Though policy played an important role in President Theodore Roosevelt's Oval Office tenure, the ex-POTUS's legacy is understood whole lot better through the moose-riding, boxing-rich, manly-nonsense-fueled photos taken throughout his life.
From his trips to Yosemite to the aftermath of his thwarted assassination attempt, here is President Roosevelt's insane legacy, as told in 20 photos.
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“Teddy Roosevelt, 1910. He may be know for being shot and then giving speech whilst being wounded, but he was also a cowboy, a police commissioner in New York, invented the forward pass in American football, climbed a mountain while on his honeymoon and had a tattoo of his family's crest on his chest.”
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“Future president Theodore Roosevelt in his hunting gear, 1885.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt, President of the United States, was an avid boxer and wrestler while attending Harvard, 1876.”
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“Former President Theodore Roosevelt in Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1914. This picture is possibly during the Campaigning for the [contest] 1914. This was the time he had returned from his Amazon expeditions and was strongly against Wilson's policy in The Great War.”
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“My Great Great Grandfather, 26th VP of the US, Charles Fairbanks, with President Teddy Roosevelt - 1904.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt, 1879.”
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"...Teddy Roosevelt, entering Yellowstone Park. (1903).”
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“One of the only known photos of Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt together in person, 1915.”
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“August 23, 1902, Providence, Rhode Island. U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt delivers his "Trust Speech" and warns of prosperity being concentrated in the hands of the few, particulary large corporations. (Colorized).”
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“An X-ray of Theodore Roosevelt's chest showing the bullet fired by John Schrank during the former president's speech in Milwaukee from the side, Teddy had previously concluded that he had not been hit in any vital organs and continued his speech. October 1912.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt, 1912.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt[’s shirt after being] shot in the chest while giving a speech, surviving because of his glasses case and script in his pocket. He declined medical care, declaring ‘Ladies and gentlemen[…]I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.’”
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“President Theodore Roosevelt reads a book, while his dog Skip rests in his lap, in the doorway of the West Divide Creek ranch house in Colorado on September 12, 1905.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt speaking at the back of a railroad car, May 25, 1907.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt Becomes the First US President to Fly in an Airplane, 1910.”
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“26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, and famous naturalist, John Muir, on Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park in 1906.”
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“Teddy Roosevelt (center, glasses) and his Rough Riders. 1898.”
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“Photo of Teddy Roosevelt from a Set of Glass Photo Negatives I Found in a Barn c1898.”
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“Great Great Grandfather as a Rough Rider under the Leadership of Teddy Roosevelt, 1898.”
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