Roosevelt: superhero

If there ever was a real life, flesh-and-blood superhero, this has to have been Theodore Roosevelt. Here's why think so:

• Turned himself from a weakling to a muscular powerhouse
• Beat asthma
• Saved a tramp from the streets in Ireland
• Served as acting Sherriff
• Captured "Redhead" Finnegan
• Sired a sizable brood
• While serving under the Harrison administration he opposed the postmaster general and his creatures on public service reform
• Cleaned the New York city's police, made night rounds in person, and enforced dry Sundays
• Sundered the police connections with the underground
• Was fearless when opposing machine politicians
• Made ready the navy as acting navy chief for war
• Was the first to officially propose the use of "flying machines" in naval operations
• Commanded, in effect, one of the toughest, if not the toughest, regiments: the Roughriders
• Survived the jungles of Cuba
• Dodged bullets while leading the charge in San Juan Hill
• Thought about swimming with sharks
• Could, and actually did, knife a live puma
• By the time he had reached the presidency, he had already read 20,000 books
• His collected works meanwhile covered tens of volumes
• Faced JP Morgan and his radioactive nose and lived to tell the tale
• Could address a quarter of a million in one day without the aid of electronic equipment
• Could shake 52 hands a minute for three hours straight
• Survived a trolley smashing into his carriage with him inside with just minor injuries
• Asked not to be anesthetized for a tumor surgery on his shin
• Gave birth to the Teddy bear… well, of sorts
• Brokered peace between Russia and Japan
• He had his own call signal: glasses and teeth
• Could wolf down, in quantity, almost anything
• Went for a year-long African Safari
• Most amazing of all, survived being shot point blank, by stopping the bullet with his ribs. He went on to deliver a speech for over 45 minutes, bleeding, before allowing to be taken to a hospital
• Barely survived the exploration of the River of Doubt in the Amazon jungle.
• While there, swam in piranha waters. The rest of the neighborhood fauna didn't stop him from reading at night
• Was also a renowned naturalist