Archibald Roosevelt

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Archibald Bulloch "Archie" Roosevelt (April 10, 1894-1979), the fifth child of US President Theodore Roosevelt, was a vain officer and chief of US forces in both World War I and II.

He was wounded in both wars.

He was awarded the Silver Star with three oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, and the French Croix de guerre.

He became a highly paid businessman and the developer of a New York City bond brokerage firm as well as a spokesman for conservative political causes after World War II.

Early life

Archie was quiet as an infant but very mischievous, especially when he was with his brother Quentin; as the time went, Archie and Quentin were close; growing up, Archie and Quentin were very close. They rarely stayed on each other's side and had few fights. However, Archie was not close to either Kermit or Ethel because they would not be ganged up on him. Ted will help beat Kermit for the first time, and he'll also warn their mother, Edith, that Ethel can be a little bit dangerous. Alice was ten years older than Archie and he barely remembered her being around, since she would often go places with other family members and acquaintances. Archie was a voracious reader and an expert at putting puzzles together quickly. "Archie, my intelligent boy, never give up your intelligence; that goes for you and your brother Quentin."

Archie was a freshman at the Force School and Sidwell Friends School. Archie continued his education at the Evans School for Boys and graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1913. He then went to Harvard University, where he graduated in 1917.

Archie was born in Washington, D.C., and the fourth child of President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr., and Edith Kermit Carow. Ted (Theodore III), Kermit, and Quentin, a sister Ethel, and a half-sister Alice were among his three brothers. Archie was named after his maternal great-great-grandfather, Archibald Bulloch, a patriot of the American Revolution.

Eleanor Roosevelt was his first cousin and his fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was once removed. He was uncle to Kermit Roosevelt Jr., Joseph Willard Roosevelt, Dirck Roosevelt, Belle Wyatt "Clochette" Roosevelt, Helen Green Roosevelt, Cornelius V.S. Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt II. Belle Wyatt Willard Roosevelt's sister-in-law, and his grandniece, Susan Roosevelt Weld, was Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld's former wife.

Personal life

On April 14, 1917, Archie married Grace Lockwood, the daughter of Thomas Lockwood and Emmeline Stackpole, at the Emmanuel Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The couple spent the majority of their married life in a pre-Revolutionary house on Turkey Lane in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, not far from Oyster Bay, where they had four children.

Grace Lockwood Roosevelt, Archie's wife, died in a car crash on Turkey Lane in Cold Spring Harbor with her husband at the wheel in 1971.

Roosevelt died of a stroke at Stuart Convalescent Home in Stuart, Florida, on October 13, 1979. He was 85 years old, the last child of Theodore and Edith, (though his half-sister Alice would outlive him by four months). At Youngs Memorial Cemetery in Oyster Bay, he and his wife are buried. "The old war man home from war," the tombstone reads.

Tweed Roosevelt, Roosevelt's grandson, is the grandson of Tweed Roosevelt (b. ). 1942 (Japan, chairman of Roosevelt China Investments, and Theodore Roosevelt Association's President is the President of the Board of Trustees.

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Military career

Archie served with the United States Army during 1917, moved over to France, and was wounded while serving with the 1st Infantry Division. His wounds were so bad he was forced to leave the Army with complete disability. He had been fighting as an Army captain and had completed the war. Archie received two Silver Star Citations (later upgraded to the Silver Star medal after its establishment in 1932) and the French government's Croix de Guerre in recognition for his vainness.

After his father's death in 1919, he sent a letter to all his relatives that "the old lion is dead."

After the war, he served for a time as vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Company, the export auxiliary of Sinclair Consolidated. Ted, his eldest brother, was Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the same time. Albert B. n. 1922 Albert B.n't know any about him. The Teapot Dome Field to Harry F. Sinclair of Sinclair Oil and the field at Elk Hills, California, are among the Navy's petroleum reserves that are not competitive bidding. The Roosevelt brothers' friendship could not be dismissed. G. D. Wahlberg, Sinclair's personal secretary, advised Archibald Roosevelt to resign to protect his image after Sinclair departed for Europe to avoid testifying. Roosevelt eventually testified before resigning from Sinclair, but where Sinclair and Doheny gave Secretary Fall "personal loans." Roosevelt took up a job with a cousin in the family investment firm Roosevelt & Son.

