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Why was Teddy Roosevelt the Secretary of the Navy?

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Why was Teddy Roosevelt the Secretary of the Navy?

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President William McKinley appointed Theodore Roosevelt to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897. The Secretary of the Navy at the time was John D. Long , who was away from Washington often, and not very active in his post, in essence giving Roosevelt control over the Navy.