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1. Teddy
   Unfortunately, when Teddy was only 18 months old, he was losing control of his eyes. Doctors examined him and the devastating diagnosis for the little guy was Astrocytoma, a brain tumor that had been growing since birth. Astrocytoma is the most common type of primary brain tumor... found throughout the central nervous system.
2. Eleanor Roosevelt
   Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady of the United States from 1933-45, during the four presidential terms of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt was both her birth name and her married name; she was the niece of former president Teddy Roosevelt, and was a distant cousin to her husband Franklin, whom she married in 1905. Eleanor was active in social work and Democratic politics even before her husband became president, and after his election she helped to shape the social programs known as the New Deal. She was a new kind of First Lady: she travelled the country independently of FDR, visited coal miners and factory workers, wrote newspaper columns and opinion pieces, visited soldiers overseas during World War II, and advocated for the poor. After FDR's death, she continued to lecture and write about racial equality, women's rights and world peace. She was ... an American delegate in the early days of the United Nations, a post she held from 1945-52.
3. Theodore Roosevelt -- President Theodore Roosevelt
   Theodore Roosevelt was no longer President of the United States when the Boy Scouts of America was started in 1910. But he was an ardent booster of the organization. He was a troop committeeman of Troop 39, Oyster Bay, N.Y., and first council commissioner of Nassau County Council. As a former President he was elected an Honorary Vice-President of the Boy Scouts of America. He was the first and only man designated as the "Chief Scout Citizen." For many years after his death in 1919, several thousand Scouts and leaders in the New York area made annual pilgrimages to his grave in Oyster Bay.
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Franklin Roosevelt
   In "The Time 100 - the Most Important People of the Century," Franklin Delano Roosevelt is ranked the runner-up most important person of the century - second only to Albert Einstein. Roosevelt is a giant of world history.
5. Theodore Roosevelt
   As a conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt was a major figure in American history. In the North Dakota badlands, where many of his personal concerns first gave rise to his later environmental efforts, Roosevelt is remembered with a national park that bears his name and honors the memory of this great conservationist.
6. Eleanor Roosevelt -- Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady
   Eleanor Roosevelt was an orphaned "ugly-duckling" who grew up to be the First Lady of the World. She was the niece of President Teddy Roosevelt and, as such, was no stranger to the world of politics. As a child she had shown no evidence of an outgoing, political nature. Indeed, she was shy, awkward and withdrawn after having been raised by her strict and dour grandmother. Thus, she was astounded when her ambitious, handsome, and eligible fifth cousin Franklin Roosevelt proposed marriage in 1905.
7. Theodore Roosevelt -- Tr
   The second of the four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt , Theodore Roosevelt (commonly referred to by his initials, TR), was nicknamed "Teedie". TR suffered from asthma and terrible nearsightedness, conditions which his father urged him to supercede by saying, "You have the mind, but not the body; you must make your body." To help his son, Theodore Sr. built a gym at their home where "Teedie" developed a constitution which would later be referred to as "strong as a Bull Moose". In his youth, Theodore (who disliked being called Teddy), travelled with his family throughout Europe where he perfected his command of French and German.
8. Theodore Roosevelt Island
   Operated as a nature preserve and memorial, 88-acre Theodore Roosevelt Island was for most of the 19th century known as Mason's Island, after the family that owned it from 1717 to about 1834. It was later known as Analostan Island. During the Civil War, the island was taken over by the Union Army; an African-American unit, the lst U.S. Colored Troops, was stationed here. Mason's home deteriorated, and the island became the site of outings for Georgetowners and events sponsored by the Columbia Athletic Club.
9. Theodore Roosevelt National Park -- Lands
   Theodore Roosevelt National Park is uncrowded land, far removed from large urban centers. It is a place where visitors can experience the West and get used to lovely solitude in much the same way that young Teddy Roosevelt must have more than a century ago.
10. William Howard Taft -- Theodore Roosevelt
    William Howard Taft was President Roosevelt's chosen successor. He received the nomination on the first ballot. At the Democratic convention in Denver, William Jenning Bryan once again received the nomination on the first ballot.

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