What Happened To Theodore Roosevelt's 6 Children?

We all remember Teddy Roosevelt - one of the most iconic presidents in American history. But what about his children? From war heroes to political influencers, here's the truth about his influential kids.
#TheodoreRoosevelt #President #Children
Alice Roosevelt Longworth | 0:00
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. | 1:32
Kermit Roosevelt | 2:39
Ethel Roosevelt Derby | 3:47
Archie Roosevelt | 4:53
Quentin Roosevelt | 6:01
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[@GrungeHQ]

How would you rate Theodore Roosevelt's presidency?

[@allan9603]

Grunge give us your opinion on Roosevelt's presidency here in the Comments section.

[@a.leemorrisjr.9255]

He was a center right progressive republican & definitely one of our better presidents. The first to successfully take on the Robber Barons & broke the power of their monopolies.

[@hanshawks5088]

#2 only too FDR

[@p3tur]

He was cool 😎

[@gemini730lory8]

💙

[@kibblenbits]

I read that Alice had an embroidered throw pillow on her couch, and it read: "If you can't say anything nice about anyone, sit right here by me". That alone made me like a person I never met.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Why is rudeness prized now?

[@sugarkane4830]

@@YeshuaKingMessiahNo but good humour is.

[@zzydny]

One incidental but interesting note about Alice: she inspired the name of the color Alice Blue (a pale white-blue shade with a hint of green) by wearing a gown of that color. This, in turn, inspired a fashion sensation and a song called Alice Blue Gown that was part of a Broadway production which later became a movie. The color is also specified by the US Navy for the insignia and trim on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. It's kinda amazing that this all came from a favorite color and a pretty dress.

[@ailsasublett9885]

I know all the lyrics.😊

[@jamesl9371]

I read a biography of Teddy and something I found very interesting was his father and the relationship between them. Of course his father was rich and they lived in New York City. But also his father was very loving and supportive and spent a lot of time and energy on his children. He helped publish Teddy’s first book. Teddy Roosevelt authored more books than any other president

[@oneeyedman99]

Don't know which book you're talking about but David McCullough's Mornings on Horseback, specifically about his early years, is excellent.

[@bettyjones113]

How many books compared to Jimmy Carter? Curious Also, didn’t Teddy establish the US National Park System? Puts him in my top five

[@oneeyedman99]

@@bettyjones113 Roosevelt was a professional author--arguably the only one to become president. He wrote 47 books.

[@jamesl9371]

@@bettyjones113 sorry I don’t know. You’d have to google it

[@allenboyer2207]

My Dad was born in a place called Quentin, a town that re-named itself to honor Roosevelt's son after his death.

[@julianaylor4351]

This is a family, who appears to encourage its children to do their best; if only other families were like that. My parents were like that too, encouraging my brothers and I to do our best.

[@oneeyedman99]

Ted Roosevelt's conduct at Normandy was a story in itself. His fellow generals were both astonished by, and very appreciative of, his courage and leadership.

[@gruntforever7437]

Patton called him one of the bravest men he ever met

[@JT-qm3kn]

Not only did his first born Alice, out live all her siblings, she sadly even outlived her only child and daughter, Paulina. Very sad 😞

[@kimmickal]

Did her daughter have children?

[@JT-qm3kn]

@@kimmickal i don’t remember, but I think she had a daughter too. You can google it for more details. 😊

[@ggsilik]

​@kimmickal Paulina had a daughter, Joanna, in 1946, who is still alive in 2023 🙂 (Joanna also has a daughter)

[@bethr8756]

Not totally sad. She had a long life.

[@JT-qm3kn]

@@bethr8756 Yes, she lived a long life. Hence our living everyone in her family. But she didn’t have a happy life. And one tragedy after another. I’d rather live less and be happier 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@aldosigmann419]

Wow politicians kids on the front line - extremely commendable!

[@herondelatorre4023]

Theodore Roosevelt : 1858 - 1919 , his first wife Alice Lee Roosevelt : 1860 - 1884, his second wife Edith Roosevelt : 1861 - 1948 ; Child by wife Alice Lee ; Daughter Alice Roosevelt : 1884 - 1980 ; Children by wife Edith ; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. : 1887 - 1944, Kermit Roosevelt : 1889 - 1943, Ethel Roosevelt : 1891 - 1977, Archibald Roosevelt : 1893 - 1979, and Quentin Roosevelt : 1897 - 1918

[@jumpingjacks5558]

He was a great man. He had a lot of great quotes. "There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle". Roosevelt never mixed words. When he graduated from college, He was traveling home. He stopped at a roadside cantina and ordered a coffee. There was a drunkard in the establishment who began to pick on Roosevelt. The drunkard began bullying Roosevelt until a fight broke out. Roosevelt beat the man badly. Roosevelt was a great boxer as well.

