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Theodore Roosevelt was the second of four children. He was born in New York City on October 27, 1858 of Dutch, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French and German heritage. Partially due to poor health, he suffered from Asthma and bad vision, he was educated by tutors un ....

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.... the Badlands of Dakota Territory. There he slowly got over the loss of his wife as he lived in the saddle, driving cattle, hunting big game, and even capturing an outlaw. He returned east in the fall of 1886 to run for mayor of New York against Congressman Abram S. Hewitt and the economist Henry George. Hewitt, a Democrat, won easily with Roosevelt finishing a poor third. Roosevelt then married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow, in London. Edith was an intelligent and cultivated, yet private woman. She bore him four sons; Theodore, Jr.; Kermit; Archibald; and Quentin, and a daughter, Ethel. For two and one-half years after his second ma ....