Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
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Theodore Roosevelt was the second of four children. He was born in New
York City on October 27, 1858 of Dutch, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French and
German heritage. Partially due to poor health, he suffered from Asthma and
bad vision, he was educated by tutors until he entered Harvard College,
whe ....
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.... spent much of the next two years on his
ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. There he slowly got over the
loss of his wife as he lived in the saddle, driving cattle, hunting big
game, and even capturing an outlaw. He returned east in the fall of 1886 to
run for mayor of New York against Congressman Abram S. Hewitt and the
economist Henry George. Hewitt, a Democrat, won easily with Roosevelt
finishing a poor third.
Roosevelt then married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow, in
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