Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt was born at 28 East 20th Street in the modern-day Gramercy section of New York City on October 27, 1858(cite), he was the second of four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha Bulloch. He had an older sister named Anna, and two younger siblings which were his brother Elliot and his sister Corinne. The Roosevelt's had been in New York since the mid 17th century and had grown with the emerging New York commerce class after the American Revolution. Until the birth of the Republican Party, just before the Civil War, the family was strongly Democratic in its political outlook. By the 18th Century, the family was upper class, growing in wealth, power and influence from the profits of several businesses including hardware and plate-glass importing. Theodore's father was a New York City philanthropist, merchant, and partner in the family glass-importing firm Roosevelt and Son. Martha Bulloch, Theodore's mom, was a Southern belle from a slave-owning......

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Title: Theodore Roosevelt
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