Theodore D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1904. His main competitor was Democrat, Alton B. Parker, This will be his second term in office after he took over for president McKinley's untimely death. Roosevelt was very popular with the people. He was born to a wealthy New York family but, was by no stretch of the imagination "A Man of leisure."He traveled extensively, wrote countless books, was an avid outdoors man, and to certain extent a scientist. When Roosevelt was elected Governor of New York in 1898 he at once started annihilating crime rings within the state with Anti-corruption Campaigns.
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Roosevelt's attack on organized crime annoyed many people in high places. It was arranged that he would be made vice president in the 1901 election to get him out of their hair. This seemed to work at first until McKinley's death which turned Roosevelt into the most powerful man in America.
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