Roosevelt assassanation attempts

Theodore Roosevelt was the president of the United states of America from 1904 to 1908. Before that, he was president after president William McKinley was assassinated in September of 1901. He had been the youngest man yet to become president at 42 years old. During his political career, two people had tried to assassinate him. The first attempt to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt occurred in his very own home, the White House. A man arrived, and asked if he was …

…his speech, before leaving for the hospital. John Schrank was put in the Northern State Hospital for the insane in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and then later died in 1943. Despite these assassination attempts, the president died of natural, if not expected, causes. Theodore Roosevelt died on January 6, 1919. The cause of his death was blood clot near the heart. If he had not died, there was a good chance that he would have won the Republican presidential nomination.