[@edw8889]

Way to pick out a violent quote. I’m sure he said non gun related stuff

[@jumpingjacks5558]

If you don't like what I wrote, don't read it and certainly don't respond to it. Roosevelt was a symbol of of strength to the nation at that time. @@edw8889

[@montanamountainmen6104]

@@edw8889 Teddy never minced words. He said, " You are either a American or you are not. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American. "

[@JSwan-bd1tc]

The town of Bismark Pennsylvania changed its name to Quentin in honor the President's son after his death in WWI.

[@zanishabrown3021]

Coming from a military family, its good to see the sons of a politician serve this country and go on to get an education.

[@nrkgalt]

The number of children of incumbent presidents who served in a war is actually very small. Theodore Roosevelt was already out of the White House when his sons and daughter served in WWI. Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert was a staff officer during the Civil War, but he was never in combat. All 4 of Franklin Roosevelt’s sons were in combat in WWII. John Eisenhower was moved to a staff position when his father became a presidential candidate. Other than that, most wartime presidents either had no surviving children or only had daughters. I don’t recall anyone saying that Margaret Truman should have gone to Korea or that Johnson or Nixon’s daughters should have gone to Vietnam.

[@prtdiva]

@@nrkgaltbecause obviously, women didn’t fight in wars during those times. So of course no one would ask that. The most women did was nursing in wars.

[@user-yn8qi4fn4y]

Gayla believe

[@Tomthestarhartnell]

I'd say most of us don't remember Teddy Roosevelt, most of the people who were alive during his presidency are now dead, but we were taught about how he's one of the greatest of all time.

[@Corvacar]

I kindly differ w/You. The Man Whose assassination launched Ted into the Vice Presidency, should have His Bust up on the Granite Mountain in South Dakota, not Ted. I referring to William McKinley.

[@Tomthestarhartnell]

@@Corvacar that's a complete oversight, McKinley was a good president and is unjustly underrated, but he wasn't on the same level of TR. Also note that of the four on the monument, Teddy was the builder's personal favorite, and of the 4 the only one I'd swap out is Tommy.

[@katrinaelder3513]

Read his autobiography. I have a great admiration for him. He was something else!!!

[@patchadams4me]

Straight to the point and very well done. Thank you!

[@diannemose244]

Thank you for the information. My favorite Theodore Roosevelt quote: when you're going through hell keep going

[@AQuietNight]

This quote is often attributed to Winston Churchill but there is no record of him using it. Same for Theodore Roosevelt, no record of him using it. Here's a Theodore Roosevelt quote you might like: “If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”

[@lijo4518]

I like how Roosevelt was an outdoors man & truly appreciated nature by preserving it forever...he defiantly belongs on Mt Rushmore w the other great presidents. And of course we would've never had teddy bears if it wasn't for him 🫶

[@gjh997]

Fantastic legacies of his children. Shows how much of a good father he was.

[@BORN-to-Run]

NOT only was he a good father, but his ANCESTORS were good people, and like the Good Book says, "The blessings of the parents shall be visited upon their children to the 3rd and 4th generations." He came from GOOD STOCK!

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

I do wonder what went wrong for his eldest child from his first marriage to have survived all of his children from his second marriage. That's tragic.

[@BORN-to-Run]

His ANCESTORS were good people; and like the Good Book says, "The blessings of the parents shall be visited upon their children to the 3rd and 4th generations." He came from GOOD STOCK!

[@nancyekstrom8409]

Actually, the Bible says that the SINS of the fathers shall be visited upon their sons, even unto the third and fourth generations. This idea is stated in several places-Exodus, Deuteronomy, Numbers, Jeremiah, Leviticus, etc.

[@williamtyre523]

Interesting video, thank you for compiling this information. One correction - at 4:38 you discuss the Roosevelt family home, but the image shows the Hyde Park home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not the Oyster Bay home of Theodore Roosevelt.

[@andrewlayton9760]

Nor was it the home of Mrs. Derby.

[@frostpond]

THANK YOU!

