But few remember the presidential hunting trip and state boundary dispute that led to the sale of the first such bear on this date in 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt, often known as Teddy ...

Forget Reagan, Nixon, and Jackson. Trump’s real presidential forbearer is Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt—a career politician who sought military service, an avid outdoorsman who hunted elephants ...

The "teddy bear" immediately became one of the ... TR was the uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, and gave her away at her wedding to her fifth cousin, future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.