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Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt
Brad Delzer as Teddy Roosevelt in Mercedes Ray.

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement.

A fictionalized version of Teddy Roosevelt was portrayed by Brad Delzer in the film Mercedes Ray, where he parties like a wild animal.

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[edit] About Teddy Roosevelt

President McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, on September 6, 1901. Vice President Roosevelt had been delivering a speech in Vermont when he got word of McKinley's shooting. He arrived in Buffalo the next day, accepting an invitation to stay at the home of Ansley Wilcox, a prominent lawyer and friend since the early 1880s when they had both worked closely with New York State Governor Grover Cleveland on civil service reform. Wilcox would recall that "the family and most of the household were in the country, but he was offered a quiet place to sleep and eat, and accepted it." Roosevelt took the oath of office in the Ansley Wilcox House at Buffalo, New York borrowing Wilcox's morning coat. Roosevelt did not swear on the Bible nor on any other book, making him unique among presidents. He was the youngest person to assume the presidency, and he promised to continue McKinley's cabinet and his basic policies. Roosevelt did so, but after reelection in 1904, he moved to the political left, stretching his ties to the Republican Party's conservative leaders.

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