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Teddy was born October, 27, 1858 in New York City. As a boy Teddy had bad asthma and was often sick but that didn't stop him from being great. You would often find Teddy outside playing sports or hunting animals or insects. He was a very rebellious child. As a child Teddy started boxing which he would continue in college.
Teddys biggest idol was his father, Teddy regarded him with the upmost respect and once wrote: "I was fortunate enough in having a father whom I have always been able to regard as an ideal man. It sounds a little like cant to say what I am going to say, but he really did combine the strength and courage and will and energy of the strongest man with the tenderness, cleanness and purity of a woman. I was a sickly and timid boy. He not only took great and untiring care of me—some of my earliest remembrances are of nights when he would walk up and down with me for an hour at a time in his arms when I was a wretched mite suffering acutely with asthma— but he also most wisely refused to coddle me, and made me feel that I must force myself to hold my own with other boys and prepare to do the rough work of the world. I cannot say that he ever put it into words, but he certainly gave me the feeling that I was always to be both decent and manly, and that if I were manly nobody would laugh at my being decent. In all my childhood he never laid hand on me but once, but I always knew perfectly well that in case it became necessary he would not have the slightest hesitancy in doing so again, and alike from my love and respect, and in a certain sense, my fear of him, I would have hated and dreaded beyond measure to have him know that I had been guilty of a lie, or of cruelty, or of bullying, or of uncleanness or of cowardice. Gradually I grew to have the feeling on my own account, and not merely on his."
Teddys first wife was Alice Hathaway Lee. Two days after their daughter Alice was born, Teddys wife died from kidney failure and that very same day, Teddys mother also passed away due to a bad fever. This was a very hard time for Teddy, he lost his beloved wife and mother. After that Teddy never mentioned his wife again.
Teddy was home schooled for the most part. But then later attended Harvard University where he excelled in most of his classes. Teddy had photographic memory and was a great multitasker being able to do several things at once, which made him have great potential for learning. While attending school Teddy participated in rowing and boxing. He was an exceptional boxer coming in second place at a Harvard championship.
During and after College, Teddy wrote his first published book "The Naval War of 1812." Trying to give an unbiased factual information on the war of 1812. He then became a legislator of New York and helped publish bills. After some time Teddy decided to retire to his ranch in the Badlands, where he became a deputy Sherrif of Medora, North Dakota. After a hard winter, he decided to move back to New York. His first time running for mayor of New York, which he lost.
In 1895 Teddy becamse commissioner of the New York City Police Department. Which at the time was ranked as the most corrupt Police Department in the US. He was a serious leader for them. He standarised guns, set physicals, installed new police officers and added phones in stations. He was also got rid of the corruption as best he could.
In 1901 he became Vice President to William McKinley. On September 14th Mckinley died from a gunshot and Teddy became president continuing McKinleys politics. In 1904 he was re elected. He helped out with many things, a big one being that he banned misleading food labels.
In 1908 he decided not to re run for president and supported Taft. In 1911 currently running for president was William Taft and Robert LaFollette. But later during 1911 Teddy decided to rerun for president in the republican slot. It was a close race between Taft and Roosevelt.
While on his Campain is Wisconsin, John Schrank a local bar owner made an assasination attempt on Roosevelt. The bullet passed through both his 50 page speech and eyeglass case and was stuck in his chest, where instead of going to the hospital he gave his speech, doctors decided it to be best to leave the bullet in his body causing no significant harm. He lost the election and Woodrow Wilson was the next president.
Later years Teddy safarid in South America where he caught maleria which later lead him to his demise on January 6, 1919. He lived to be 61 years old.
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