Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt was the second of four children. He was born in New
York City on October 27, 1858 of Dutch, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French and
German heritage. Partially due to poor health, he suffered from Asthma and
bad vision, he was educated by tutors until he entered Harvard College,
where he received his B.A. degree in 1880. At Harvard he also achieved
membership in Phi Beta Kappa. To gain strength, he taught himself to ride,
box and shoot, and he developed an early interest in natural history and
military affairs.
On October 27, 1880 he married Alice Hathaway Lee. His happy marriage
ended when Alice died on February 14, 1884 following the birth of their
daughter, Alice. ...
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He returned east in the fall of 1886 to
run for mayor of New York against Congressman Abram S. Hewitt and the
economist Henry George. Hewitt, a Democrat, won easily with Roosevelt
finishing a poor third.
Roosevelt then married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow, in
London. Edith was an intelligent and cultivated, yet private woman. She
bore him four sons; Theodore, Jr.; Kermit; Archibald; and Quentin, and a
daughter, Ethel.
For two and one-half years after his second marriage Roosevelt lived as a
sportsman and scholar in Sagamore Hill, his house at Oyster Bay, on Long
Island. He published biographies of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Hart
Benton and works on the American West, some based on his personal
experiences.
In 1889 he was appointed to the U.S. Civil Service Commission. As head of
the commission for much of his six years of service, Roosevelt was guided
by the belief that the system was full of corruption that kept good men out
of politics. During his ...
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led the Rough Riders in a heroic charge up Kettle Hill in the battle for
San Juan. This action established his reputation throughout the United
States.
Roosevelt returned to New York in the summer of 1898 to run for governor.
Though he won by fewer than 20,000 votes, Roosevelt became the best
governor of New York up to that time. The business community didn't like
Roosevelt's tax, regulatory, and other programs and tried to get him out of
the state. He was encouraged to seek the office of Vice President with
President McKinley in 1900. The office had been vacant since the death of
Vice President Garret Hobart in 1899. Roosevelt was not enthusiastic about
this because he liked being ...
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