President Theodore Roosevelt The President Of The United...

President Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States of America. Roosevelt was an adaptive compliant President. He expressed great work ethic and leadership during his time in the White House. In fact while he was in office Roosevelt viewed the President as the â€Å"steward of the people† and kept that mindset all throughout his presidency. President Roosevelt in history is one of the youngest Presidents to assume the position of office. The start of Roosevelt’s Presidency started with the assassination of President William McKinley. President McKinley was shot by a man named Leon Czolgosz. Maybe if McKinley wouldn’t have died from these wounds Roosevelt may never have become one of the best presidents in U.S. history.†¦show more content†¦Many of these things that happened in Roosevelt’s childhood helped shape him for whom he would become as a man and a president. The years leading up to Roosevelt’s Presidency were filled with triumph, physical, and mental challenge. One thing that sticks out of his past is that both of the most important women in his life died within a few hours of each other. Roosevelt’s wife and mother both died on the same day in the year 1884. The one thing that came out of these tragedies was Theodore’s daughter Alice Lee, whom was left to be taken care of by his sister and husband. Shortly after losing his wife and mother Roosevelt fled for the Dakota’s, where he once again fell in love with the western frontier. Once living on the frontier Roosevelt bought a ranch and cattle and started to hunt. But not all good things can last forever. During one winter more than half of his cattle had been killed because of the bad weather and because of this and many other reasons Roosevelt left the Dakota’s and headed back east to live with his childhood sweetheart Edith Kermit Carow. Also while r aising Alice his first born daughter, Teddy and Edith had five of their own children. After returning to New York, Roosevelt continued his writing career, which began with the publication of his book, The Naval War of 1812, in 1882. Later on, Roosevelt also resumed his political career by running unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City in 1886. After this Roosevelt campaigned for