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Most people would agree that even if Theodore Roosevelt had never become president, he would still be seen as a very important and interesting man, because of all the things he did, before serving as President of The United States. To begin, I chose the picture of the New York assembly, because this was one of the first hints of Theodore Roosevelt’s political career. He was elected to the New York Assembly and served two terms from 1882 to 1884. He wasted no time in making his mark, introducing 4 new bills within the 48 hours of the legislative session : water purification, aldermanic election reform, finance reform for New York City, and judicial reform. Despite passage of only a significantly modified version of the aldermanic bill, his efforts gained him the leadership of an informal group of reform Republicans who were…show more content… The New York Times legislative correspondent, George Spinney, also discovered that Roosevelt made good copy, and other journalists soon followed his lead. Next, I chose the image of a pen on paper, because he was also a significant author. He wrote somewhere near 45 books, and while he did write a lot of these books after his presidency, he wrote a good number of them before it. Next, I chose a picture of Roosevelt standing in front of Navy ships, because in 1897, President William McKinley had appointed Roosevelt as the assistant secretary of the navy. Although, he left that post with the outbreak of the Spanish American war, hence the photo of the soldier. He became the colonel of the First Volunteer Cavalry in the history of the U.S, the ‘Rough Riders’. They returned as the most visible heroes of war. Finally, I also chose a picture of the U.S Civil Commission, because he was appointed to it twice, by two different presidents. First in 1888, by Benjamin Harrison, and then later in his
