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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was born with asthma and three siblings, two younger siblings and one older sister. His asthma was so bad that sometimes he would wake up in the middle of night feeling like he was being smothered to death scaring both himself and his parents. After going on a family trip to the Alps, young Roosevelt found out that exercise minimized his asthma. He and his father did exercises together and strengthened his body. For his education, Roosevelt had lots of tutors that taught him French and German and other classical classes. Roosevelt found himself interested in zoology much to the delight of his cousins who enjoyed catching squirrels and such for amusement with him and making little museums.
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Roosevelt became a politician of the Republican Party, much to the disapproval of his parents. Roosevelt became the state assemblyman of Albany. Financier Jay Gould wanted to lower his taxes, but Theodore had many suspicions about Judge Theodore Westbrook, including a conspiracy between the judge and Jay Gould. Theodore Roosevelt got an approval for an investigation to take place, seeking an impeachment of the judge. The committee decided to follow through with the investigation but rejected the impeachment. Theodore grew in popularity because of the wisdom he showed in the finding of the criminals, and this helped him win the re-election of 1882. Roosevelt wrote many bills, one being a civil service reform bill after allying with Governor Cleveland. Roosevelt served as the Chairman of the Committee on affairs of Cities in his final term and wrote more bills than any other lawmaker.
On his twenty-second birthday, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee. Only two days after her pregnancy, she died of an undiagnosed Bright’s’ Disease. Only eleven hours earlier, Theodores’ mother, Mittie, died in the same house of typhoid fever. Stricken with grief, his daughter was taken into the care of Bamie, his sister for three years while Roosevelt grieved. In his biography, he did not mention Alice or his second wife Edith.

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