Kermit Roosevelt MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. A son of

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, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit graduated from Harvard College, served in both World Wars (with both the

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and U.S. Armies), and explored two continents with his father. He fought a lifelong battle with depression and died by suicide while serving in the US Army in

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during

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.William E. Lemanski, ''Lost in the Shadow of Fame: The Neglected Story of Kermit Roosevelt: A Gallant and Tragic American'' 2011.

Childhood and education

Kermit was born at Sagamore Hill, the family estate in Oyster Bay, New York, the second son of Theodore Roosevelt, (1858–1919) and Edith Kermit Carow (1861–1948). He had an older half-sister Alice Lee Roosevelt (1884–1980), from his father's first marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee (1861–1884), an elder brother,

Theodore Roosevelt III Theodore Roosevelt IV ( ) (June 14, 1914 – May 2, 2001), also known as Theodore III, was an American banker, government official, and veteran of World War II. He was a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt through his father, Brig. Gen. The ...

(1887–1944), a younger sister, Ethel Carow Roosevelt (1891–1977), and two younger brothers; Archibald Bulloch "Archie" Roosevelt (1894–1979) and

Quentin Roosevelt Quentin Roosevelt I (November 19, 1897 – July 14, 1918) was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Roosevelt. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pu ...

(1897–1918). Kermit Roosevelt and his dog Jack

As a child, he had little resistance to illness and infection. He had a flair for language, however, and read avidly. He showed a talent for writing that led to recording his experiences in

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in a book. After attending the Groton School, he enrolled at Harvard. In 1909, as a freshman, he and his father (recently out of office as president)—both of whom loved nature and outdoor sports—went on a year-long expedition in Africa funded by the

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. After this trip and a swing through Europe, Roosevelt returned to Harvard and completed four years of study in two and a half years, graduating with the Class of 1912. He was a member of the

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, as was his father. Roosevelt became active in the

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, a wildlife conservation organization that had been co-founded by his father. One commentator wrote that Kermit embodied the ideals of the club perhaps more purely than anyone, including his father.

River of Doubt South American expedition

One of Theodore Roosevelt's most popular books, ''Through the Brazilian Wilderness'', recounted the expedition into the Amazon Basin Brazilian jungle in 1913–14. The father and son went on what would become known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition, exploring the Brazilian jungle with explorer Colonel

Cândido Rondon Marshal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (5 May 1865 – 19 January 1958) was a Brazilian military officer most famous for his telegraph commission and exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, as well as his lifelong support ...

. During this expedition, they explored the

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, later renamed Rio Roosevelt in honor of the President, as well as a branch of that river named the Rio Kermit in his honor. The source of the river had been discovered by Rondon earlier, but it had never been fully explored or mapped. At the time of the expedition, Roosevelt was newly engaged to Belle Wyatt Willard, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Spain. His mother Edith was concerned about her husband's health and the difficulties of a new expedition, and asked Kermit to accompany his father. He did so, reluctantly delaying his marriage. The scope of the expedition expanded beyond the original plans, leaving the participants inadequately prepared for a trip tracing the River of Doubt from its source through hundreds of kilometers of uncharted rainforest. The climate and terrain, inadequate gear and food, and two deaths (one drowning, the other murder) turned a scientific expedition into an ordeal. Roosevelt's father contracted

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and a serious infection resulting from a minor leg wound, weakening him to the point that he considered taking a fatal dose of morphine rather than being a burden to his companions. Roosevelt told his father that he was bringing him back literally "dead or alive" and if he died, he would be an even bigger burden to the expedition. Although Roosevelt contracted malaria as well, he downplayed his sickness to save

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for TR, nearly dying himself before the physician insisted on giving him the medication by injection. Roosevelt's determination and his rope- and canoe-handling skills were instrumental in saving his father's life. Nonetheless, TR was plagued by flareups of malaria and inflammation so severe that they required hospitalization. Besides the newly named Rio Roosevelt, one branch of the river was named the Rio Kermit in his honor. Today, the Rio Roosevelt is commonly called the Rio Teodoro by

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Brazilians because of pronunciation difficulties they have with the name 'Roosevelt'. Although Kermit and TR faced skepticism about their claims of navigating a completely uncharted river over 1000 km long, they eventually silenced their critics through TR's oratory and one of his most popular books, ''Through the Brazilian Wilderness.'' The 1913–14 expedition was later recounted in '' The River of Doubt'' by Candice Millard (Doubleday 2005).

