Teddy Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt

Throughout the lifetime of the United States there have been forty-four presidents. Some being more memorable than others. When you think of the presidents, which one comes to mind, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, or maybe Barrack Obama. Regardless of who comes to mind, there is one man who stands out above all the rest, that man is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 27, 1852. As a child, Theodore was asthmatic (at the time was sometimes fatal), near-sighted, and home schooled. His father was disappointed with his him, having wanting a tuff rugged son. Teddy’s dad had set him a side and told him: ”Theodore you have the mind but no the body, and without the help of the body the mind can not go as far as it should. I am giving you the tools, but it is up to you to make your body”. Without hesitation Teddy said: “ I will make my body!” Teddy immediately went to work on doing so. He and his father had built a gym in their house we he would box and lift weights so that he may build his body, his parents of course being quite wealthy. Teddy became a strapping young man, taking up competitive boxing and rowing at Harvard University. Roosevelt had overcome his sickliness through willpower and discipline. His homeschool education was taut by his aunt along with other tutors before entering Harvard. Upon graduation Roosevelt attended Columbia Law School, were he had attended for a year before dropping out and beginning his political life. Theodore was married twice, first to Alice Hathaway Lee was the daughter of a banker and provided him with a daughter before dying at the age of 22. His second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, provided Teddy with four sons and a daughter.
Theodore Roosevelt's first got into politics when was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1882. In 1884, bereaved by the deaths of his mother and his wife, Alice Hathaway Lee (who died giving birth to a daughter who did survive), he...

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