Tweed Roosevelt

Tweed Roosevelt ( ; born February 28, 1942) commonly referred by his initials T.R. is an American businessman, family historian, lecturer and prominent member of the Roosevelt family. He is the son of Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., grandson of Archibald Roosevelt and great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt is the chairman of Roosevelt China Investments, a private investment firm, based in Boston and Shanghai. He is the president of the board of trustees for the Theodore Roosevelt Association, and the chairman of the Theodore Roosevelt Institute at Long Island University. Early life and education Roosevelt was born February 28, 1942 in Berkeley, California, to Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. and his first wife Katherine Winthrop (née Tweed; 1920-2009). His paternal grandfather was Archibald Roosevelt, Sr., the third son of Theodore Roosevelt. His maternal grandfather was Harrison Tweed, the grandson of William M. Evarts. Roosevelt acquired an interest in natural history at the Millbrook School in Millbrook, New York, and then went on to Harvard where he studied social anthropology and graduated in 1964 with an AB in Anthropology and Social Relations. During his freshman year at Harvard, Roosevelt was involved as a driver in an accident that sent two sophomores to the hospital. In 1976, Roosevelt earned an MBA in Finance/Banking at Columbia University.