Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the Unites States of America, naturalist and writer. He was born in a Dutch-American family in 1858 in New York. He finished his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University. He was elected to the Assembly of New York State from 1882 to 1884. In 1889, he was appointed as a member of Civil Service Commission, and later became the president. In 1895, he started directing the Police Department of New York city and in 1897, he started working as assistant secretary of the Navy.
In 1898, he was elected as the governor of New York and later in 1901 stared serving as the Vice-President. He became the president of the United States in 1901, after President McKinley was assassinated. In 1904, he was elected as 26th president of the U.S.
Along with being busy with politics, President Roosevelt also did academic work. He was an historian and a biographer. He published 26 books and over a thousand articles as well as thousands of speeches and letters.
In 1902, President Roosevelt came forward to open the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague. The court was founded in 1899 during the first Hague Conference, but remained inoperative for three years. In 1905, President Roosevelt acted as mediator between Russia and Japan. He asked the combatants to nominate their emissaries for peace negotiation between them. In August of the same year, they came together at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The several weeks of negotiations wrapped up a peace treaty, which known as one of great peace negotiations in the history.
President Roosevelt was awarded the 1906 Peace Noble Prize due to his effective diplomacy works, especially The Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the 1904 – 1905 war Between Russia and Japan and resolving the long-time dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over the ownership of the Pious Funds of California.