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Birth
Born in New York City on October 27 1858 -
Life Befor becoming presadent
As a young boy Theodore Roosevelt spent a lot of time inside his family's handsome brownstone, home schooled due to his illnesses and asthma. After graduating magna cum laude in 1880, he enrolled at Columbia Law School and got married to Alice Hathaway Lee of Massachusetts. -
Politics PRT 1
Roosevelt didn't stay long at law school, opting instead to join the New York State Assembly as a representative from New York City.Roosevelt was defeated for the New York City mayorship. Around the same time, he married his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, whom he had known as a child (they had watched the funeral procession of Abraham Lincoln from a window in his grandfather's house on Union Square in New York City). -
Politics PRT 2
Roosevelt soon resumed his career trajectory, first as a civil service commissioner, then as a New York City police commissioner and Assistant U.S. Navy Secretary under President William McKinley. then he ran for president and won. -
Presidency pt 1
Roosevelt's progressive policies in New York ran him afoul of his own party, so Republican Party bosses plotted to quiet him by naming him on the McKinley ticket in the thankless post of vice president. However, after his re-election in 1901, President McKinley was assassinated. At age 42, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt became the youngest man to assume the U.S. presidency. -
presidency pt 2
In 1905, Teddy Roosevelt walked his niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, down the aisle (Theodore's brother, Elliott, had died in 1894) during the wedding ceremony for Eleanor and her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Date of Death
January 6, 1919
