Roosevelt commanded the regiment through a brutal campaign in the hills above Santiago, Cuba, and made himself one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war leading the charge at the battle of San Juan.Īfter the Spanish-American War ended, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York. With the declaration of war against Spain on April 25, 1898, and the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt resigned his office and formed a volunteer cavalry unit that became known as the Rough Riders. Civil Service Commission (1889–1895), the New York City Board of Police Commissioners (1895–1896), and then became assistant secretary of the Navy (1897–1898). In December the same year, he married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow, in London. Roosevelt returned to New York and lost a bid in the 1886 mayoral election, coming in third. Distraught and depressed, Roosevelt left his two-day-old daughter with his sister and spent the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory mastering his sorrow as he drove cattle and hunted big game.
On February 14, 1884, tragedy struck when both his young wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and his mother died. For the remainder of his life, he poured his boundless energy into sports, politics, scientific and historical scholarship, and building a body and mind capable of the strenuous life he craved. Roosevelt overcame his frailty by adopting a "strenuous life" filled with a regimen of weight lifting, boxing, horseback riding, hunting, and wrestling. By the time he became president he had established a national reputation as a scholar, publishing biographies (Thomas Hart Benton, 1887 and Gouverneur Morris, 1888) and histories (The Naval War of 1812, 1882 and the four-volume The Winning of the West, 1889–1896). TR was a voracious reader and interested in history and politics. As a boy he was frail, nearsighted, and impaired by asthma. Roosevelt epitomized a new breed of politician and from what he famously called the "bully pulpit," he championed a federal government strong enough to restrain the power of great personal and corporate wealth and preached a "Square Deal" that would ensure every American's right to a living wage.īorn on October 27, 1858, to a wealthy New York City family, Roosevelt was tutored at home and entered Harvard at age 17. The White House began to impose a presidential style on the first families and during the next century they would at times be measured according to how well they fit this modern image. Both admirers and critics, in praise or scorn, would call his actions "imperial." Roosevelt's 1902 White House restoration created the idea of the residence as a stage for a world power. While McKinley had been popular and had brought major changes to presidential prestige as well as the nation's world status, Theodore Roosevelt during his seven years and six months in office dramatized the presidency and its image.
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