What gift is names after Theodore Roosevelt?

Answer 1

The Teddy Bear!

The lovable stuffed toy, long a gift favorite, was created in honor of our 26th president after he refused to kill a bear cub while on a hunting trip. Soon after, a political cartoon about the episode inspired the first manufacture of the Teddy Bear.


Known as 'Teddy', from whence, after an apocryphal incident in which he spared a cub, comes the term 'teddy bear'.

Roosevelt's lasting popular legacy, however, is the stuffed toy bears-"teddy bears"http://www.answers.com/topic/teddy-bear-named after him following an incident on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902. Roosevelt famously refused to kill a captured black bear simply for the sake of making a kill. He would not shoot it because it was unsportsmanlike, and ordered it to be released. A local toy maker heard the story and asked TR if he could use his name on a toy bear. Roosevelt approved and the teddy bear was born. Bears and later bear cubs became closely associated with Roosevelt in political Cartoons thereafter.