Teddy

Teddy On September 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, a young anarchist guns down President William McKinley. This tragic event marked the beginning of the youngest Presidency in U.S. history. A forty-two year old New Yorker named Theodore Roosevelt took control of the White House. Roosevelt’s road to Pennsylvania Ave. is arguable the most unusual of all U.S. Presidents. Theodore Roosevelt was a naturalist, a writer, a hunter, a ranchman, and a soldier all before becoming a politician. Ten of thousands of pages have been written about the remarkable exploits of “Teddy’s” life. In Edmund Morris’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s childhood and early life experiences have a profound effect on the man who later becomes President. Morris shows us the kind of childhood it takes to nurture a sickly child into a larger than life figure. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was born during the late afternoon on the twenty-seventh of October, in the year 1858 (Morris 3). Born to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Teddy was the second child and the first son the couple had. Teddy’s birth took place in the Roosevelt’s house, located on East Twentieth Street, in teddy, theodore, teddy’s, sr, roosevelt, began, father, man, life, first, family, roosevelt’s, new, born, asthma, though, summer, martha, house, home, body, young, work, son, roosevelts, old, much, later, even, end, brought, before, after, york, years