Theodore Roosevelt
Medium
Drawing
Classification
Drawing
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number
NPG.73.35
Tags
Pince-nezMustachePortraitHistorianWriterRancherTheodore Roosevelt: MaleColonelTheodore Roosevelt: Nobel PrizeNew York
About this artwork
As Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1897 to 1898, Theodore Roosevelt supervised the building of twenty-six new steel ships. After the explosion of the USS Maine, Roosevelt wrote: “If we will not fight for the blowing up of the MAINE... we are no longer fit to hold up our heads among the nations of earth.“ Roosevelt became second-in-command of the First Volunteer Cavalry, known as the “Rough Riders,” in the Cuban campaign of the war.