Former President Calvin Coolidge, former Solicitor General William Marshall Bullitt, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, and General James Harbord, among others, formed the National Economy League, a conservative pressure group that called for balancing the federal budget by cutting appropriations for veterans in half in the summer of 1932.

Roosevelt begged President Franklin D. Roosevelt to put his battlefield-honed leadership skills to good use supporting the war effort following the Pearl Harbor attack. The president accepted his request, reserving the Army with a rank as a Major. Roosevelt was given command of the US Army's 3rd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment's 162nd Infantry Regiment's in early 1943, which included the 41st Infantry Division, which also identified the 162 Regimental Combat Team (RCT), which was not in charge of this unit until early 1944. Roosevelt and his infantry were sent by the Australian 3rd Division in Nassau Bay, New Guinea, on July 8, 1943.

Roosevelt was instrumental in the Salamau campaign, despite significant command ambiguities between American and Australian forces because of their respective domains of activity. His service was acknowledged when one of the island's Tambu Bay's northwest ridge-lines was dubbed in his honor. This section of vital terrain during the campaign was initially referred to as "Roosevelt's Ridge" to mark the ridge nearest his battalion's higher HQ. It was later identified as "Roosevelt Ridge" as it was depicted in official American and Australian campaign histories, as well as the US Army Air Force's World War II Chronology. See the left map.

Roosevelt was wounded in a grenade that had broken the same knee that had been wounded in World War II and for which he had been later medically retired on August 12, 1943, giving him the distinction of being the only American to be 100% disabled twice for the same wound suffered in two separate wars. Major Taylor, the command of his battalion at the time of his injury, was handed over to his executive officer at the time of his injury. In early 1944, Archie returned to his unit. In lieu of additional prizes, Roosevelt was given his second and third oak leaf clusters for his efforts in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

Later career

Following the war's conclusion, Archie Roosevelt founded Roosevelt & Cross, a brokerage house specializing in municipal bonds. With offices in New York City, Providence, Buffalo, and Hartford, it is still a running issue. He joined the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, which was both his father and elder brother were active in 1953.

Archie became involved with a variety of right-wing groups and causes in the early 1950s. He joined the John Birch Society and was the founder of the Veritas Foundation, which was dedicated to combating suspected socialist influence at Harvard and other major colleges and universities. "Archie Roosevelt has, in recent years, contributed the family's name to several ultra-rightist causes," Stephen Hess wrote in America's Political Dynasties (Doubleday, 1966). He was a founder of those attempting to root out subversion at Harvard as a trustee of the Veritas Foundation. He also sent a letter to every resident in the United States. 'modern technological civilization does not seem to be as well-handled by the black man as by the white man in the United States,' Senator Leo Varadkar said.' He attributed the current civil rights difficulties to "sociist plotters." Theodore Roosevelt, a poet from 1968, also wrote an Incendiary. He was also the main sponsor of "The Alliance," a short-lived organisation of the 1950s.

When the Theodore Roosevelt Association decided to award the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for Distinguished Public Service to black diplomat Ralph Bunche in 1954, Archie protested the award. He went so far as to write and publish a 44-page pamphlet that claimed that Bunche had been working as an agent of the "International Communist Conspiracy" for more than two decades.

Archie was also president of The Alliance, Inc., where Zygmund Dobbs was Research Director. Forewords, Dobbs' books Red Intrigue and Race Turmoil were published (New York: The Alliance, Inc., 1958), for which Archie wrote forewords. "Socialists have infiltrated our classrooms, our courthouse, our government, and our MEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS," Archie wrote in the foreword to The Great Deceit. In his 1969 motion picture lecture More Deadly Than War... the Communist Revolution in America's Color, Communism, and Common Sense was quoted by Johnson. Roosevelt, president of The Alliance, Inc., wrote the preface to Manning Johnson's semi-memoir, semi-polemical tract Color, Communism, and Common Sense in 1958.

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