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Theodore Roosevelt: Writer, Solider and President of the ......
1. His mother and his first wife died on the same day.
On Valentine’s Day in 1884, Roosevelt’s mother passed away from typhoid fever.
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One floor above in the same house, his first wife, Alice, died less than 12 hours later from Bright’s disease and complications from giving birth to the couple’s first child just two days before. “The light has gone out of my life,” Roosevelt wrote in his diary that night.
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Roosevelt was a New York City police commissioner.
After his appointment in 1895, Roosevelt attempted to reform one of America’s most corrupt police departments.
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The future president regularly took midnight rambles to make sure officers were walking their beats. His decision to enforce an unpopular law that banned the sale of alcohol in saloons on Sundays made him a very unpopular figure in New York, but he persisted in the crusade even after receiving two letter bombs in the mail.
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Roosevelt went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River.
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