Upton Sinclair Biosketch
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Thayne Wade Mr. Myers APhun May 18, 2012 Upton Sinclair was most likely not the person who assassinated Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, but he was definitely a suspect. Sinclair was an American author, who lived from 1878 to 1968, in 1912, he was 34 years old. He was the muckraking Journalist who, in 1906, exposed the conditions in the American Meat packing Industry with his novel The Jungle. In 1920 and in 1922, he ran for the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively, because of the fact that he ran as a socialist, he is a much better candidate for the assassination of Roosevelt, as he could have been against his foreign policies.