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Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City to glass importer and leading philanthropist ... Washington, one of the leading philosophers of the time (and African American) to dine at the White House, ...

Among its first specimens was the skull of a seal that had washed up in New York Harbor, begged from its owner by the museum's founder, eight year old Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Frail, myopic "Teedie ...

A bronze statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt ... to invite a black man - a former slave and presidential adviser Booker T Washington - to dinner at the White House in 1901.