Theodore Roosevelt Research Paper

Theodore Roosevelt was one of our most energetic leaders. He was the first president to care about our environment. He had a very good personality, he was colorful, witty, outspoken, and humane. He was also funny, smart, hardworking, and brave. As a child he was called “Teddie”, and as an adult called “Teddy” or “T.R”. He also got the nicknames “Trust Buster and Great Conservationist. His face is also on Mt. Rushmore. He had two wives, Edith Carow and Alice Lee. His religion was Dutch Reformed.

Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27,1858. He was the second born out of four children. His father’s name was Theodore Roosevelt Sr. His mother’s name was Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. He grew up in a wealthy family in New York City. As a young child,

he got asthma. His father taught him to exercise and explore the outdoors. He became very interested in wildlife. He started collecting animals. Theodore Roosevelt collected so many insects and animals. In his room, he made “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History”. The outdoors saved his life. He became a very athletic person. His parents put him in gymnastics and weight-lifting classes to help with his asthma. While he was young he visited Europe an Egypt.
When he went off to college, he was still very interested in wildlife. He went to Harvard for college. He was so interested in wildlife; his college roommate was a giant turtle. He was still a very athletic person and got involved in boxing. At a boxing match, an accident left him blind in his left eye. He studied many things in college including: German, natural history, zoology, forensics, and composition. During college, he studied, did rowing, boxing, wrestling, and danced. He graduated college in 1880.
After graduating, Theodore Roosevelt got married to Alice Lee Roosevelt on his birthday, Oct. 6. Then, he went to study law at Columbia University. But after one year at Columbia UT, he dropped out to continue studying politics. He got elected to New York state legislature. Then, Alice Lee gave birth to their first child, Alice Lee Roosevelt. The next day, his mother died and a few hours later Alice died, and they were both in the same house.
After that double tragedy, Theodore Roosevelt decided that he needed to be alone for a while. So, he went to South Dakota. He left his daughter in the hands of his sister. While in South Dakota, he bought two ranches and a thousand head of cattle. He rode horses and raised
cattle. After two years of living in South Dakota, he gained 30 pounds of muscle and his asthma was gone forever! He was ready to move back to New York.
After returning to New York, Theodore Roosevelt remarried to his childhood sweetheart, Edith Carow Roosevelt. Later they had six more children. All seven of the names were Alice Lee Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, Ethel Carow Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, Bulloch Roosevelt, and Quentin Roosevelt. In 1886, Roosevelt became head of New York City’s police. A couple months later he became assistant secretary of the navy.
He had other occupations when he came back to New York.

Those included an author, he wrote books He became a lawyer, and a public official. Eventually, he wanted to become governor of New York, so he started researching and doing a lot of work to become governor of New York. Theodore Roosevelt became governor of New York. He did many things as governor. One thing that he did was protected many forests because he saw that people were cutting down too many trees and wanted to put a stop to that. Once, when he was hunting, he had refused to shoot a baby bear. When people heard about this, they made a toy called the Teddy Bear in honor of Theodore

Roosevelt.
After Theodore Roosevelt stopped being governor, he wanted to continue in politics. So, he wanted to become William McKinley’s vice president if he got elected into office. He toured the country as vice presidential candidate. He gave 673 speeches in 567 different towns. Whenever he gave speeches he was a very energetic and inspiring speaker trying to get everyone he could to vote for William McKinley. Once, while in Milwaukee, he got shot in the chest by a fanatic while giving a speech. When McKinley got elected, he chose Theodore Roosevelt to be his vice president. After one year of McKinley being president, a tragic thing happened. President McKinley got assassinated making Theodore Roosevelt president.
He was the youngest president at not quite age 43. Even though he was president, he was eager to become president in his own right. So, in 1904, he ran for president hoping to be elected. He was going against Alton B. Parker. The results for that election were: Theodore Roosevelt got 7,628,461 popular votes and got 336 electoral votes. Alton B. Parker got 5,084,223 popular votes and 140 electoral votes. He did get elected. Even when President Roosevelt was president, he had many pets. He even had a pet bear named Jonathan Edwards. His kids had a lot of fun with their pets in the white house too! Once, when Quentin was sick the other kids took their pony up
the white house elevators to help him feel better. His vice president was Charles W. Fairbanks. He was also a republican. President Roosevelt was considered the first modern president. He was also the first president to care about the United States environment. As president, he got 50,000 dollars a year. He was president for 11 years, so he got 550,000 dollars in his career as president. He wanted all Americans to have a “square deal”. He was also the first president to invite an African American over for dinner while in office. In all, he got elected twice.
His kids were troublemakers in the white house.

They dropped water balloons on the heads of white house guards. Whenever visiting officials came, Mr. Roosevelt’s kids scared them with a four-foot-long king snake. His youngest sons called themselves the white house gang. He was also known as America’s most active president. He had pillow fights with his children and played football on the white house lawn with his kids. While he was president, he made a law that said he could make any land a national landmark. In 1903, he visited the Grand Canyon for the very first time and loved it. Also, while he was in office, the Wright Brothers made first flight in a powered plane. In 1912, he ran for president again, but lost to William Howard Taft. Mr. Roosevelt officially stopped being president on March

4,1909.
After being president, Theodore Roosevelt’s life became a lot calmer. His kids were almost all grown up, and he was getting older as well. He got a Nobel Peace Prize in December for while president, mediating the Russia-Japanese War. He also took a voyage to Brazil with his son Kermit. The voyage was not very good for Roosevelt. During the seventh month of the voyage, he got malaria. And he got a serious infection in his leg during a boat accident. A few years after the voyage, Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest son, Quentin died serving in the war and died. A week later he died in his sleep on January 6,1919. He was buried at Young’s Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, NY.
In Mr. Roosevelt’s lifetime he wrote 100,000 letters and wrote more than twenty books. He also added 195,329 square miles to the national forest. He created 18 national monuments. Roosevelt created five national parks. Established the national park service. He also created 150 national forests, created fifty-one bird sanctuaries, and protected over230 million acres of land. In 1903, he established the first national wildlife refuge in Florida. Before he died, Theodore
Roosevelt said, “No man has had a happier life than I have lead; a happier life in every way”. Theodore Roosevelt helped the environment and encourages you to do the same.