Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1919.
Mount Rushmore . 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 ) . Panama Canal . The United States took over the project in 1904 and opened the canal on August 15 , 1914 . Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( [ ˈroʊzəvɛlt ] ; October 27 , 1858 -- January 6 , 1919 ) was an American statesman , author , explorer , soldier , naturalist , and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 . In foreign policy , he focused on Central America , where he began construction of the Panama Canal .