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'''Theodore Roosevelt The 26th President of the United States of America (1901-1909)'''

President Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27th, 1858. He was born at 28 East 20th Street in a modern-day Gramercy section of New York City. His parents were Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha Bulloch. He was younger than his sister Anna (Barnie or Bye) and older than his brother Elliot and his sister Corinne. The family grew in wealth from the power and influence from profits of businesses including hardware and plate-glass importing. His father was a New York City philanthropist, merchant, and partner in the family glass-importing firm Roosevelt and Son. Martha Bulloch was a Southern belle from a slave-owning family in Georgia and had Confederate sympathies.Martha supported her southern relatives' struggles and quietly mailed packages south. Roosevelt was sick and asthmatic when he was younger. He had to sleep propped up in bad or slouching in a chair during most of his childhood. Despite his sicknesses he was as hyperactive and mischievous as he could be. He had an interest in zoology at the age of seven when he saw a dead seal at a local market. He received the seal’s head and Roosevelt and two cousins formed what they decided to call the “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History”. He learned the rudiments of taxidermy, he filled this makeshift museum with animals he caught, studied, and prepped for display. At nine, he titled his observation of insects with a paper titled “The Natural History of Insects. ‘Young Teddie’ as he was nicknamed as a child was mainly home-schooled by tutors and his parents. A leading biographer says: “The most obvious drawback of the home-schooling Roosevelt received was uneven coverage of the various areas of human knowledge.” He was good in geography, history, biology, French, and German, but not very well in mathematics, Latin, nor Greek He was admitted at Harvard College in 1876. His father’s death in 1978 was related either a massive heart attack or several small ones. Although Roosevelt was upset he redoubled his activities. He did well in science, philosophy, and rhetoric courses, but again fared poorly in Latin and Greek. He studied biology with great interest. He was already a naturalist and a published ornithologist. He had developed a life-long habit of memorizing books in every detail due to a photographic memory. He was an unusually eloquent conversationalist that sought out the company of smart men and women. While at Harvard, Roosevelt was in many clubs and edited a student magazine. He was runner-up in the Harvard boxing championship, losing the C.S. Hanks. The sportsmanship Roosevelt showed in that fight was long remembered. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude (22nd of 177), from Harvard in 1880. He entered Columbia Law School and found law boring. This was when he wrote his first major book “The Naval War of 1812”, in 1882. He had an opportunity to run for New York Assemblyman in 1881, he dropped out of law school to pursue his new goal of entering public life. Roosevelt was a Republican activist whilst at the Assembly, writing more bills than any other New York state legislator. He was already major in state politics; he attended a Republican National Convention in 1884. He fought alongside the Mugwump reformers who opposed the Stalwarts; they lost to the conservative faction that nominated James G. Blaine. Refusing to join other Mugwumps in supporting Grover Cleveland, he stayed loyal and continued to support Blaine. Theodore’s first wife, Alice, and his mother, Martha, both died on Valentine’s Day 1884 in the same house. From the next year on Roosevelt refused to speak his first wife’s name again (even omitting her name from his autobiography) and did not allow others to speak of her in his presence. Later in the year of 1884, Roosevelt left the General Assembly and put his daughter Alice in the care of his older sister, Bamie. This is when he moved to his ranch in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory to live a simpler life. This put a strain on his relationship with his daughter Alice. However, when she grew into adulthood she understood her father. The bond between them became strong. Alice continued to support her father’s ideas even after his death in 1919. In 1886, Theodore Roosevelt ran for mayor of New York City and came in third. After the election he went to London and married Edith Kermit Carow. Roosevelt is the only President to have become a widower and remarry before becoming President. Skipping ahead to 1901, President McKinley was shot by an anarchist on September 6th, 1901. When many thought he would recover Roosevelt took a break to go hiking in the mountains. However, a messager found him and told him the president was not doing well and he should return immediately. McKinley died on September 14th, 1901, pushing Theodore Roosevelt into presidency. Roosevelt took the oath of office on September 14th, 1901 in the Ansley Wilcox House at Buffalo, New York. Roosevelt continued McKinley’s cabinet and his basic polices. After his reelection in 1904 he moved to the political left. Theodore Roosevelt dealt with the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 which was a national emergency. This strike threatened the heating supplies of most homes. The strike was ended with a 10% pay increase and a 9-hour day (from the previous 10 hours). That was one of the many things Roosevelt dealt with during his presidency. President Roosevelt died January 6th, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York from pulmonary embolism

Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony was born on February 18th, 1820 in Adams, Mass. Anthony’s father, Daniel Anthony, was a very strict Quaker Abolitionist. He believed in showing them the right things to do instead of telling them what was right and wrong. He did not allow his children to enjoy: toys, games, or music. “Instead, he enforced self-discipline, principled convictions, and belief in one's own self-worth." Before Anthony was enrolled in school, she learned to read and write at the age of three. In the year of 1826 Susan B. Anthony’s family moved from Mass. to Battensville, New York.She attended a public school where the teacher refused to teach Susan long division. Susan was immediately taken from the school and taught in a “home school” her father set up. A woman named Mary Perkins ran the school and offered an image of womanhood to Susan and her sisters. Eventually, Susan was sent to a boarding school near Philadelphia. Susan was a very independent and educated woman. She proudly held a position at a female academy called Eunice Kenyon’s Quaker boarding school. She was very proud to be teaching there because this was usually a position reserved for young men. When she settled in her home in Rochester, New York she began her first public crusade. She was a very self-conscious, about her looks and her speaking abilities. She tried to resist public speaking. However, Anthony worked endlessly. Susan traveled thousands of miles each year through the United States and Europe giving speeches on suffrage. She traveled by carriage, wagon, train, mule, stagecoach, ship, submarine, ferry boat, and sleigh. In a decade after the beginning of the American Civil War, Susan B. Anthony took a noticeable part in the anti-slavery and temperance movements in New York with Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first woman’s state temperance society during 1852 in America. She also attended her first women’s rights convention in Syracuse, New York. In 1856 she became the agent for New York State of William Lloyd Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society. After 1854, Anthony devoted to stirring up public interest in women’s rights. She also opposed abortion. Quote, "No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death, but oh, thrice guilty is he who ... drove her to the desperation that impelled her to the crime!" During 1869, Anthony and Stanton founded the National Woman’s Suffrage Association This organization dedicated to gaining women the right to vote. Anthony was the vice president of the National Suffrage Association until 1892 when she became president. In the early years of the NWSA, Anthony made (with little success) many attempts to unite women in the labor movement with the suffragist cause. Anthony alienated the labor movement, not just because of suffrage being seen as a concern for the middle-class rather than working women, but because she encouraged women to achieve economic independence. Anthony was apart of the NLU for some time but was then expelled over the controversy.

Anthony was honored as the first real American woman on circulating U.S. coinage on the Anthony dollar. This dollar coin is approximately the size of a U.S. quarter, which was only minted for four years (1979, 1980, 1981, and 1999). Anthony dollars were produced at the Philadelphia and Denver mints except in 1999. Susan B. Anthony died on March 13th, 1906 of pneumonia and heart failure. She was in her home in Rochester, New York. Her last public words were, “Failure is impossible.”