Theodore Roosevelt was a career politician. He was a New York State Assemblyman, US Civil Service Commissioner, President of New York Board of Police Commissioners, Governor of New York State, Assistant Secretary of the Navy , Vice-President and President of the USA.
Before becoming US President at age 42, Theodore Roosevelt was a New York State Assemblyman, US Civil Service Commissioner, President of the New York Board of Police Commissioners, Governor of New York State, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Vice-President of the US.
Roosevelt was governor of New York just before he was US vice-president. Before that he was Assailant-Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley.
New York State Assemblyman, elected 1881
They were both governor of New York. FDR became governor in 1929 and Theodore was governor of NY in 1898.
Theodore Roosevelt was the president who called the office of President (the position, that is, not the Oval Office room specifically) of President a "bully pulpit". Lots of Presidents have "used it effectively" (Lincoln, FDR, and JFK definitely used their Presidencies to promote their own ideals, for example), but it was Theodore Roosevelt who came up with the term.
President Theodore Roosevelt resigned from his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and formed the Rough Riders. After the Spanish American War he was elected as governor of New York.
Roosevelt held the position that the government should be able to regulate trusts. Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th U.S. President.
William Howard Taft was secretary of war under Roosevelt's administration.
Senator for the state of New York.
Senator for the state of New York.
The youngest man to be president of the United States was Theodore Roosevelt, who took office at the age of 42, following president McKinley's assassination. The youngest man to be elected into the position was John F. Kennedy, at 43.
Teddy's position on trust was that he believed that not all trust were bad, but he did sought to curb the ones that were harmful to the public interest.
He did not hold being the senator for the state of New York.
President Roosevelt wanted to help Britain instead of remaining neutral.
He was elected as the vice-president and became the president because the President took sick and died. He was the first president to take office without being elected to the position, and the press of the day called him "His Accidency" throughout his term of office.