
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
Directed by Ray Enright
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Sidney Blackmer
Theodore Roosevelt

Douglas Wood
President William McKinley

Selmer Jackson
John W. Riggs

Theodore von Eltz
William Loeb

Arthur Loft
Big Jim Rafferty

John Ridgely
Reporter

Glenn Strange
Jim Rawlins

Robert Warwick
Capt. Leonard Wood

Frank Wilcox
Roosevelt's Secretary

Pierre Watkin
Sen. Platt

Wedgwood Nowell
Mine Owner

Edward McWade
Russell Alger, Secretary of War

Edward Van Sloan
Elihu Root, Secretary of State

Earl Dwire
Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks
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