hours later, in the same house, his wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also died from a chronic kidney infection. In 1884, ill heath and death of his wife, he abandoned his political work, invested fortune in his cattle ranches to stay away of the political life. He published his second book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, description of his life in the ranch. In 1886, he returned to his normal active life to New York and married Edith Carow Roosevelt and plunged into politics. In 1888, he published three books called; Life of Gouverneur Morris, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, Essays in Practical Politics. In 1889Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president and the 25th vice- president of the United States, was born on 27 October 1858 in New York City in a rich old Dutch family who had entered America in 17th Century. Roosevelt was known as T.R or Teddy. Kathleen Dalton in Theodore Roosevelt says “TR’s father, Theodore Roosevelt Senior (called Thee), gave his first son his name and admitted he loved him best of his four offspring. But with such favored love came the weight of familial expectations. The Senior Roosevelt would look to young TR to prove he had enough stern old Dutch blood coursing in his veins to bring credit to the Roosevelt name”(2002, 15)Roosevelt was a historian, a biographer, a statesman, a hunter, a naturalist and an orator. He had two sisters and one brother. In his boyhood Sunday was as dismal a day for small Calvinistic children of Dutch descent as if they had been of Puritan or Scotch Covenanting or French Huguenot descent. Dalton states that "Theodore Senior did much more than teach his son Christian piety and social obligation. Each day he set an example of religious ethics in action". (2002, 21) During the Revolution some of his forefathers, North and South, served respectably, but without distinction, in the army, and others rendered similar service in the Continental Congress or in various local legislatures. At the age of 18, in 1876, he entered Harvard College. After finishing college, he moved to Germany and studied for a year then he entered the world of politics. He married on his twenty second birthday with a lady called Alice Hathaway. “Theodore’s marriage to Alice brought him as a full adult member into the Knickerbocker world of Patriarch Balls, dinner parties that required many evenings out……… He would have preferred to stay at his desk to prove the American navy had better marksmen than Britain in 1812” (2002, 78).

Soon after he and Alice settled in New York, Theodore’s enthusiasm in politics and his political views led him to join Republican Party. Due to his qualifications he was elected as New York State Assembly from New York City (the youngest person ever elected). He has been serving in the New York Assembly till 1884. He joined the National Guard in 1883 and he was re- elected in New York City. He established two cattle ranches, Maltese Cross and Elkhorn, near Medora, Dakota Territory. In the February of 1884, he faced a double tragedy, Roosevelt's mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt died of typhoid fever; hours later, in the same house, his wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also died from a chronic kidney infection. In 1884, ill heath and death of his wife, he abandoned his political work, invested fortune in his cattle ranches to stay away of the political life. He published his second book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, description of his life in the ranch. In 1886, he returned to his normal active life to New York and married Edith Carow Roosevelt and plunged into politics. In 1888, he published three books called; Life of Gouverneur Morris, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, Essays in Practical Politics. In 1889,

e Roosevelt name”(2002, 15)Roosevelt was a historian, a biographer, a statesman, a hunter, a naturalist and an orator. He had two sisters and one brother. In his boyhood Sunday was as dismal a day for small Calvinistic children of Dutch descent as if they had been of Puritan or Scotch Covenanting or French Huguenot descent. Dalton states that "Theodore Senior did much more than teach his son Christian piety and social obligation. Each day he set an example of religious ethics in action". (2002, 21) During the Revolution some of his forefathers, North and South, served respectably, but without distinction, in the army, and others rendered similar service in the Continental Congress or in various local legislatures. At the age of 18, in 1876, he entered Harvard College. After finishing college, he moved to Germany and studied for a year then he entered the world of politics. He married on his twenty second birthday with a lady called Alice Hathaway. “Theodore’s marriage to Alice brought him as a full adult member into the Knickerbocker world of Patriarch Balls, dinner parties that required many evenings out……… He would have preferred to stay at his desk to prove the American navy had better marksmen than Britain in 1812” (2002, 78).

Soon after he and Alice settled in New York, Theodore’s enthusiasm in politics and his political views led him to join Republican Party. Due to his qualifications he was elected as New York State Assembly from New York City (the youngest person ever elected). He has been serving in the New York Assembly till 1884. He joined the National Guard in 1883 and he was re- elected in New York City. He established two cattle ranches, Maltese Cross and Elkhorn, near Medora, Dakota Territory. In the February of 1884, he faced a double tragedy, Roosevelt's mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt died of typhoid fever; hours later, in the same house, his wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also died from a chronic kidney infection. In 1884, ill heath and death of his wife, he abandoned his political work, invested fortune in his cattle ranches to stay away of the political life. He published his second book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, description of his life in the ranch. In 1886, he returned to his normal active life to New York and married Edith Carow Roosevelt and plunged into politics. In 1888, he published three books called; Life of Gouverneur Morris, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, Essays in Practical Politics. In 1889

rmy, and others rendered similar service in the Continental Congress or in various local legislatures. At the age of 18, in 1876, he entered Harvard College. After finishing college, he moved to Germany and studied for a year then he entered the world of politics. He married on his twenty second birthday with a lady called Alice Hathaway. “Theodore’s marriage to Alice brought him as a full adult member into the Knickerbocker world of Patriarch Balls, dinner parties that required many evenings out……… He would have preferred to stay at his desk to prove the American navy had better marksmen than Britain in 1812” (2002, 78).

