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Roosevelt was born into a wealthy New York City family and suffered from asthma. This forced him to be homeschooled and he focused on his studies, becoming interested with biology and zoology.
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Roosevelt was accepted into Harvard in October of 1876. While there he excelled at both books and sports.
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Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee on October 27, 1880.
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Roosevelt became an assemblyman and wrote more bills than any other New York legislature did.
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Roosevelt's daughter Alice was born February 12, 1884.
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Roosevelt's wife Alice Hathaway Lee died two days after their child's birth. Her pregnancy had hid her illness and kidney failure. His mother died on the same day of Typhoid Fever in the same house. After these deaths Roosevelt sent the newborn to live with his sister and drew an X on his diary page, writing "The light has gone out of my life."
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Roosevelt built a second ranch near the Little Missouri and published three books about Western life. He became a deputy sherriff and captured three outlaws.
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Roosevelt married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow and had five children together.
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Roosevelt joined the Navy and later the Army and was even nominated for the Medal of Honor
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After leaving the army Roosevelt was elevted Governor of New York and became vice president.
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Rooseveltbecame president after Mckinley was shot.
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Was elected for his second term of presidency in 1904
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Roosevelt died in his sleep at Oyster Bay of a heart attack.
