Biography of Theodore Roosevelt

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This paper takes a look at the life of the 26th President of the United States of America, Theodore Roosevelt. It explores the achievements and failures of this past US president, both as president and in his personal life.

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"Although somewhat enchanted with teaching as a career, Theodore soon became a candidate for the 21st Assembly district and served in three sessions between 1882 and 1884. On October 27, 1880, he married Alice Hathaway Lee who died four years later following the birth of daughter Alice Lee. At twenty-six, Theodore became a delegate to the Chicago Republican National Convention and soon after wrote six more books, one being The Winning of the West in 1889. On December 2, 1886, he married Edith Kermit Carow and soon became a prominent supporter of Republican ideals.
In May of 1889, President Harrison made Roosevelt a civil service commissioner in Washington, where he learned the inner workings of the capital. His new political philosophy was then addressed in American Ideals and Other Essays (1897) and always maintained that his greatest wish as a politician was to "keep out the crooks in Washington and protect the competent and the common man" (Mowry, 78)."

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