Even her birth was fraught with trouble, which may have contributed to why she became such a rebel.
Two days after Alice was born, her motheralso named Alicedied of undiagnosed kidney failure.
On the same day, her fathers mother died of typhoid fever.
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Teddy Roosevelt was devastated by the dual loss and never uttered the name Alice again.
Instead, he referred to his rambunctious daughter as Baby Lee.
Alice wrote her parents the following threat: If you send me I will humiliate you.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth christening the submarine named after her father, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, in 1959. (Wikimedia Commons)
I will do something that will shame you.
I tell you I will.
Her parents backed down.
Her stepmom called her a guttersnipe who roamed DC uncontrolled with every boy in town.
Alices misbehavior during her dads presidency was very frustrating for Teddy Roosevelt.
I cannot possibly do both!
At all times she kept a garter snake in her pocket she called Emily Spinach.
Even though Roosevelt was a popular president, the public loved the mischievous Alice even more.
She was quite the social butterfly.
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She also encouraged Congressman Nicholas Longworth III to do the same.
Shortly after returning to the USA, Alice and Longworth were married.
She made headlines by cutting the wedding cake with a sword.
She once said that a Hoover vacuum was more exciting than President Herbert Hoover.
After a second mastectomy in 1970, she called herself Washingtons only topless octogenarian.
She said her philosophy was fill whats empty, empty whats full, and scratch where it itches.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth christening the submarine named after her father, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, in 1959. (Wikimedia Commons)
