Theodore Roosevelt Fast Facts
- at 42, the youngest President in American history when inaugurated
- the first President to officially use the term "White House"
- the only President born in New York City
- the first President to go abroad in office
(Panama to check on canal construction)
- the first President to submerge in a submarine
- the first President to fly in an airplane
- hero of Spanish-American War
- governor of New York
- used the Antiquities Act to create the first 18 national monuments
- received Medal of Honor (posthumously)
