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Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt

26th U.S. President


Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

President Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most colorful of all the U.S. Presidents. It is no fluke that President Roosevelt is included among the Presidents portrayed on Mt. Rushmore. In addition to the political offices that he held including that of President, Roosevelt was also famous for his achievements as a naturalist, hunter, soldier, explorer, and author. He was an editor of Outlook magazine and he authored at least 18 books.

One of the more endearing stories about President Roosevelt is how the Teddy Bear got its name. On a hunting trip to Mississippi in 1902, President Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear that had been caught, tortured and tied to a tree. The bear was covered in blood and mud and was not much bigger than he. The incident inspired political cartoons which soon appeared in the nation's newspapers. Later that year, F.A.O. Schwarz and a competing toy store began selling thousands of stuffed bears that soon became associated with the bears depicted in the political cartoons. Thus the Teddy Bear was born.

President Roosevelt has one of the more prolific ancestries when it comes to famous kin. In addition to the obvious relatives of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt, he is also related to Presidents Martin Van Buren and James Madison, inventor Thomas Edison, as well as the infamous Lee Harvey Oswald. A descendant of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great, he is also distantly related to Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart, and to Helen Keller and the infamous Lizzie Borden.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Theodore Roosevelt

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Michael Lookinland

TV Actor

16th cousin 5 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Bob Moore

Co-Founder, Bob's Red Mill

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

15th cousin 4 times removed
via John of Gaunt

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

16th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

4th cousin 3 times removed
via John (Jan) Bogert

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

20th cousin 1 time removed
via John, King of England

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

21st cousin
via Sir William Longespee

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

15th cousin 4 times removed
via John of Gaunt

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

16th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

14th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Warren Buffett

Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

16th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

16th cousin
via Richard Fitzalan

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Samuel Prescott

Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

14th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

16th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Glenn Close

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

16th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Catherine Howard

5th Wife of King Henry VIII

6th cousin 10 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Jack London

Author of “The Call of the Wild”

16th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne and TV Personality

16th cousin 5 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Upton Sinclair

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist

16th cousin 3 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Carly Fiorina

CEO of Hewlett-Packard

16th cousin 5 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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John Marshall

4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

15th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Edward Norton

Movie Actor

16th cousin 5 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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William Fishback

17th Governor of Arkansas

16th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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Douglas Trumbull

Film Special Effects Pioneer

16th cousin 4 times removed
via Richard Fitzalan

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