Theodore Roosevelt s Study Of The War Of 1812 - 1318 Words

Background Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 and died on January 6, 1919. He was the son of Theodore Roosevelt Senior, and Martha Stewart Bulloch, and was fortunate enough to attend Harvard University and Colombia Law School. He accomplished a lot of things in his life which led to him having a successful career in whatever he pursued. He was a politician, author naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who happened to become the 26th president of the United States of America. Roosevelt as a Naval Officer Roosevelt started off by writing a book while still at Harvard about the Naval War of 1812 and how the US Navy played a huge role. In this book he illustrated different strategies that could’ve been used†¦show more content†¦With John D. Long sick, the current secretary of navy, Roosevelt was able to test some of his theories out while he prepared for war with Spain, which led to a naval dominance by the Americas. New York City’s Police Commissioner It all began by Roosevelt declining to run for Mayor of New York in 1894. By 1895 Roosevelt became president of the board of New York City Police Commissioners for two years and started to change the police force. As he took the president spot, the New York Police Department was known for being the most corrupt in America at the time. Roosevelt would have regular inspections of the police department and would pick new rookies based on their physical and mental statues. Roosevelt being the smart man that he was, would make a habit of walking through officers territories at night and in the morning to make sure they were doing their jobs and weren’t slacking. With the breaking apart of the board of commissioners, time would tell that Roosevelt would later replace the whole Police Commissioners with a single Police Commissioner. Theodore Roosevelt as Vice-President Roosevelt originally wanted a second term as governor or to be in the cabinet of the War Department, his closest friend Henry Cabot Lodge saw that this was a dead end and encouraged him to try and become a vice president. McKinley refused to make Roosevelt the secretary of war but didn’t have a problem to allow him to become a Vice President. Roosevelt as Vice President was