2-365-499 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, c1900s (1955). Roosevelt (1858-1919) became a war hero when he led 'Roosevelt's Roughriders' in a famous charge against Spanish positions at the Battle of San Juan Hill on Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Appointed Vice-President to William Mckinley in 1901, he became the 26th President of the USA when McKinley was assassinated the same year, remaining in office until 1909. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.