Theodore Roosevelt; probably the most loved president in the United States President history. He was a very popular Republican President, until his worst night mare came true.
He was ready to be the president for his third term everyone wanted him to win. He was very confident in himself; he was 5 feet and 8 inches tall and had a voice like he swallowed a whole balloon of helium. He was an inspiration, idol, hero, and leader to many Americans. His opponent was Woodrow Wilson and in 1912 they made their speeches in the Madison Square Gardens and that was one of Roosevelt’s most famous speech he has every said. But unfortunately there was a major surprise for who won the election and that was Wilson (he won the election).
Almost a year later after Roosevelt suffering major depression and getting lots of hate from Republicans, he got offered a trip to the Amazon River and to explore the River of Doubt, where his son lived. He went on the trip and didn’t expect to be living the hardest 6 months ever. He got cut in the rainforest and that cut got very infected he thought he was going to die. He couldn’t even sit up there was too much pain.
He eventually went back to the United States a few months of pain later. After he got back a few years later the World War 1 broke out in Europe and he helped Wilson with the hard decisions to make. When the United States finally entered the war in 1917, he offered to organize a volunteer division but the War Department turned him down. All four of his sons fought in the War and when his youngest son, Quentin, was shot down and killed while flying a mission in Germany, Roosevelt became despondent. Roosevelt became very depressed and but he agreed to tour and make speeches all around the U.S. but they weren’t as good as they used to be. Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep on January 6, 1919, in his beloved house at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, New York.
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