As a boy, TR's asthma was so bad he slept in a chair most nights.
Due to poor health, he couldn't play sports or attend public school.
Instead, he collected dead animals and bugs.
After one doctor's exam, TR's physician advised he pursue a desk job, one with low strenuous activity.
TR had different plans.
He engaged in rowing, boxing, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Porcellian Club and edited a student magazine at Harvard University.
(He placed runner-up in Harvard's boxing championship.)
After entering Columbia Law School, TR dropped out to run for New York Assemblyman and write a best-selling book about Naval history.
In his late-2os TR entered politics, left politics and built a ranch where he learned to rope and ride.
He chronicled frontier life for Eastern magazines, then became a deputy sheriff, hunting and capturing outlaws.
TR returned to city life as president of NYC's Police Commissioners' Board.
Two years later, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
TR then commanded a rugged cavalry unity (the Rough Riders) in the Spanish-American War.
Post-war, he was nominated governor of New York and soon after McKinley's Vice-President.
When McKinley was assassinated, TR became president of the U.S., aka the most powerful man on earth.
How did TR become famous?
TR beat fame over the head with a big stick.
See TR & his Rough Riders here:
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