Teddy+Roosevelt


 * TEDDY ROOSEVELT**

Theodore Roosevelt, also known as Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy was born October 27, 1858 to a old dutch family in New York. Growing up was very rough for Teddy. He had a sick and asthmatic lifestyle. Every night he had to be propped up in bed or hunched over a chair just so he could breath throughout the night, but not only did he have breathing problems he also had severe tone deafness. Although Teddy had all these issues as a child he never let them bring him down. From the young age of 7 he became very hyper active and intrested in zoology. By the age of nine Teddy had a paper titled "The Natural History of Insects." This was the start of Teddy Roosevelt's legacy. As Teddy grew older he graduated from homeschooling to go to Harvard College. This was no easy proccess for the young Teddy. He started in 1876 but by the time of 1878 his father passed away. This was a tremendous blow to Teddy but it only encouraged him to do more and better in school. By the time of 1880 Teddy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard but upon graduation a physical examinatioin was taken on Teddy, this examination determined that with his sever heart problems he should persue a desk job. He went the other way and chose to go onto Columbia Law School. In 1881 Teddy was offered a chance to run for New York Assemblyman, so he dropped out of law school to persue his new goal of public life. Alice Hathaway Lee (born July 29, 1861 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) was Roosevelt's first love. She was accually the person that gave him the nick name Teddy. They had a child named Alice. Unfortunately two days after giving birth (February 14,1884) Alice (Teddy's wife) passed away from an uncured case of kidney failure. Not only did he lose his wife on this day his mother passed with typhoid fever on the same day and in the same house. In the diary Teddy kept this day had a giant X with a quote saying, "The light has gone out of my life." Eventually Teddy would go on to get re-married.   After a huge amount of hunting trips, living in the wild, wars, and a bunch of other experiences Teddy became president. This was no typical election. He was vice president to McKinley at the time. while on a climbing trip he was informed the president had been shot and he must report to Buffalo. at 5:22 a.m. he received another telegram that the president had dies four hours ago. Upon landing in Buffalo he was sworn into presidency at 3:30 p.m. While in office he agreed to stand by McKinley's policies.

Teddy was president from 1901-1909. Over these years Roosevelt accomplished many different battles going on in the world, not only wars but more relaxed topics such as animals and nature. At the time a huge part of his acts in office were about wild life and nature. Being an outdoors guy growing up his whole life, he decided he wanted to protect species and the land they lived on so he came up with a brilliant idea, which later became known as Yellowstone National Park. this park shows the true beauty of the planet earth. The attraction shows endless animals and rivers and vegetation. He realized that a lot of animals were becoming endangered and wanted to stop this from happening. 

Over time and many exotic hunting trips and expedition's Roosevelt grew very ill. He would later go on to pass away on January 6, 1919 from a heart attack in his sleep. Vice president at the time said, " Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#Childhood
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