ralph Henry Hess, Charles Kenneth Leith, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"... so when President Roosevelt conservation , . , for the great used this new term and with a marvelous skill £v President Movement, led all his own called ..."

4. Twenty Years of the Republic, 1885-1905 by Harry Thurston Peck (1906)
"CHAPTER XV President Roosevelt ON the afternoon of September i3th, Vice-President Roosevelt was at Lake Colton near the summit of Mount Marcy in the ..."

5. The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United States by Murat Halstead (1902)
"It is a horror upon the land that we have had three Presidents murdered, as President Roosevelt reminds us in his message, "out of the seven last elected. ..."

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