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.
Theodore Roosevelt

President William McKinley

John W. Riggs

William Loeb

Big Jim Rafferty

Reporter

Jim Rawlins

Capt. Leonard Wood

Roosevelt's Secretary

Sen. Platt

Mine Owner

Russell Alger, Secretary of War

Elihu Root, Secretary of State

Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks

Reporter

1st Slum Lord

3rd Slum Lord
Cabinet Member

First Financier
