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Theodore Roosevelt Launched African Expedition On This Day In 1909
Theodore Roosevelt (pictured), the 26th President of the United States, led an expedition to Africa shortly after his term as presidency ended. Known as the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition, the Smithsonian Institution funded and supplied support for the trip, which had the mission of collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. In over eight years, the expedition…