[@lbelton8886]

Yeah, wondered about that. Didn't he have shingled Queen Anne styled house built on Sangamon Hill?

[@williamtyre523]

Yes, the house is known as Sagamore Hill and is located in Oyster Bay, NY. It is a National Historic Site open to the public and well worth a visit!

[@marthamarlette1193]

Big OOPS! When referring to the house at Oyster Bay, Long Island (Sagamore Hill), an image of FDR’s home (Springwood), way up the Hudson Valley, is shown. Research! Homework!

[@bluejay1ful]

Yep, I noticed that too.

[@user-tf7ur7xe3f]

This story is well Done 👍🏾. A+

[@angelogarcia2189]

Its funny that FDR and Eleanor were cousins. She didn't even have to change her las name. Lol

[@KC-gy5xw]

Kermit. My wonderful late dad's first name. So many men born in the 1910/20s given the name Kermit in Jamaica (the Scottish influence). I have a real feeling for Kermit Roosevelt, I must say..

[@broadwaybaby348]

Trivia for Rex Stout fans: Archie Goodwin was named after Archie Roosevelt. As a very young man Stout served in the navy for two years as a Yeoman on Roosevelt's presidential yacht, and he looked up to Teddy as a father figure.

[@d.owczarzak6888]

I once read that even as a teenager, Alice would throw a tantrum if she didn't get her way.

[@paulabarch5065]

And then she got her way. It worked every time. But tantrums or not- Alice had the spotlight and the love and attention of her doting dad.

[@edlane9882]

Officers do NOT reenlist (2:30). They are either recalled to active duty or commissioned once again. A Medal of Honor is not earned (as in a reward) it is garnered or bestowed. A feather merchant wrote this posting.

[@jeffharting4138]

Interesting video but the home you show at 4:40 is FDRs home at Hyde Park.

[@raodurvasula125]

Comparing Roosevelt to the one who we have now is the biggest stretch.

[@legolwa]

Trump is crap. None of what the honorable TR exhibited.

[@user-ho4nw5sf3w]

Two of his sons died in combat. Quintin in France in the First World War. And Teddy Jr a couple days after leading the invasion on Utah beech June 1944. This was a different generation who didnt think it was yhe other guys responsibility to protect this country. FDR kids served also. Ive alot of respect for that.

[@tinahildenbrand1477]

The image at 4:46 is FDR's home and not Teddy's!

[@bethtyree6346]

Thank you for telling their story

[@richardadams5914]

You have identified FDR home in your video as TR’s. FDR’s home is on the Hudson River in Hyde Park, TR’s is in Oyster-Bay Long Island.

[@lindalaffan949]

Saw that too.

[@sallykohorst8803]

Yes thanks for this subject

[@davidmelton2091]

Interesting story and thanks for sharing it

[@Cspspack]

I wish I was related to Teddy R. He was so cool and such a better father than FDR and Eleanor.

[@carmelmhennessy9738]

Interesting. Thank you

[@robinhumphrey2692]

Excellent!

[@Tomthestarhartnell]

Fun Fact, the oldest person alive today is a Spanish woman who was born in San Francisco during Teddy's presidency. So she may remember Teddy Roosevelt, but that's not a guarantee

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Kermit Roosevelt had a son, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr, who became an agent in the C.I.A. In fact, he was involved in the agency-instigated coup d'etat in Iran in 1953, which led to the overthrow of its Prime Minister and his being replaced by Shah (King) Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who ruled from 1953 until his own overthrow in 1979, because of corruption in his regime, unequal distribution of oil wealth (thus leading to massive poverty among the people), and political oppression and persecution, including tortures and murders of dissidents by the SAVAK (Secret Police). Defenders of the Shah (especially those in the United States Government) argued that the Iranian coup was necessary because the Prime Minister was becoming too friendly with the Soviet Union, which they believed would lead Iran to become a Communist state (this was the height of the Cold War and the McCarthy Era). Critics of the coup (and the Shah) argued that there was little to no danger of a Communist takeover in Iran, that it was just used as an excuse to oust a government that wasn't friendly enough towards U.S.-U.K.-owned and controlled oil interests, that the coup was really an act of American Imperialism that put the interests of corrupt oilmen above the interests of the Iranian people, who suffered from this and the political oppression by the SAVAK, which was taught by the C.I.A. how to torture and kill the enemies of the Shah. Our involvement (or meddling, depending on your point of view) in Iran not only led to the Shah's downfall, but also to the hatred that the Iranian people felt for the United States. It's why they often burned American flags, why their leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, called the U.S. "the Great Satan," but most of all, it was the main reason why hundreds of American citizens were held hostage by Iranian militants in the American embassy in Tehran, the Iranian capitol city, for 444 days (11/04/1979 to 01/20/1981).

