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The history of free government is in large part the history of those representative legislative bodies in which, from the earliest times, free government has found its loftiest expression. They must ever hold a peculiar and exalted position in the record which tells how the great nations of the world have endeavored to achieve and preserve orderly freedom. No man can render to his fellows greater service than is rendered by him who, with fearlessness and honesty, with sanity and disinterestedness, does his life work as a member of such a body | Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1 Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents The Project Gutenberg EBook of Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by Theodore Roosevelt This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 of 2 of Supplemental Volume Theodore Roosevelt Supplement Author Theodore Roosevelt Release Date October 29 2004 EBook 13891 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THEODORE ROOSEVELT Produced by Juliet Sutherland David Garcia and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. A COMPILATION OF THE MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS BY JAMES D. RICHARDSON Theodore Roosevelt September 14 1901 Messages Proclamations and Executive Orders to the end of the Fifty-seventh Congress First Session Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt the twenty-seventh President of the United States was born in the city of New York October 27 1858. His ancestors on the paternal side were of an old Knickerbocker family and on the maternal side of Scotch-Irish descent. He was educated at home under private tuition and prepared for matriculation into Harvard where he was graduated in 1880. He spent the year of 1881 in study and travel. During the years 1882-1884 he was an assemblyman in the legislature of New York. During this term of service he introduced the first civil service bill in the legislature in 1883 and its passage was almost simultaneous with the passage of the Civil Service Bill through Congress. In 1884 he was the Chairman of the delegation from New York to the National Republican Convention. He received the nomination for mayor of the city of New York in 1886 as an Independent but was .