Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1887, Sept. 13 | Born, Oyster Bay, N.Y. |
| 1908 | A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1910 | Married Eleanor Butler Alexander (died 1960) |
| 1910-1917 | Engaged in business |
| 1917, June | Arrived in France with the U.S. Army's First Division, American Expeditionary Forces |
| 1918 | Promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| 1919 | Helped organize the American Legion Published Average Americans (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 252 pp.) |
| 1919-1920 | Member, New York State Assembly |
| 1921-1924 | Assistant secretary of the navy |
| 1922 | Chairman, Committee of Naval Experts at Limitation of Armament Conference |
| 1924 | Republican candidate for governor of New York |
| 1925-1926 | Led James Simpson-Roosevelt Asiatic expedition |
| 1926 | Published with Kermit Roosevelt East of the Sun and West of the Moon (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 284 pp.) |
| 1928 | Published Rank and File; True Stories of the Great War (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 279 pp.) |
| 1928-1929 | Led Kelley-Roosevelt-Field Museum expedition, Asia |
| 1929 | Published All In the Family (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 189 pp.) Published with Kermit Roosevelt Trailing the Giant Panda (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 278 pp.) |
| 1929-1932 | Governor, Puerto Rico |
| 1932-1933 | Governor General, the Philippines |
| 1933 | Published with Harold J. Coolidge Three Kingdoms of Indo-China(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 331 pp.) |
| 1934-1935 | Chairman of the Board, American Express Co. |
| 1935 | Vice president, Doubleday, Doran and Co. |
| 1937 | Published Colonial Policies Of the United States (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran. 204 pp.) |
| 1941 | Returned to active duty in the U.S. Army; promoted to brigadier general |
| 1944, July 12 | Died in France |