Colonel Theodore Roosevelt with his Rough Riders in the trenches outside Santiago (1898). Roosevelt returned from Cuba a war hero & was promptly elected Governor of New York. He became 26th President of the USA when McKinley was assassinated in 1901. https://t.co/3JRDKssVU0 pic.twitter.com/SW4uqe63xY
— Dan Hopper (@evohopp) July 16, 2022
Which prompts the question, which president was under fire in the front lines of battle closest to his term of President. Teddy Roosevelt was three years. Andrew Jackson was about a decade. George Washington was six years. Nobody else is coming to mind.
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