TEDDY ROOSEVELT

Real Name: Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Identity/Class: Human ghost;
   formerly zombie

Occupation: Ghost;
   formerly President of the United States, Vice President, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New York, soldier, big game hunter, cattle rancher, New York City Police Commissioner, author, Billings County Deputy Sheriff

Group Membership: None;
   formerly 1st United States Voluntary Cavalry ("Roosevelt's Rough Riders": Bill Stewart, others)

Affiliations: None;
   formerly Necromancer (Michael Hawthorne)

Enemies: Agent Gorman, Agent Emily Preston, Spanish Army circa 1898;
   formerly Deadpool ("Wade Wilson");
   possibly Electrans (Koaa, others) (see comments)

Known Relatives: Theodore Roosevelt Sr (father, deceased), Martha Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (mother, deceased), Anna Roosevelt, Corinne Roosevelt (sisters, deceased), Elliott Roosevelt (brother, deceased), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (distant cousin, deceased), Anne Hathaway Lee (first wife, deceased), Edith Kermit Carow (second wife, deceased), Alice Lee Roosevelt, Ethel Roosevelt (daughters, both deceased), Theodore Roosevelt III, Kermit Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt (sons, all deceased)

Aliases: T.R.

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
   formerly White House, Washington D.C.; New York City; Elkhorn Ranch, North Dakota; Chimney Butte Ranch, Missouri

First Appearance: Battle#34/2 (November 1954)

Powers/Abilities: As well as being an expert politician, Roosevelt was a marksman, experienced hunter and skilled horse rider.

   As a zombie Roosevelt possessed superhuman strength, sufficient to lift cars aloft with ease, and while he could still sustain damage as easily as a regular human, most injuries merely irritated him, even shots to the head. He retained all the skills and intellect he had possessed while alive, but colored by a zombie's lack of empathy and tendency towards brutal violence.

Height: 5'10"
Weight: 210 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White, formerly brown

History:
(real world) - Born October 27th 1858, Theodore Roosevelt Jr was the son of a businessman and a socialite. A sickly but intelligent child, he was homeschooled, and took an avid interest in zoology from a young age. He conquered his childhood asthma through a strict, self-imposed regime of heavy exercise, and took up boxing both for self-defense and to strengthen his body further. He studied biology at Harvard and law at Columbia before moving into politics, initially in the New York State Assembly. In the 1880s he took a break from politics, hunting bison in the Dakota Territory and establishing a ranch in North Dakota. After returning to the political scene toward the end of the 1880s, in 1889 he was appointed by new President Benjamin Harrison to the United States Civil Service Commission.

(Ruins of Ravencroft - Sabretooth#1 - BTS) - In 1891 a Skrull spaceship landed near Westchester and a group of Skrulls disembarked on an unrevealed mission; one of the Skrulls took on the appearance of Roosevelt (see comments).

(real world) In 1895 Roosevelt left the Civil Service Commission to take up a post on the board of the New York City Police Commissioners. In 1897 the new President, William McKinley, appointed Roosevelt the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

(Battle Action#23/4) - In 1898, while working as Assistant Secretary for the Navy, Roosevelt read in the newspapers of Cuban farmers successfully repelling the Spanish army while fighting for their country's independence from Spain. Pleased for the Cubans, Roosevelt expressed the opinion that the Cubans needed help in their struggle.

(Battle#34/3 (fb) - BTS) - In April 1898 with the declaration of the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt quit the Navy Department to organize and joined the 1st U.S. Cavalry,...

(real world) - initially as second-in-command to Colonel Leonard Wood. When Wood was promoted to command the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Roosevelt took over the 1st,

(Battle#34/3 (fb) - BTS) - dubbing them his Rough Riders. The Regular Army laughed at "T.R." and his unit, considering them undisciplined show-offs, school boys playing at war, but Roosevelt persevered.

(Battle#34/3) - Now a Colonel, Roosevelt trained his volunteers, and later led them in the Battle of San Juan Hill against the Spanish Army. Nearing the main battle at San Juan Hill, Roosevelt and his men found a Spanish outpost on Kettle Hill blocking their way, so Roosevelt led his men in a cavalry charge against the outpost and captured Kettle Hill. With the regular army struggling to take the Spanish-controlled blockhouse on San Juan Hill, Roosevelt then led his men as they raced across the valley between both hills through heavy fire and charged the block house from the rear, which ultimately caused that to fall to the American forces too, winning the day and finally earning the Rough Riders the respect they deserved from the regular army.

(real world) - Returning from Cuba in the latter part of 1898 Roosevelt won the election for Governor of New York, and in March 1901 he became McKinley's Vice President. In September that year McKinley was shot by an assassin, dying several days later, and Roosevelt became the President.

(Combat Kelly I#35/4) - In 1905 President Roosevelt announced that the recipients of the Medal of Honor should always, where practicable, be ordered to Washington for a formal and impressive ceremonial presentation made by the President of the United States.

(real world) - Having won two Presidential elections, Roosevelt chose not to run again (there being no two-term limit at this time). After leaving office he spent time on safari in Africa, hunting native animals as specimens for the Smithsonian Institute and American Natural History Museum. Feeling that his successor William Taft had done a poor job, Roosevelt campaigned to replace Taft as the Repulican party's nomination for the next Presidential election, but lost. He split from the Republicans to form the Progressive Party and run for President again that way, and during the campaign narrowly survived an assassination attempt that left him with a bullet lodged in his chest. After losing the 1912 election to Woodrow Wilson, Roosevelt accompanied a scientific expedition to South America the next year. When the Great War broke out in Europe in 1914, Roosevelt strongly disagreed with Wilson's decision to keep America out of the conflict. He passed away on January 6th 1919 at the age of sixty.

(Strange Tales I#80/2) - When the extradimensional Electrans launched an invasion of Earth near to Mount Rushmore, the heads carved into Mount Rushmore apparently came to life and emerged from the mountain with giant bodies attached, then confronted the aliens. The Electrans' weapons proved ineffective against the giants, so they fled back to their own dimension. Lynwood, a scientist who witnessed the invaders' arrival and departure, but not the reason for them fleeing, subsequently discovered huge footprints leading back to Rushmore, and speculated that the men who had protected the nation during their lifetimes had somehow returned to do so once again (see comments).

(Deadpool V#1 (fb) - BTS) - Believing that America was falling apart and needed those who had lead it in the past to save it, the Necromancer raised every deceased former President as zombies, including Teddy Roosevelt. The group soon gathered together at Liberty Hall in Pennsylvania to discuss their plans of action. 

(Deadpool V#1 - BTS) - Hired by the government to eliminate the zombies, Deadpool crashed the meeting, but was shot and temporarily incapacitated by Abraham Lincoln. George Washington then proposed that the zombies go forth and destroy the country so it could be rebuilt from scratch, a motion that was resoundingly passed by all the zombies, including Roosevelt.

(Deadpool V#2 (fb) - BTS) - Roosevelt decided to resume his career as a big game hunter, and attacked Los Angeles Zoo.

(Deadpool V#2) - Armed with a rifle, Roosevelt shot dead a giraffe,

(Deadpool V#2 - BTS) - then went over to the bear enclosure and shot one of the residents, but only managed to wound and enrage it.