Presidents+and+Politics

Presidents and Politics- //Rule to Remember- “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”-Harry Truman // The items below should chart how the leadership of America changed over the course of the last 108 years? What qualities and characteristics have Americans preferred in their leaders? How have presidents and government succeeded and failed over the course of the century? How do presidents get chosen? 1900 1910 Theodore Roosevelt
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 Theodore Roosevelt was born in a four-story brownstone at 28 East 20th street, in the modern-day Gramersy section of New York City. Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of United States, in that time was assassinated by a social anarchist in September 1901. Roosevelt ascends to the President at the age 42 years old. He was the youngest person to reach presidency in the United States. Before he became president he was an author he wrote three books and he got married again with Edith Kermit Carow. When he was president he organized and helped command the 1st U.S. The Rough Riders during the Spanish war he was the hero then he was elected governor. A “trust Buster” He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trust and capitalism. Also he was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health care. 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910 he broke with his friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose Ticked. Roosevelt toke control of the Panama Canal.  The Roosevelt’s had been in New York since the mid-17th century and had grown with the emerging New York commerce class after the American Revolution. Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family by the 19th century, the family had grown in wealth, power and influence from the profits of several businesses including hardware and plate-glass importing.  Theodore Roosevelt was a governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier.


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 * Theodore Roosevelt as Badlands hunter in 1885. New York studio photo. ||

Theodore Roosevelt as Blandlands hunter in 1885. New York studio photo. Roosevelt built a second ranch, which he named Elk Horn, thirty-five miles (56 km) north of the boomtownb of Medora,North Dakota. On the banks of the Little Missouri, Roosevelt learned to ride, rope, and hunt. He rebuilt his life and began writing about frontier life for Eastern magazines. 


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 * Colonel Roosevelt and the Rough Riders after capturing San Juan Hill ||

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Upon the 1898 Declaration of war launching the Spanish American war, Roosevelt resigned from the Navy deparment. With the aid of U.S. Army Colonel Leonar Wood, Roosevelt found volunters from cowboys from the Western territories to Ivy League friends from New York, forming the first U.S. Volunteer Calvary Regiment. The newspaper called them the "Rough Riders."1 =====

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Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States. He regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. He felt that no one but the President should be expected to look out for the general interests of the country. Wilson took personal control of negotiations with Germany. Woodrow Wilson was born in Virgina in 1854. Woodrow Wilson graduated from Princeton, then the College of New Jersey, and the University of Virginal Law School. Woodrow Wilson died February 3, 1924 in Washington, D.C. =====

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Election of 1912
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For the United States presidential election of 1912 it was fought among three major candidates, two of whom had previously won election to the office. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican party with the support of the conservative wing of the party. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to get the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created a new Progressive Party which was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party. It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. Democrat Woodrow Wilson was nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan. He defeated both Taft and Roosevelt in the general election, winning a huge majority in the Electoral College despite only winning 42% of the popular vote, and initiating the only period between 1892 and 1932 when a Democrat was elected President. Wilson was the second of only two Democrats to be elected President between 1860 and 1932. This was also the last election in which a third party candidate came in second in the Electoral College.

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