Roosevelt arose to the Presidency following the assassination of McKinley and used his incumbency to win a term of his own. However, if memory serves, the party bosses opposed Roosevelt and making him Vice President to begin with was simply to get him out of the way so he could do really nothing. This leads me to believe, and I do believe it is not an uncommon thought here (I've seen it a few times) that T.R. would not have become POTUS were it not for the assassination of McKinley.
So I ask to settle this issue, is it possible for Theodore Roosevelt to become President in his own right rather than upon assassination?
So I ask to settle this issue, is it possible for Theodore Roosevelt to become President in his own right rather than upon assassination?