He was a bellicose man who boxed in the White House.
He was a member of one of the country’s 20 richest families, yet he denounced business magnates as “malefactors of great wealth.” The first president born in a big city, he was a hunter as a well as a conservationist. Roosevelt’s life was filled with contradictions. He preached and lived the “strenuous life,” ridiculing the sedentary life of luxury and attempting the most strenuous and dangerous feats–which finally cost his life. The dominant personality of the era, he helped redefine masculinity. Western and political history, Naval Battles of the War of 1812, and an autobiography. He wrote on subjects as diverse as outdoor life, natural history, U.S. He was a professional historian, naturalist and explorer of the Amazon Basin. Returning to New York as a war hero he was elected Republican governor in 1898. VolunteerĬavalry Regiment, the “Rough Riders”, during the Spanish-American War. He organized and helped command the First U.S. Navy he prepared for and advocated war with Spain in 1898. In 1897 he joined President McKinley’s administration as assistant secretary of the Navy.Īs Assistant Secretary of the U.S. This office he retained until 1895 when he undertook the direction of the Police Department of New York City.
President Harrison, after his election in 1889, appointed Roosevelt as a member of the Civil Service Commission of which he later became president. In 1886 Roosevelt once more entered into politics. Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858–January 6, 1919): 26th President of the United States, First American to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize and a Progressive
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