Theodore Roosevelt

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the essence of Americans at the turn of the century as well as those of today. led the way for America�s path to greatness and showed us what it means to live life to its fullest.
was born into a wealthy New York home while the nation was at the brink of civil war. His father was a Northern advocate during the civil war while his mother, whose brother was an admiral in The Confederate Navy, was for obvious reasons a southern sympathizer. This parental diversity gave Roosevelt a firm understanding of the assorted American Cultural beliefs and mindsets. Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1880 at the age of 22. From 1881 until 1884 Roosevelt served as an influential member of the New York state assembly. After the death of his first wife in 1884, Teddy temporarily left politics and ran two cattle ranches in the Dakota Territory and lived the exhausting life of a wild west rancher. Roosevelt left ranching and remarried in 1886. At the same time he began campaigning for ...

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of corporation franchises which is a practice used by the entire federal government today. In 1900 Roosevelt ran for vice president as McKinley�s running mate and won. Sadly six months into his presidency McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became president. It was in this position that Roosevelt did the most to secure his claim as being the most important American in the nineteenth century. At 43, Roosevelt was the youngest president ever to hold office, but although he was young he was not inexperienced. During this time powerful trusts and monopolies were gaining immense strength by eliminating free enterprise and charging outrageous prices for goods. Hearing the people�s ...

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