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Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Early Years
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“Teedie”
  • Wealthy Family
    • Father - Dutch immigrant
    • Mother - Southern Belle
  • Father - role model, honest, determined
  • Mother - energetic, caring
  • Sickly child - severe asthma, very nearsighted
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“I’ll make my own Body!”
  • His struggle with asthma strengthened & shaped his character.
  • He had the mind; he had to work out to make his body.
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An Active Life/Wild Child!
  • Loved physical competition.
  • Took up boxing age 12 to “make his body”.
  • A reader - loved adventure novels.
  • Animal/Nature lover - became an amateur zoologist.
  • Wanted to please his father - his role model.
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Tragedies
  • 1877- father dies at age 48;
  •             TR only18.
  • Valentines Day 1884
    • Mother, dies of typhoid fever
  • …hours later…
    • Wife Alice, 22, dies following the birth of their daughter.