Born on October 27, 1858, Theodore Roosevelt became one of the most famous and one of the many great presidents of the United States of America. As twenty-sixth President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, also known and T.R. and Teddy, built the Panama Canal, became the first president to ever fly on an airplane and go on a submarine. Teddy also won the Nobel Prize and served the United States with two terms of Presidency. This great role-model is well known among the world.
Teddy was the second of four children. He was a very lonely child because when he was young, he was diagnosted with asthma. He would hardly ever get a chance to get out and play with children his age. So to better his situation, his family moved out to the country where air was found pure and natural. There was usually no one to play around with so he amused himself with nature, his best friend at the time. Teddy found deep amusement about birds and absoloutely loved to study them. He kept diaries and journals about them. Soon, Teddy grew and went to Harvard, where he graduated in 1880 from politics. Four years later, after he had married his wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, his mother and wife died the same day. With great grief, he went out west to become a rancher in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory, where he had met Alice. He was a good rancher, but his main purpose for it was to be accepted among men. He found it an emotional challenge to do because of the reason he had always been a lonely kid.
Teddy was appointed Vice-President in 1901. He became President when President McKinley was fatally shot. Teddy began his first term in Presidency. One of his greatest achievements durig his first term is that is still around and actually helps us still, is the construction of the Panama Canal.
T.R. won the Nobel Peace Prize Award for mediating the Russ
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