I. Introduction

• •Roosevelt and the invention of the modern presidency
• •Roosevelt and progressivism

II. Roosevelt's career

• •Youth



• •1882-1901
• •state legislature (1882-1884)
• •Dakota cowboy (1884-1886)
• •New York Police Commission (1886-1896)
• •Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1897-1898)
• •"Roughriders" (1898)
• •Governor of New York (1898-1900)
• •Vice President (1900-1901)

• •President (1901-1909)
• •United States Steel (1901)
• •Northern Securities Co. and J.P. Morgan (1902-1904)
• •a "trust buster"?

III. Conclusion

• •TR: myth vs. reality
• •the nature of progressivism



• •How Roosevelt made the president the center of the federal government