Theodore Roosevelt was American.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore , a batholith in the Black Hills in Keystone , South Dakota , United States . Mount Rushmore features 60 ft sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents : George Washington ( 1732 -- 1799 ) , Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 -- 1826 ) , Theodore Roosevelt ( 1858 -- 1919 ) , and Abraham Lincoln ( 1809 -- 1865 ) . Theodore Roosevelt . His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore , alongside those of George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , and Abraham Lincoln . United States presidential election, 1904 . Incumbent President and Republican candidate Theodore Roosevelt , having succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of William McKinley in September 1901 , was elected to a term in his own right .