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Joe Wiegand
Joe Wiegand (born April 15, 1965), is an impersonator who has portrayed Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth U.S. president, in all fifty U.S. states, as well as a political consultant. During the last months of the George W. Bush presidency, Wiegand was invited to come to the White House on October 27, 2008 as part of the official White House celebration of the 150th anniversary of Roosevelt's birth and portray TR in the East Room.〔http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/10/20081027-3.wm.v.html〕 Wiegand, a historian, writer and lecturer on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt is also a member and contributor to Theodore Roosevelt Association, founded in 1919.
==Childhood, family and education==
Joe Wiegand was born in 1965 in the Chicago area, the youngest of three brothers, to Jim and Joan Wiegand.〔http://www.joewiegand.com/jenjoebio.html Wiegand bio site〕 In 1980, the Wiegand family moved to Hollywood, California, where a younger brother and sister were born to the family. Always active in politics and national causes, in 1981, Joe's parents launched “Walkin’ Proud, Talkin’ Loud for America” a twenty-two state, one hundred and sixty-city cross-country tour of America. The family tour started in Los Angeles, California on July 4 and arrived at the White House on September 17, Citizenship Day. The tour had sought to emphasize the duties of citizenship and the importance of patriotism. Joe served as the family's advance man and press secretary for this project.
In 1982, Wiegand was elected the president of American Legion Boys Nation, and Joe went to the Washington, DC to meet Vice President George H. W. Bush, Congressman Phil Crane and the Leadership Institute’s Morton Blackwell. Wiegand attended The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, on a Harry S Truman Scholarship. During Wiegand's junior year, he met Jenny Cook. In 1985, Wiegand was named by ''Time'' Magazine as one of America’s Top 100 College students. Wiegand finished his college work, winning a Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Fellowship. In 1987, Joe and Jenny married at Old St. Paul’s Church in Baltimore. For his Watson Fellowship, Joe travelled to Costa Rica and South Africa to interview members of their respective national legislatures. After completing her teaching assignment, Jenny joined Joe as he completed legislative interviews in Italy, the Philippines and South Korea. After nearly a year overseas, they moved to DeKalb, Illinois, where Joe enrolled in the political science graduate school at Northern Illinois University's Center for Governmental Studies. After his first year of graduate school, Joe was awarded a Michael Curry public administration internship with the Illinois Department of Public Aid and its Project Chance welfare-to-work program.
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