The 26th President of The United States: Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley. INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH

Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City to Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha “Mittie” Bulloch. Throughout his young life he was known to friends and family members as “Teedie” because he was not very fond of the nickname “Teddy.” As a young boy he spent a lot of his time being homeschooled in their handsome, four-story brownstone house on East 20th St. in New York due to his illness and asthma. By being at home this gave him the opportunity to nurse his passion for animal life. However, by his teens he developed a physical routine that involved weightlifting and boxing with encouragement from his father, whom he deeply respected. He was mostly home schooled by tutors and his parents. Because of being home schooled his learning was different than most children. He was very solid in geography, history, biology, and French but struggled with mathematics, Latin, and Greek. He entered Harvard College in 1876 and when his father died during his second year it was a tremendous blow. But that did not stop him; however, he went into double time and succeeded in most all of his studies. While at Harvard, Roosevelt was active in rowing, boxing, the Alpha Delta Phi literary society, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and was a member of the Porcellian Club. He also edited The Harvard Advocate and was runner-up in the Harvard boxing championship. He graduated in 1880 and enrolled into Columbia Law School.

On Roosevelt’s 22nd birthday he married Alice Hathaway Lee. She died on February 14, 1884, just eleven hours after Roosevelt’s mother p...

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