Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City in 1858. He came from a wealthy family and overcame poor health as a child through vigorous exercise. Roosevelt graduated from Harvard and married his first wife, Alice, in 1880. After her death in 1884, he married Edith Kermit Carow in 1886 and had five children with her. Roosevelt was a Republican who became president after William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He served two terms as president from 1901-1909, during which he established many national forests and parks and passed important consumer protection laws.

1. Date :May 25th 2011

2. Hometown and Early Life
 Theodore Roosevelt, or ‘Teddy’, was born on October
27th 1858 in New York City.
 As a child, Teddy grew up with frail health and
asthma.
 His father encouraged him to exercise vigorously to
get out of his asthma.
 Teddy did sports such as: swimming, tennis, running,
biking and boxing.
 He graduated from Harvard University in 1880 and
then he went to law school.
 He married Alice Hathaway Lee in that same year and
they had one child, Alice.

3. Family
 Theodore married Edith Kermit Carow in 1886
after his first wife died. They had five children:
Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and
Quentin.
 Teddy had wealthy, Dutch and English parents.

4. Political Party
• Theodore was a Republican man.
• He started his first term after
President William McKinley was shot.
• After finishing that he decided to run
for a full term.
• He got elected and had one full term
in office.
• After his first full term, Teddy wanted
to run again, but he failed.

5. Greatest Challenges
 One of Theodore Roosevelt's greatest
challenges was overcoming the deaths of his
first wife and his mother on Valentine’s Day,
1884.
 Another challenge for Teddy was when he
tried to conserve all wildlife and forests while
President.
 He ended up starting 150 national forests and
5 national parks.

6.  Theodore was in office for two terms,
from 1901-1909.
 Roosevelt became first president when
William McKinley died in office.
 After finishing for McKinley, Theodore ran
again and won.
 He also created his own political party
called the Bull-Moose party.

7. Campaign promises
 Theodore kept a 1904 campaign promise that
he would not seek reelection in 1908, he
threw his weight behind William Howard Taft
as his successor.
 He won the largest popular and electoral
majority of any incumbent president in
American history, then promised never to run
for the presidency again. It was a promise he
did not keep.

8.  The building of the Panama Canal
 The coal strike of 1902
 The 16th amendment passes
 Wright Brothers fly the 1st plane
 The San Francisco earthquake

9.  Conserving more than 150 million acres of wildlife
and national forests
 Modernized the army command structure
 Passed the Meat-Inspection Act, and the Pure
Food & Drug Act (1906)
 He opened a canal across the Americas and added
150 million acres of land to the National Forests
through the Forest Reserve Act of 1891.


10. Fun Facts!!!!!!!!!!
 Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president at
that time.
 He did not have a middle name.
 Theodore Roosevelt would sometimes read 2-3
books in one day.
 The Roosevelt's had a Chesapeake Bay retriever;, a
Pekingese; Skip, a mutt; terriers named Jack and
Pete; cats named Tom Quartz and Slippers; Josiah
the badger; Algonquin the pony; Eli the macaw;
Jonathan the piebald rat; Emily Spinach, a garter
snake; twelve horses; five bears; five guinea pigs;
other snakes; two kangaroo rats; lizards; roosters;