- Tweed Roosevelt
Tweed Roosevelt (born 1942), the great-grandson of
President Theodore Roosevelt , is aBoston businessman and Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments. He occasionally lectures and writes on the topic of his great-grandfather.Childhood and Education
Tweed Roosevelt was born in
Berkeley, California . He is the son of former careerCIA officer and Banker,Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. and his first wife, Katherine Winthrop ["K.W."] Tweed. His paternal grandfather wasArchibald Roosevelt , Sr., the third son ofTheodore Roosevelt . His maternal grandfather wasHarrison Tweed ; the grandson ofWilliam M. Evarts .Roosevelt acquired an interest in
natural history at theMillbrook School inMillbrook, New York , and then went on to Harvard where he studiedsocial anthropology and graduated in 1964 with anAB inAnthropology and Social Relations. During the late sixties, Roosevelt became active in the movement against theVietnam war and participated in the 1967 march onthe Pentagon . Two years later, Roosevelt was one of thousands at theWoodstock Festival .In 1976 he earned an
MBA in Finance/Banking atColumbia University .Early career
From 1967 to 1974, Roosevelt worked in a number of capacities. He was a special assistant to the Administrator of the largest New York City government agency. He worked as staff administrator and treasurer of a non-partisan commission studying the selection process of U.S. Presidential nominees. He also worked as a
VISTA volunteer involved in community action and anti-drug programs in the slums ofNew York City , and spent some time in the employ of theUnited States Forest Service at the Carson National Forest inTaos, New Mexico .Post MBA Career
After obtaining his MBA, at the
Graduate School of Business, Columbia University , Roosevelt, from 1976 to 1979, was a lecturer in business at that same school. He also designed and taught the basic quantitative course for MBAs. As well, he directed and taught in executive programs for middle and upper-level business executives from all over the world. And he also served as Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, an academic research organization which published scholarly papers and organized semi-annual seminars for practitioners and academics involved in the quantitative aspects of finance. From 1979 to 1983, Roosevelt was consultant with the MAC Group, a general management consulting firm with 150 professionals in offices in the U.S. and abroad. Tweed was responsible for the practice area of management development; designing and marketing tailored programs for senior managers in the U.S. and overseas.From 1983 to 1987 Roosevelt was Vice President, Gray-Judson & Howard, Inc, a management consulting firm which provides strategic planning advice to domestic and international clients in both the industrial and service sectors. Projects that Roosevelt directed or participated in included: developing and implementing strategic planning processes for a number of regional brokerage firms; developing a strategic financial profit model for a major law firm; analyzing the market planning system for an international health and fitness service organization; and consulting with other clients including Computervision (a manufacturer of CAS/CAM systems), J. T. Luptin (the largest
Coca Cola franchise bottler in the U.S.), Allied Signal Corporation,Kodak ,Mutual Life of Canada , and Cardio Fitness Corporation.As an investment advisor at the Wingate Financial Group from 1987 - 1992, Roosevelt provided financial planning advice to individuals, managing their investments, advising them on real estates, and arranging all aspects of their financial affairs. He also provided investment banking services to small companies, arranging both short-term and long-term financing.
From 1992 to 1996, Roosevelt served as president of the Roosevelt Investment Group, Inc, a registered investment advisor with offices in
New York City andBoston, Massachusetts , with individual and institutional clients both in the United States and abroad. It manages client's portfolios, investing mostly in U.S. equity and bond market. The firm - founded byP. James Roosevelt in 1969 - is today no longer under the control of the Roosevelt family.From 1996 to 1998, Roosevelt was a vice president at the Center for Blood Research, a basic research institution affiliated with the
Harvard Medical School , funded by Federal grants mostly byNIH and focusing on immunological research. Roosevelt was responsible for the overall administration of the Center and for its development efforts.Roosevelt has also served as spokesperson for Steiff GmbH, an international company headquartered in
Giengen, Germany that manufactures extremely high quality collectible plush animals, including Teddy Bears. At the beginning of the 1900s, Steiff was the initiator of the original Teddy Bear, which was named after President Theodore Roosevelt. Today it is the leading manufacturer of Teddy Bears worldwide.Currently, Roosevelt is the Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments Corporation, which has recently endeavored, despite numerous setbacks, to establish a presence of Saks Fifth Avenue retail stores in mainland China. Those efforts are ongoing. [ [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070309005148&newsLang=en] BusinessWire online article on Roosevelt China Investments Saks Fifth Avenue in China]
1992 Trip Down the Rio Roosevelt - River of Doubt
In 1992, Roosevelt spent his 50th birthday rafting down the 1,000-mile
Rio Roosevelt inBrazil - a river previously explored by his great grandfather in 1914 in theRoosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition . At that time, Theodore Roosevelt and ColonelCândido Rondon of theBrazilian Army navigated the river, then called the Rio da Duvida -- the River of Doubt -- in the heart of the Brazilianrain forest . In a video made about the modern trip, Roosevelt summed the river up saying that "nothing had changed and everything had changed" in the Amazon wilderness during the 78 years between the trips. A camera crew travelled with the latter expedition, resulting in a television documentary.Contributor to Books and Projects on Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt is a frequent contributor to books and other projects on Theodore Roosevelt. He presented two seminars during
Safari Club International (SCI)’s 2005 Convention: "Return for the River of Doubt" and "Theodore Roosevelt Remembered". In 2006, he was also a guest lecturer at the first annual Theodore Roosevelt symposium, "Theodore Roosevelt, Adventurer", given atDickinson State University , speaking on TR's hunting and camping trips in the Western United States.A longtime member the
Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), Tweed Roosevelt serves on that organization's Executive Committee. In 2007 Roosevelt was asked to head up the organization's site location committee to consider locations for the TRA's new Theodore Roosevelt Museum and Research Center, but in 2008 he resigned from the TRA citing the organization's inability to get that project off the ground.Roosevelt is a charter member of the
New England Chapter of theTheodore Roosevelt Association . He also spoke in 2006 at the Wyoming Monument inForty-Fort, Pennsylvania for the anniversary of his great grandfather's speech there.Notes and references
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1= 1Tweed Roosevelt
2= 2Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr.
3= 3Katharine Winthrop Tweed
4= 4Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt
5= 5 Grace Stackpole Lockwood
6= 6Harrison Tweed
7= 7 Eleanor Greene Roelker
8= 8Theodore Roosevelt
9= 9Edith Kermit Carow
10= 10 Thomas Lockwood
11= 11 Emmeline Stackpole
12= 12Charles Harrison Tweed
13= 13 Minerva Evarts
14= 14William Greene Roelker
15= 15 Eleanor Jenckes
16= 16Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.
17= 17Martha Bulloch
18= 18Charles Carow
19= 19 Gertrude Elizabeth Tyler
26= 26William Maxwell Evarts
27= 27 Helen Minerva Wardner
30= 30Thomas Allen Jenckes
31= 31 Mary Jane Fuller*
William M. Evarts (great-great grandfather)
*Theodore Roosevelt (great-grandfather)
*Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt (grandfather)
*Harrison Tweed (grandfather)
*Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. (father)External links
* [http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) Official Site]
* [http://www.tranewengland.org/new_england.htm New England Chapter of the Theodore Roosevelt Association]
* [http://www.rooseveltchina.com/ Roosevelt China Investments Corp.]
* [http://www.rooseveltinvestments.com/ Roosevelt Investment Group]
* [http://www.dickinsonstate.com/TR_Symposium.asp "Theodore Roosevelt and America's Place in the World Arena" Symposium at Dickinson State University, 2007]
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