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When President McKinley was shot at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, NY in 1901, TR became the youngest person ever to become President. He was only 42. As President Theodore Roosevelt he continued to be a very visible and traveled leader shown here on a New England tour in 1902.
September of 1902 found TR speaking in Asheville, North Carolina.
The famous bear hunt in 1902 would forever link Theodore Roosevelt and the "Teddy" bear in political cartoons, children's stories and toys. The bear hunt had been unsuccessful and the guides and dogs captured an old female bear and tied it to a tree for the President to get "his shot". TR refused. Political cartoonist Clifford Berryman captured both the sportsmanship and the politics of the day in his cartoons.
	This 1903 photo shows the President, his wife Edith and their six children at the family home of Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on Long Island, New York. TR loved his family and spent hours roaming the hills and rowing the shores with the children.
President Roosevelt in the White House. [1903]
	Theodore Roosevelt considered the Presidency a "bully pulpit", a good place from which to make a statement to the public about the way things ought to be. All the time he had spent learning about how people lived from the ranchers and small farmers in the west, tenement dwellers and shop keepers in the city, and soldiers in battle helped him identify with ordinary citizens from all walks of life. Here he speaks to an audience in Evanston (near Chicago) in 1903.

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