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Born
Roosevelt was born into a wealthy New York City family and suffered from asthma. This forced him to be homeschooled and he focused on his studies, becoming interested with biology and zoology. -
College
Roosevelt was accepted into Harvard in October of 1876. While there he excelled at both books and sports. -
Marriage
Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee on October 27, 1880. -
Assemblyman
Roosevelt became an assemblyman and wrote more bills than any other New York legislature did. -
Birth of the First Child
Roosevelt's daughter Alice was born February 12, 1884. -
Death
Roosevelt's wife Alice Hathaway Lee died two days after their child's birth. Her pregnancy had hid her illness and kidney failure. His mother died on the same day of Typhoid Fever in the same house. After these deaths Roosevelt sent the newborn to live with his sister and drew an X on his diary page, writing "The light has gone out of my life." -
Western Life
Roosevelt built a second ranch near the Little Missouri and published three books about Western life. He became a deputy sherriff and captured three outlaws. -
Second Marriage
Roosevelt married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow and had five children together. -
Navy & Army
Roosevelt joined the Navy and later the Army and was even nominated for the Medal of Honor -
Governor
After leaving the army Roosevelt was elevted Governor of New York and became vice president. -
Presidency
Rooseveltbecame president after Mckinley was shot. -
2nd Term
Was elected for his second term of presidency in 1904 -
Death
Roosevelt died in his sleep at Oyster Bay of a heart attack.
