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striking phases of his varied, interest
ing and STRENUOUS life to recall to
the public mind full details of his many
exploits and experiences.
Called to the White House in 1901
after President Mckinley had been
assassinated. Colonel Roosevelt, AZ
years OF g became the youngest
president the United states has ever
had. Three years later he was elected
as president by the largest popular
vote a president has received.
Thus Roosevelt. sometimes called a
man of destiny, served for seven years
as the nations chief magistrate. In a
subsequent decade the fortunes of poll
tics did not favor him, for, again a
candidate for president-this time lead
ing the progressive party which he
himself had organized when he differed
radically with some of the policies of
the republican party in 1912-he went
down to defeat, together with the re-
publican candidate, William Howard
Taft. Woodrow Wilson, democrat, was
elected.
High Type Of American.
Colonel Roosevelt's enemies agreed
with his friends that his life, his char
acter and his writings represented a
high type of Americanism
OF Dutch ancestry, born in New York
city on October %, 1858, in a house in
East Twentieth street, the baby Theo-
dore was a weakling. He was n of
four children who came to Theodore
n Martha Bulloc Roosevelt. The
mother was of southern stock and the
father northern, u situation which dur
ing the early year Of Theodore, jun
io,'s %boyhood, was not allowed to in
~terfere with the family life of these
children during the civil war days.
So frail that he was not privileged to
associate with the other boys In ms
neighborhood. Roosevelt was tutored
privately in New York, and during
travels on which his parents took the
children abroad. A porch gymnasium
at his home provided him With phys
ical exercise with which he combatted
a troublesome asthma. His father. a
glass importer and a man OF means.
was his constant companion; he kept a
diary; he read so much history and
tictional books of adventure that he
was known as q bookWOrm; he TOOK
boxing lessons; he was an amateur
naturalist; and at the age of ~ he en-
tered Harvard university. There he
was not as prominent as some others
in an athletic way, az 1t is not record
ed that he made" the baseball and
football teams, but his puny body had
undergone a metamorphosis and before
graduation he became one Of the cham
pion boxers of the college. This re-
markable physical development was
emphasized by something which took
place shortly after he left Harvard in
1880. He went to Europe, climbed the
Matterhorn, and as a result was elect
ed a member of the Alpine Club OF
London-an organization OF men who
had performed notable feats of adven-
ture.
A few months after his graduation.
Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee, of
Boston. She died in 1884, leaving n
child, Alice. now the wife of Repre-
sentative Nicholas Longworth. of Ohio.
In 1885 Roosevelt married Miss Edith
Kermit Carow, Of New York, and to
them five children were born-Edith.
now the wife of DIR. Richard Derby, and
four sons, Theodore, jr., Kermit, Archi-
bald and Quentin.
EARLY Activities.
The public career Of the man who
was to become president began not long
after he left college. His profession
was law, but the activities that were to
come left him no time in which to prac-
tice it. In 1882. 1888 n 1884 he was
elected to the New York state assem-
bly,, where his efforts in behalf of good
government and civil service reform
attracted attention. When the repub-
lican national convention of 1884 was
held. in Chicago, he was chairman Of
the New York state delegation.
After this experience he dropped out
Of politics for two years. Going west.
he purchased ranches along the Little
Missouri river in North Dakota. and
divided his time between outdoor
sports, particularly hunting. and lit
erary work. Here he laid h founda-
ton for his series of books. 1.-The VIM
ming of the West" which was published
from 1889 to 1896. and Of other volumes
of kindred character.
Returning to New York he became
the republican candidate for mayor. in
1886. He was defeated. President Har-
rison in 1889 appointed him a member
Of the United States civil service COM
mission and President Cleveland con-
tinued him in this Office, which he re-
signed in 1895 to become New York
city's police commissioners
"a thing that attracted me to this
Office" Roosevelt said at the time he
accepted this appointment, was that
1t was to be lone in the hurly burly,
for l don't like cloister life." Honesty
was the watchword Of this administra-
ton. and the two years of his occu-
pancy became memorable through the
reforms he inaugurated. attracting the
nations attention While holding a po-
sition which was obscure in COMPARE
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