in 1880. He then studied briefly atColumbia Law Schoolbut soon turned to writing and politics as a career. In 1880 he married Alice Hathaway Lee, by whom he had one daughter,Alice. After his first wife’s death, in 1886 he married Edith Kermit Carow (Edith Roosevelt), with whom he liv...
Theodore Roosevelt became the 26st U.S. President in 1901, and was elected for a second term in 1904. Roosevelt's complex legacy includes his achievements as a progressive reformer and conservationist who regulated big business and established the nation
Roosevelt had married Alice Hathaway Lee, who soon became pregnant. But two days after the baby was born, Roosevelt’s wife died of kidney disease. And, as it happened, Roosevelt’s mother died on the same day, in the same house. She suffered from Bright’s Disease, another disorder affe...
After the death of his mother and wife, he left politics. Roosevelt bought a ranch on the Little Missouri River in North Dakota. He believed that his political career was over, but in 1886 the Independents and Republicans tried to persuade him to run for Mayor of New York. He did not ...
to a daughter, also named Alice, on February 12, 1884. Two days later, the new mother passed away from kidney failure. On the same day, Roosevelt’s mother passed away as well as from typhoid fever. Roosevelt never spoke about his first wife to anyone ever again, even to his daughter...
Although, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, he was second-in-command to his friend, Colonel Leonard Wood, for his army unit in the invasion of Cuba in 1898, the unit was known as Roosevelt's Rough Riders. After his wife Alice's death and funeral in 1884, he returned to work in the New York...
Roosevelt had married Alice Hathaway Lee, who soon became pregnant. But two days after the baby was born, Roosevelt's wife died of kidney disease. And, as it happened, Roosevelt's mother died on the same day, in the same house. She suffered from Bright's Disease, another disorder affecti...
Family Life His niece was future First Lady of the United StatesEleanor Roosevelt. He was married toAlice Lee Rooseveltfrom 1880 to her death in 1884 and married Edith Kermit Carow in 1886. He had six children, named Alice Lee,Theodore, Kermit, Ethel Carow,Archibald Bulloch, and Quentin. ...
On his 22nd birthday, he married Alice Hathaway Lee. They had a daughter, Alice Lee Roosevelt, in 1884. His wife died two days later after an undiagnosed case of kidney failure. His mother died had just died shortly before that. Roosevelt was devastated. He wrote in his journal “the lig...
Around the same time, he married his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, whom he had known as a child (they had watched the funeral procession of Abraham Lincoln from a window in his grandfather's house on Union Square in New York City). Roosevelt soon resumed his career trajectory, first ...