Teddy Roosevelt was born in 1858 to a wealthy New York family, his father was a merchant, who owned a glass factory. His mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a southern family, who were wealthy merchants, and slave owners.
Roosevelt was privately tutored until Harvard, and then Columbia Law in 1882. He was a NY politician and socialite, his persona was created by the New York press. In 1896 he becomes Sec.of the Navy, just in time for the sabotage of the USS Maine, and the Spanish American war.
In 1900 he becomes McKinley's V.P., and in 1901 he ascends to the Presidency.