Our Guest: Tuesday, November 4
Posted by Wes Brooks
on Nov 05, 2014
President Theodore roosevelt
Hattiesburg Rotarians received a special treat on Tuesday - a visit from the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Actually, our guest was Joe Wiegand - repriser of President Roosevelt. During his time with us Tuesday, Wiegand never broke character. Wiegand's performance was fantastic, his knowledge of the former President impressive, and his attention to detail was outstanding.
Click the "Read more" tab below to find out more about Joe Wiegand and his reprisal work.
Joe Wiegand is regarded as the nation’s premiere reprisor of Theodore Roosevelt. Prior to becoming Teddy Roosevelt, Joe had a twenty-five year career in politics and public policy in his native Illinois. In 2008, after serving as campaign manager for gubernatorial and presidential campaigns in the Land of Lincoln, Joe set out with his wife, Jenny, daughter, Sam, and golden retriever, Faith, on a fifty state tour celebrating TR’s sesquicentennial birthday and the centennial of TR’s final year in office. The adventure was highlighted by a performance at the White House for President and Mrs. George W. Bush on TR’s 150th birthday.
Joe is a political science graduate of Sewanee, the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, and a former graduate assistant at the Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, Illinois. Joe is a Harry S Truman Scholar and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. Joe is a member of the Sewanee-Monteagle Rotary Club and a member of the National Association for Interpretation. A former county commissioner in DeKalb County, Illinois, Joe and his family are living in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Today, Joe performs in all fifty states and internationally. He has been featured in film and television, most recently in “The Men Who Built America” on the History Channel and in “The Forward Pass: A Football Life” by NFL Films. Joe’s TR Tour is sponsored, in part, by the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation of Medora, North Dakota.
To find out more, please visit Joe Wiegand's website: www.teddyrooseveltshow.com.