How many children did Roosevelt have? Roosevelt had six children and two wives.
His first wife Alice Hathaway Lee died on Valentine’s Day 1884, just two days after giving birth to her only child Alice, the famous Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Even though Theodore Roosevelt thought he would never remarry, he fell in love in 1885 with his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow. They were married in December 1886. Together they had five children: Theodore (1887), Kermit (1889), Ethel (1891), Archibald (1894), and Quentin (1897). Quentin was his favorite. Quentin was the only child that died before Roosevelt himself. Quentin died in an aerial dogfight over Germany during World War I. Roosevelt was a great father. He threw water balloons from the White House roof side by side with his children. He engaged in daily wrestling matches and “bear” fights in the White House. He liked to treat children as little adults (he did not talk down to them), but he was in many ways an overgrown boy himself. His wife Edith said Roosevelt was her seventh child.