Soon after he and Alice settled in New York, Theodore’s enthusiasm in politics and his political views led him to join Republican Party. Due to his qualifications he was elected as New York State Assembly from New York City (the youngest person ever elected). He has been serving in the New York Assembly till 1884. He joined the National Guard in 1883 and he was re- elected in New York City. He established two cattle ranches, Maltese Cross and Elkhorn, near Medora, Dakota Territory. In the February of 1884, he faced a double tragedy, Roosevelt's mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt died of typhoid fever; hours later, in the same house, his wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also died from a chronic kidney infection. In 1884, ill heath and death of his wife, he abandoned his political work, invested fortune in his cattle ranches to stay away of the political life. He published his second book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, description of his life in the ranch. In 1886, he returned to his normal active life to New York and married Edith Carow Roosevelt and plunged into politics. In 1888, he published three books called; Life of Gouverneur Morris, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, Essays in Practical Politics. In 1889

002, 78).

Soon after he and Alice settled in New York, Theodore’s enthusiasm in politics and his political views led him to join Republican Party. Due to his qualifications he was elected as New York State Assembly from New York City (the youngest person ever elected). He has been serving in the New York Assembly till 1884. He joined the National Guard in 1883 and he was re- elected in New York City. He established two cattle ranches, Maltese Cross and Elkhorn, near Medora, Dakota Territory. In the February of 1884, he faced a double tragedy, Roosevelt's mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt died of typhoid fever; hours later, in the same house, his wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also died from a chronic kidney infection. In 1884, ill heath and death of his wife, he abandoned his political work, invested fortune in his cattle ranches to stay away of the political life. He published his second book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, description of his life in the ranch. In 1886, he returned to his normal active life to New York and married Edith Carow Roosevelt and plunged into politics. In 1888, he published three books called; Life of Gouverneur Morris, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, Essays in Practical Politics. In 1889

hours later, in the same house, his wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt also died from a chronic kidney infection. In 1884, ill heath and death of his wife, he abandoned his political work, invested fortune in his cattle ranches to stay away of the political life. He published his second book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, description of his life in the ranch. In 1886, he returned to his normal active life to New York and married Edith Carow Roosevelt and plunged into politics. In 1888, he published three books called; Life of Gouverneur Morris, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, Essays in Practical Politics. In 1889, he published two volumes of The Winning of the West. Two more volumes of his four-volume history of the frontier would follow in 1894 and 1896. In 1889, after President Harrison's election, Roosevelt was elected as a member of Civil Service Commission of which he became president. He was in charge of the commission till 1895 when he undertook the Police Department of New York City Director. In 1893-4, two other publishes came out by Roosevelt; The Wilderness Hunter and Hero Tales from American History. He left US Civil Service Commission and became Police Commissioner of New York City. His political involvement got serious when he joined President William McKinley's administration as assistant secretary of the navy. To become Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, he resigned of the Navy and served with first US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, the "Rough Riders," during Spanish-American War. Roosevelt commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, but later promoted to Colonel of the regiment before the Battle of San Juan Heights. On the morning of July 1, 1898, American troops in Cuba prepared to make their assault on the Spanish forces holding San Juan Hill. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders waited impatiently for the call to action. "The instant I received the order," Roosevelt remembered, "I sprang on my horse, and then my 'crowded hour' began."

His bravery and zeal for victory of US army helped him to be nominated by the Republican Party as the governor of the New York state. He defeated his Democrat rival, Augustus Van Wyck of Brooklyn. In Oyster Bay in the November of 1900, he held the vice- presidency of the McKinley for a year succeeding US presidency. When President William McKinley was shot while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, Roosevelt, on a hiking trip with his family, was summoned from Mount Tahawus in the Adirondacks to Buffalo. At age 42, Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States, the youngest man ever to become President (John F. Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected to that office at the age of 43). November of 1903 was a determining period for Roosevelt to prove himself by the recognition of the Republic of Panama after Panama seceded from Colombia. US signed a treaty with Panama to build of Panama Canal which completed in 1914 after Roosevelt left presidency.

"Panama declared itself independent and wanted to complete the Panama Canal, and op