About Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt High School

Theodore Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family in New York City on October 27, 1858. He suffered from asthma and was home schooled and received intensive physical therapy until he entered Harvard University. After graduation he climbed the Matterhorn. He served in the New York State assembly until the death of his wife Alice. He spent the next few years in North Dakota, where he developed an appreciation for the outdoors.

When he returned to New York, he ran for the office of Mayor of New York City. Defeated in that election, he became the city's police commissioner. He befriended police reporter Jacob Riis and the two remained friends until Mr. Riis's death.

While campaigning in Milwaukee, an assassin's bullet struck Theodore Roosevelt and he was rushed to a hospital in Chicago where he was operated upon by John b. Murphy.

The twenty-sixth President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt led construction of the Panama Canal and won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War.

Theodore Roosevelt died of a blood clot at his home in Oyster Bay, New York on January 9, 1919. He and his wife Alice had one child; with his wife Edith he had five children.

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