A keen outdoorsman and hunter, he helped form the museum’s collection. Roosevelt occupied the White House from 1901 to 1909. But before defeating the slave-owning Confederacy he married into a slave-owning family and briefly owned a slave himself. Grant led Union armies to victory in the civil war and as president fought the Ku Klux Klan. In San Francisco on Friday a statue of another president, Ulysses S Grant, was among monuments pulled down in Golden Gate Park. The move, announced on Sunday, follows incidents across the US in which statues of Confederate generals and leaders and other historical figures linked to slavery and the dispossession of indigenous Americans have been forcibly removed or destroyed.
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