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When we think of , we think of him as the twenty-sixth President of the United States. However, there was a much bigger picture to this man. A great man was born in New York City on October 27, 1858, this man was . At an early age, Theodore suffered from asthma ....

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.... From 1884 to 1886, because of his loneliness, Roosevelt wrote writing history books and operated a cattle Ranch in the Dakota Territory. In 1886, Roosevelt returned home to marry his childhood sweetheart Edith Kermit Carow. Theodore and Edith had four sons and one daughter. The energetic young Roosevelts would become the liveliest group of children to live in the White House. In 1887, President William McKinley named Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In this office, Roosevelt worked behind the scenes for war against Spain, which was struggling to suppress an independence movement in Cuba. He was animated both by strategic consideratio ....