The Election Of 1904: Theodore Roosevelt vs. Alton B. Parker
Intro: Hello and welcome back to another edition of the presidential election series for today will be going over the election of 1904, Teddy Roosevelt has been busy for the last several years as the accidentally president, but now his looking to win the up-and-coming election on his own terms...let's get into it. The Progressive President Following the assassination attempt and later death of William McKinley just months after winning a second term in the election of 1900, Theodore Roosevelt (who was McKinley's VP at the time) was sworn in as the 26th president of the United States and becoming the youngest person to ever be president at just 42 years old. While most commander and chiefs take their time when it comes to getting stuff done in their first 100 days never mine their first term, Roosevelt wasn't like most presidents as he made a sweeping amount of change upon entering the White House like regulating monopolies with the help of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, ins