The Story of Theodore Roosevelt in My Words:

Theodore Roosevelt graduated from Harvard as an undergraduate and had gone into politics once he was out of college. Roosevelt was appointed by Benjamin Harrison to the United States Civil Service Commission where he worked until 1895.

He worked hard and soon became Assistant Secretary of the Navy, appointed by President William McKinley in 1897. Then he had the privilege to prepare the Navy for the coming Spanish-American war in 1898.

In December 1913, he was 55 years old and went to speak in South America, Brazil’s Minister offered for Roosevelt to explore an unmapped river; the river was called Rio da Dúvida- River of Doubt.

This was after his tragic loss in the 1912 presidential election. He had lost to Woodrow Wilson by 2.2 million votes out of the 15 million that were cast. Three and a half million voted for Taft-600,000 less than Roosevelt. Roosevelt had beat Taft he did not feel proud though was rather bitter. Roosevelt had then retired to Sagamor Hill, Oyster Bay, New York, with his wife and young daughter.

 Soon he was asked to South America to speak, but was confronted by the Minister asking him to explore the rainforest. He and a group of men had mapped the whole 1,000 mile tributary whilst suffering from malaria, several deaths, an indigenous attack, and Roosevelt’s son, Kermit, saving the lot of them.

They had returned several months later. The whole time Theodore Roosevelt had kept a small but lethal dose of morphine with him. The rest of the crates of poison had to be left by the river at the beginning of their journey.

When they had returned many couldn’t believe the men had done what was said. Roosevelt had went home to his family and died on January 6, 1919 of a heart attack at Sagamor Hill, Oyster Bay, New York at the age of 60.