Marriage and children

1914-06-13, La Esfera, Boda aristocrática, Campúa

After the Amazon trip, in 1914 Kermit married Belle Wyatt Willard (1892–1968), daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Spain,

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. They had four children: Kermit Roosevelt Jr. (1916–2000),

Joseph Willard Roosevelt Joseph Willard Roosevelt (January 16, 1918 – May 18, 2008) was an American pianist and composer. Biography He was the second son of Kermit Roosevelt and Belle Wyatt Willard. His paternal grandparents were U.S. President Theodore "T.R." Roosev ...

(1918–2008), Belle Wyatt "Clochette" Roosevelt (1919–1985), and Dirck Roosevelt (1925–1953). His daughter, Clochette Roosevelt, married John Gorham Palfrey, who was dean of Columbia College and a member of the

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Military service in World War I

From 1914 to 1916, Roosevelt was assistant manager for National City Bank in

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. In 1917, as he was about to be transferred to a Russian branch, the U.S. entered the World War. He attended the Plattsburg School for officers from May to July 1917 but resigned from the U.S. Army to join the British Army. On August 22, 1917, Roosevelt was appointed an honorary captain in the British Army. He saw hard fighting in the Near East, later transferring to the United States Army. While his other brothers had had summer training at Plattsburgh, New York, Roosevelt had missed out on this training. Roosevelt joined the

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to fight in the

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(modern-day Iraq) theater of

. He was attached to the 14th Light Armoured Motor Battery of the

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, but the British High Command decided they could not risk his life and so they made him an officer in charge of transport ( Ford Model T cars). Within months of being posted to Mesopotamia, he mastered spoken as well as written Arabic and was often relied upon as a translator with the locals. He was awarded a

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on August 26, 1918. Roosevelt relinquished his British commission on April 28, 1918, and was transferred to the AEF in France. In 1918, he learned that his youngest brother

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, a pilot, had been shot down over France and had been buried by the

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with full military honors. He was commissioned a captain in the United States Army on May 12, 1918, and commanded Battery C, 7th Artillery of the 1st Division. He participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive near the end of the war. He returned to the United States on March 25, 1919, and was discharged from the Army two days later.

Between the wars

After the war, Roosevelt went into business; he founded the Roosevelt Steamship Company and the

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. He continued to enjoy outdoor activities with his brothers. In 1919, he joined the Empire State Society of the

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, to which both his father and elder brother belonged. In 1925, Roosevelt accompanied his brother Ted on a hunting expedition across the Himalayas, over uncharted mountain passes rising from the Vale of Kashmir through the ancient

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into China, in search of the legendary bighorn wild sheep called '' Ovis poli''. He and his brother Ted documented the trip in their book ''East of the Sun and West of the Moon''. Several trophies collected during this expedition are on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. This expedition, financed by Museum trustee James Simpson, is sometimes called the "James Simpson-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition of the Field Museum of Natural History". In 1928–1929, Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Ted were members of the

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. The Roosevelt brothers told the story of their part in the expedition in their book ''Trailing the Giant Panda''. Kermit Roosevelt served as vice president of the

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from 1937 to 1939.

Service in World War II

By October 14, 1939, when Britain was at war with Germany, Roosevelt had negotiated a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the

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with the assistance of his friend,

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, who was by then

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.Edward Renehan, 1998, ''The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War,'' Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, and 0195127196, se

accessed 16 June 2015. His first task was to lead a contingent of British volunteers for the Winter War in Finland. According to a contemporary story published in

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, he had resigned from the British Army to lead the expedition. However, before the expedition could be launched,

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made peace with Russia. Roosevelt served with distinction in a raid into

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and was later sent to North Africa, where there was little action at the time. While in Norway, he was injured during the Battle of Narvik. He resumed drinking and was debilitated by an enlarged