[@sky-pv7ff]

66 American hostage held in Iran, not hundreds.

[@Jlevin1955]

Very interesting!😊

[@lppuckster1298]

Wrong Roosevelt House shot. That’s the Delano home where FDR lived.

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

FDR's home was a Roosevelt home, where his mother, moved to with his father.

[@bernadettealmeida2847]

Thank you👌🇺🇸💐

[@mercywilliams2698]

Alice Roosevelt married a cousin of my grandmother..Nicholas Longworth..their only daughter died in her 30’s..

[@herondelatorre4023]

@mercywilliams2698 : Did you know that Nicholas Longworth served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1931 ????

[@mercywilliams2698]

@@herondelatorre4023 I had not remembered that. And further reading back he was married to Alice for a fairly short time..and scandalous as she was widely known to be.. her daughter was from a previous relationship and she married Longworth around the time of Paulina’s birth. I remember my mother mentioning Paulina was not a happy person and died from an accidental overdose.

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

Longworth was married to Roosevelt for 25 years. They were 19 years married when she had the daughter by Sen. Borah of Idaho @@mercywilliams2698 .

[@curtpiazza1688]

Great! 😊

[@lindalaffan949]

The house you show at that you claim as the Roosevelt home in Oyster Bay is actually Franklin Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, NY.

[@tedmcconnell2750]

4:45, that is Hyde Park, not Sagamore, Wrong Roosevelt!!

[@JiminPalmSprings]

Hi there pretty sure you used a picture of Springwood… FDR’s estate in Hyde Park New York… I know this cause I have visited Springwood

[@eddihaskell]

at 4:41 the FDR home at Hyde Park is shown -- not Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's home on Oyster Bay, Long Island. The two branches of the Roosevelt family did not particularly like each other to say the least. I think you need to change your photo.

[@user-zn3sh9lq3e]

He set ideas for people aspiring to become Americans that my own family followed as have I all my life and did not know where these ideas originated.

[@jenniferjacobs663]

Teddy was the youngest person to ever serve as President.

[@judycater2832]

Excelllent point. At 42, he was the youngest President when he succeeded the assassinated William McKinley. John F Kennedy was the youngest elected president.

[@ryandevins184]

Grunge please do a video on mary kay Bergman 😢 R.I.P

[@starcrib]

Alice Roosevelt- pure poison ☄️

[@Jasonmakesvideo]

His second wife's middle name was Kermit?! what a gal!!!

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Roosevelt was an excellent father and man His books are full of wisdom I’m not talking that bum FDR either

[@phabulous1614]

The only Kermit I knew of was Kermit the frog. 😉

[@deniseeulert2503]

Does Teddy have a lot of living descendants? It seems there were a lot of grandchildren.

[@cocoaorange1]

I would assume so.

[@edwardcricchio6106]

Yes he does. Google The Theodore Roosevelt Association. Plenty of descendants sit on the board of the organization.

[@frostpond]

There are LOTS of Roosevelts still living in Oyster Bay and NYC… and the men look like him… 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@shellnexus1]

Ethel was very pretty!

[@ashleybrown5382]

So was Alice!

[@davidponseigo8811]

I was taught in school that General Roosevelt Jr. Was killed in combat.

[@susankiernan7531]

Wrong home

[@patrickirwin3230]

They joined a circus never to be heard from again 😲

[@denizenjournalist6018]

You need to understand the difference between a military "enlistment" and a military "commision". C'mon, we live in the information age, don't be lazy.

[@harper7509]

They are going to give back what they stole too

[@andi795]

You’re speaking so fast that it’s difficult to listen to.

[@SAHAMH123]

My mother was born a Roosevelt. I don't remember exactly how but i think her great grandfather was 2nd cousins to Theodore Roosevelt.

[@jq2639]

Compare these great Americans to Trump, who wouldn’t even honor our fallen soldiers in France and calling them losers.

[@glorygracek.1841]

Sadly, that statue of Teddy, that everyone knows from night in the museum and was on a lot of us teddy fans bucket lists, is now gone. Thanks to those stupid brats in 2020. WITH approval from a traitorous grandson! One of the big objections was that he was on a horse and the Indiana was walking (eyeroll) that was his trademark look. I believe the indians even were the biggest part in making that to begin with.

