Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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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 |