Theodore Roosevelt Administrations - Career
Career
After graduating from Harvard in 1880, Roosevelt studied law. However, he soon gave that up. Although he realized "that the lawyer can do great work for justice and against legalism," he felt that "some of the teaching of the law books and of the classroom seemed to me to be against justice" (Roosevelt, p. 61). Roosevelt took a much greater interest in politics. In 1880 he joined the Republican Party, which he would later say was the only choice for "a young man of my bringing up and convictions" (Roosevelt, p. 62).
State Representative
On November 9, 1881, at the age of 23, Roosevelt was elected to the New York state assembly representing New York City's 21st district. He took office on January 2, 1882. Roosevelt began to make a name for himself when in March 1882 he called for an investigation of former attorney general Hamilton Ward and state...
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