September 27. Nominated by the Republican party for governor of
New York.
October. Grand campaigning tour through the Empire State.
November. Elected governor of New York by seventeen thousand
plurality.

1899. January 1. Assumed office as governor of New York.
April 10. Delivered famous address on "The Strenuous Life,"
at Chicago.
September 29 and 30. Governor appointed these days as holidays
in honor of a reception to Admiral Dewey; grand water and land
processions.

1900. June 19. Republican Convention met at Philadelphia; Roosevelt
seconded the nomination of McKinley for President (second term),
and was nominated for the Vice-Presidency.
July, August, and September. Governor Roosevelt travelled 20,000
miles, delivering 673 political speeches at nearly 600 cities
and towns.
November 6. McKinley and Roosevelt carried 28 states, Democratic
opponents carried 17 states; Republican electoral votes, 292,
Democratic and scattering combined, 155.
December. Presided over one short session of the United States
Senate.

1901. January 11. Started on a five weeks' hunting tour in Northwest
Colorado; bringing down many cougars.
April. Attended the dedication of the Pan-American Exposition
buildings at Buffalo, New York, and delivered an address.
September 6. Received word, while at Isle la Motte, Vermont,
that President McKinley had been shot; hurried at once to
Buffalo; assured that the President would recover, joined his
family in the Adirondacks.
September 14. Death of President McKinley. Roosevelt returned
to Buffalo; took the oath of office as President of the United
States at the house of Ansley Wilcox; retained the McKinley
Cabinet.
September 15 to 19. Funeral of President McKinley, at Buffalo,
Washington, and Canton, Ohio. President Roosevelt attended.
September 20. First regular working day of President Roosevelt
at the White House.
December 3. First annual message delivered to Congress.
December 4. Senate received Hay-Pauncefote canal treaty from
the President.
December 17. First break in the McKinley Cabinet. Postmaster
General Smith resigned; was succeeded by H.C. Payne.

1902. January 3. Grand ball at the White House, Miss Alice R