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complicated by a resurgence of

. At the end of 1940, he returned to England and was discharged from the army on health grounds on May 2, 1941, by which time he had once again reached the rank of captain. Roosevelt appealed this discharge all the way to the British Prime Minister,

, who upheld the medical discharge. When he returned to the US, he turned to drinking to forget his problems. His wife enlisted the help of his cousin, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who ordered the FBI to track him down, and he was brought back to his family. In late April 1942, his brother

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sought to have him committed to a sanitarium for a year; at month's end, he agreed to a four-month stay at an institution in

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. To extricate him from his current situation, the President gave him a commission as a major in the

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, and had him transferred and posted to Fort Richardson,

, where he worked as an intelligence officer and helped establish a territorial militia of Eskimos and

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Death

Roosevelt died in Alaska on June 4, 1943, in his room at Fort Richardson, from suicide by a gunshot to the head. He was discovered by Dr. Sanford Couch Monroe, who later filed the autopsy report. His death was reported to his mother, Edith, as a heart attack. He was interred in Fort Richardson National Cemetery near Anchorage, where a memorial stone gateway was erected in his honor in 1949.

Legacy

The town of

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, was named for him (he had visited

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, a few months earlier to hunt antelope). The town of

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, is also named after him. The ''Luzon''-class repair ship was named in his honor. The town of Kermit, North Dakota was also named after him. There is an annual lecture series given in the United States by a

general officer and in the United Kingdom by a

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general officer named in memory of Kermit Roosevelt.

Awards

United States

* World War I Victory Medal * Army of Occupation of Germany Medal * American Defense Service Medal *

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* Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal *

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Army of Occupation Medal The Army of Occupation Medal is a military award of the United States military which was established by the United States War Department on 5 April 1946. The medal was created in the aftermath of the Second World War to recognize those who had ...

Foreign decorations

(United Kingdom) *Montenegro War Cross

Foreign medals

* British War Medal (United Kingdom) * Victory Medal (United Kingdom) * 1939-1945 Star (United Kingdom) *

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(United Kingdom) *

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(United Kingdom)

In fiction

Kermit Roosevelt appears as a minor character in the

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novel '' Assegai'' on safari in East Africa with his father. Kermit Roosevelt appears in the second episode of 1992's ''

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'' television series. He also appears fleetingly (in a dream) in William Boyd's novel '' An Ice-Cream War''. The book ''Roosevelt's Beast'' by Louis Bayard is a fictitious story of the Rondon-Roosevelt expedition, narrated by Kermit Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt appears as a main character in the James Ross historical fiction '' Hunting Teddy Roosevelt'' about the safari in East Africa with his father. Kermit Roosevelt appears in the fiction book ''The President's Daughter'' by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley which is based on Kermit's sister Ethel Roosevelt Derby and their time in the White House.

Works

* '' War in the Garden of Eden'': memoirs from World War I * * ''Trailing the Giant Panda'' (with Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.) * * ''The Boy Scout's Book of True Adventure, Fourteen Honorary Scouts,'' with Foreword By

and Biographical Notes By James E. West. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York (1931) – Essays include: "Adventurous Hunting" by Kermit Roosevelt, "Scouting Against the Apache" by Frederick R. Burnham, "How I Learned to Fly" by Orville Wright, "An Arctic Mirage" by Donald B. MacMillan, "In the Arctic" by

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, "A Tobacco Trade" by

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, "The Black Ghosts of the Tana River" by James L. Clark, "My Flight Over the Atlantic" by

Richard Evelyn Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ...

, "In the Jungles of Cochin-China" by

, "Shipwreck" by Robert A. Bartlett, "Written in the Air" by

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, "Tiger! Tiger!" by Merian C. Cooper, "The First Crossing of the Polar Sea" by

, "Bandits" by Clifford H. Pope, and "Adventure" by Stewart Edward White. All 13 photo plates of the honorary Scouts are present; both Roosevelts in the same photo. * ''East of the Sun and West of the Moon'' (with Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.)

References and notes

External links

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Project Gutenberg ''War in the Garden of Eden''
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Theodore Roosevelt Association
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