[@brjersey]

I don’t know. Are we supposed to answer? Because I don’t know what happened to them. Want me to look into it for y’all? Let me know.

[@sarahmervine1374]

The only reason he git on the mountain, he knew the artist

[@jennifer_m.8613]

Oldest daughter Alice had an affair and gave birth to a daughter with her boyfriend

[@lemorab1]

The boyfriend was Senator Ned Borah of Idaho. Alice was in a horrible marriage to Nicholas Longworth while pregnant with her love child, Pauline. The baby was born in 1924. Rumor was, Alice wanted to name the daughter Deborah, but her husband vetoed this. Pauline committed suicide in about 1954.

[@wardarcade7452]

@@lemorab1 Of course, it needs to be said that despite a heavy drinker, a total fail as a spouse and being in a dysfunctional union with Alice, Congressman Nicolas Longworth WAS a doting father to his legal daughter Paulina who adored him and was utterly devastated at his sudden death in 1931 when she was six! Paulina (pronounced 'Pawl-LINE-ah' not 'Paul-LEEN-ah') would marry Alexander Strumm in 1945, and they had their only daughter Joanna in 1946. Alexander Strumm died of hepatitis in 1951 followed by Paulina's tragic death from an overdose of sleeping pills in 1957. Alice felt a great deal of guilt over her daughter's death and became a devoted guardian to her orphaned granddaughter Joanna who, despite always calling her 'Mrs. L' had the closest bond with her of anyone as an adult. BTW, Alice would live to 1980 and fess up to Joanna her tragic mother's true paternity on her deathbed but Joanna had long since learned it. It also needs to be noted that Joanna herself would become a mother in 1986- and name HER only daughter Alice! P.S. Although Alice had been named for her own mother who died soon after her birth, her given name was never used by the family being called 'Baby Lee' (her middle name) then as soon as her first half-sib was born 'Sister' and later called 'Aunt Sister' by her half-nieces and -nephews long after the first President Roosevelt's death!

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

Roosevelt-Longworth's boyfriend was Bill Borah. She named her daughter Paulina, yes, after Longworth vetoed Deborah. Paulina died of an accidental overdose on January 27, 1957 @@lemorab1 .

[@obitouchiha6247]

Second

[@jacobstopper3804]

First

[@cynthiachristie1059]

nope

[@kathrynmolesa1641]

Alice was a poor motherless child who grew up bitter. Her father was too busy to give her the attention she needed and a mother could have given.

[@timhazeltine3256]

Perhaps because her father blamed Alice for his first wife's death.

[@paulabarch5065]

She was witty and bright and well loved by those she loved. And feared by those she didn't.

[@user-pf6ib3ue5s]

Disgusting nyc took teddy down

[@ronblack2700]

Tell us about the racist side of this former president?

[@benn454]

You mean like how he was the first sitting President to invite a black man to dine with him at an official White House dinner?

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

That doesn't mean he wasn't racist. He came from a slave holding family from Georgia, his mother's family@@benn454 .

[@judithoconnor6442]

There was nothing racist about him. Stop complaining about nothing.

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

@judithoconnor6442 his family were slave holders. "As a race and in the mass, they are altogether inferior to the whites,” he confided to a friend in a 1906 letter. Ten years later, he told Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that “the great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for the suffrage” and that giving them voting rights could “reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti.”

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

@@judithoconnor6442 "Roosevelt also believed that Black men made poor soldiers. He denigrated the efforts of the buffalo soldiers who fought alongside his men at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, falsely claiming that they ran away under fire. “Negro troops were shirkers in their duties and would only go as far as they were led by white officers,” he wrote. In reality, the buffalo soldiers served with distinction, and several men were officially recognized for their bravery. Twenty-six died on the slopes of San Juan Hill."

[@jeanettesarnella9278]

Who cares???

[@shellnexus1]

You cared enough to comment 😊

[@SusieQZee]

To answer your question- Everyone watching this cares. No one forced you to learn American History.

[@daisy8297]

Why are you watching if you don’t care? A little history won’t hurt you, but you are always free not to click and watch.

[@lordshiva9359]

He was a Jew....so was Franklin Roosevelt

[@robbutterfield7384]

Bs

[@terry4137]

Women should have NEVER been in politics not now, nor then!