24 (D-107) President Theodore Roosevelt* (the 26th President of the USA) strongly believed in the need to preserve the Grand Canyon area. He visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
Grand Canyon National Park was finally established as the 17th U.S. National Park by an Act of Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson** on February 26, 1919.
Jane
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*Theodore (Teddy Roosevelt) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. His face is one of the four presidents carved on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Who are the other three presidents? What is a "teddy bear"?
**Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the USA and he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 for founding the League of Nations. What did the League of Nations later become?
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