Describe Teddy Roosevelts path to presidency

Question

Describe Teddy Roosevelt’s path to the presidency. What kind of man was he? Briefly describe his personality and background.

Answer 1

Roosevelt was the Vice President of the United States. Six months prior becoming the President he believed that his political was over as Vice President was a dead end job. But to his luck worked and McKinley was dumped and he was selected as the candidate of Republic for President Nomination and at the age of 42 years he was the President.

Roosevelt had been morbid only once in his life and then briefly. When his young wife died suddenly in 1884, he fled to the wilds of Dakota Territory to recover from his grief. Within two years he had a new wife and was running for the Mayor of New York city. He next served as New York City’s police commissioner, which was better than high profile. He regularly made a splash in the newspaper when he accompanied club-swinging cops on raids of brothels, gambling dens, and illegal saloons.