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President Roosevelt's Son THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. President Roosevelt's Son WWI & WWII hero.
A small 3” x 1.5" Note Card Signed, “Good luck! - Theodore Roosevelt”, Choice Crisp Near Mint. Never folded or creased. Traces of prior mounting remnants upon the blank reverse corners.
Theodore D. "Teddy" Roosevelt, Jr. (1887 – 1944), was an American political and business leader, a Medal of Honor recipient who fought in both of the 20th century's world wars. He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt from his second wife Edith Roosevelt. Roosevelt was instrumental in the forming of the American Legion in 1919. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico (1929–32), Governor-General of the Philippines (1932–33), Chairman of the Board of American Express Company, and Vice-President at Doubleday Books, and as a Brigadier General in the United States Army. Throughout World War II, Roosevelt suffered from health problems. He had arthritis, mostly from old World War I injuries, and walked with a cane. He also had heart trouble. On 12 July 1944, one month after the landing at Utah Beach, he died suddenly of a heart attack in his tent in France, at about midnight. He was fifty-six years of age. On the day of his death he had been selected by General Omar Bradley for promotion to Major General and orders had been cut placing him in command of the 90th Infantry Division. These recommendations were sent to General Dwight D. Eisenhower for approval, but when Eisenhower called the next morning to approve them, he had to be told that Roosevelt had died during the night. Roosevelt was buried at the American cemetery in Normandy, initially created for the Americans killed in Normandy during the invasion. He now lies next to his younger brother, Lt. Quentin Roosevelt. Quentin, a pilot, had been killed in France during World War I and was initially buried at Chamery, but was exhumed in 1955 and moved to the Normandy Cemetery, in order to be re-interred next to his brother. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., are one of only two sets of fathers and sons to have been nominated for the Medal of Honor. The other set is Arthur and Douglas MacArthur.