Theodore Roosevelt

ISBN-13: 9781568027647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 352 str.

Mario R. Di Nunzio; Mario R. Nunzio;CQ Press

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Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858. He was elected to the New York state legislature in 1881. Following his first wife's, Alice Roosevelt, death in February 1884, Roosevelt left politics to manage a cattle ranch in the Dakota Territory. In 1886 he returned to New York City, ran unsuccessfully for mayor, and married Edith Kermit Carow. Between 1889 and 1895 Roosevelt headed the U.S. civil service commission. From 1895 to 1897 he served as president of the Police Commission in New York City. In 1897 President William McKinley appointed him assistant secretary of the navy. He resigned to serve in the military during the war against Spain. As lieutenant colonel he organized and led the Rough Riders, a regiment of cavalry, in Cuba. In 1889 he narrowly won election as the New York State governor. The following year he accepted the Republican Party nomination as vice president on the McKinley reelection ticket. The ticket was victorious. On September 14, 1901 President McKinley died as an eventual result of being shot by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz. At age forty-two Roosevelt became the youngest person to serve as president. Key events during the Roosevelt administration were hi