Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was the twenty-sixth president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909, and the author of some forty books. A sickly New York boy who made himself a rancher, hunter and soldier, he was in turn state assemblyman, New York police commissioner, colonel of the Rough Riders in Cuba, governor of New York and vice president before McKinley's assassination made him president at forty-two. He broke up trusts, built the Panama Canal, created national parks and forests and won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Russo-Japanese War. His writings include The Winning of the West, The Rough Riders and his Autobiography (1913).