Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York, NY, and he was the 26th President of the United States. Born a sickly & asthmatic child, Teddy worked his body to become one of the roughest & toughest presidents in our nation's history. He was a Rough Rider in the Spanish-American War, a Nobel Prize winner, and a staunch conservationist of our nations natural resources. Learn more about this accidental president on this episode of #HappyBirthdayMrPresident. And is it true he inspired the lyrics to a Van Halen song?!