Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1901 — NATION'S NEW CHIEF. [ARTICLE]

NATION'S NEW CHIEF.

Peraonality of Theodore Roosevelt, Who Ie Now President. Born New York City Oct. 27, 1858. Entered Harvard College 1880. Elected to New York Legislature 188 L Re-elected to Legislature 1883. , Defeated for Mayor of New York 1888. Cattle and ranchman 1884 to 1886. Member National Civil Service Commission 1889. New York police commissioner 1894. Assistant Secretary of Navy 1897-98. Cofonel Spanlsh-American war 1808. Governor New York 1899-1900. Vice President United States March 4, 1901. President United States Sept. 15, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt, now President of the United States, is the fifth Vice President of the nation to succeed the President with whom he was chosen to office. John Tyler was the first, succeeding William Henry Harrison. Next came Millard Fillmore, who succeeded Zachary Taylor. Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln sind Chester A. Arthur took the place of James A. Garfield. Three of the five Vice Presidents owe their advancement to the assassin's bullet. • Mr. Roosevelt is better known •to the nation than was Tyler. Fillmore. Johnson or Arthur when the latter became President. Roosevelt has come with credit from the various public tests he has passed through—as legislator, au-