After the election of President William McKinley in 1896, Theodore Roosevelt lobbies hard to be named Assistant Secretary of the Navy. When the US battleship Maine blows up in Havana harbor on ...

In the end, McKinley-Roosevelt won by a landslide. On September 14, 1901, when William McKinley died of bullet wounds inflicted by an assassin, Theodore Roosevelt became the nation's 26th president.

For his second term, McKinley had a less decisive victory, but with Theodore Roosevelt Jr. as his vice president, he still defeated the Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan. Challenges: ...

Campaign In 1901, Roosevelt became the 25th Vice President of the United States. On September 14, 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated. At the age of 42, Theodore Roosevelt became the ...

Theodore Roosevelt became a national ... the Adirondack Mountains when he learned President McKinley had been shot. With McKinley’s death, Roosevelt ascended to the nation’s highest office ...