The name Teddy Bear comes from former
United States President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy". The name originated from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in
Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor
Andrew H. Longino.
There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had
already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants, led by
Holt Collier,
[2] cornered, clubbed, and tied an
American Black Bear
to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase with hounds. T
hey called
Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused
to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed
that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery[3], and it became the topic of a
political cartoon by
Clifford Berryman in
The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.
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