Joseph Michael Wiegand
- Actor
- Podcaster
- Writer
Joe Wiegand is regarded as the nation's premiere reprisor of Theodore Roosevelt. 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. More information is available at teddyrooseveltshow.
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 in an RV 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 residents of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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 in an RV 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 residents of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
