for a list at TopTenz.net: “Roosevelt participated in several of the most badass adventures of any American politician. In the mid-1880s, Roosevelt worked as a deputy sheriff in the Dakotas. In that capacity, he hunted down, and eventually captured, three outlaws who stole his riverboat and tried to escape north with it up the Little Missouri. He not only took the thieves back overland for trial in Dickinson, but guarded them for forty hours without sleeping. When the Spanish-American War broke out, Roosevelt resigned from his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, formed the famed ‘Rough Riders,’ and served with them in Cuba.”

Of course, even when he left office, he still demonstrated his determined nature in the aforementioned attempted assassination of 1912. On this day, 101 yearsfrom his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, formed the famed “Rough Riders,” and served with them in Cuba.Read more at http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-badass-politicians-of-all-time.php#FpgWU4QbB75iRpD9.99 Both before and after, Roosevelt participated in several of the most badass adventures of any American politician. In the mid-1880s, Roosevelt worked as a deputy sheriff in the Dakotas. In that capacity, he hunted down, and eventually captured, three outlaws who stole his riverboat and tried to escape north with it up the Little Missouri. He not only took the thieves back overland for trial in Dickinson, but guarded them for forty hours without sleeping. When the Spanish-American War broke out, Roosevelt resigned from his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, formed the famed “Rough Riders,” and served with them in Cuba.Read more at