Are Teddy and Theodore Roosevelt related?

Answer 1

Teddy is short for Theodore. They are the same person. Perhaps you are thinking of Franklin and Theodore? They were cousins. Although the Theodore side of the family wasn't always fond of the Franklin side.

Teddy came first - he was the rough and tough guy who went to Africa on safari and got the Panama Canal built. Teddy bears were named for him. Franklin came later, and was President for four terms. He was married to Eleanor.

Answer 2

Okay... let's straighten out some confusion. Teddy and Theodore are the same. Teddy lived at Sagamore Hill on Long Island, NY. The teddy bear was coined after a political cartoon showing Roosevelt, an avid outdoors-man, hunting bear and refusing to kill a bear tethered by his host. (see this link for more on the story http://www.wrappedandreadygifts.com/Theodore_Roosevelt_The_History_of_The_Teddy_Bear.htm) Franklin D Roosevelt, lived in Hyde Park, NY and he not Teddy was the husband of Eleanor. Franklin was also the author of the "New Deal". Teddy and Franklin were cousins.

Answer 3

Mr. Roosevelt got the nick name of "Teddy" while out hunting. A mother Bear was shot leaving a bear cub orphaned. Theodore Roosevelt brought this cub home and cared for it. That is how he got his nick name of Teddy.

Answer 4

They are the same person - Teddy is a nickname for Theodore

Answer 5

Teddy is a nickname for Theodore!

Answer 6

teddy and theodore are one in the same but i believe Franklin roosevelt and theodore roosevelt are related

Answer 7

Same person...Theodore Roosevelt's favorite anumal was bear...so there is Teddy Bear, I'm serious!

Answer 8

Same person, silly. He's also the one we get the "Teddy Bear" from. One time he went hunting (he loved the outdoors), and saw a young bear. He decided not to shoot it, and when a toymaker came out with a stuffed bear about that time, he named in honor of Roosevelt.

Answer 9

teddy is Theodore Roosevelts nick name dont be emmbaressed i use to ask the same question too

Answer 10

Cousins, and Teddy became Eleanor's Uncle. flow earlier in time to Nicholas Roosevelt, he became born in 1658, the son of Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt who'd come to New Amsterdam in 1649. New Amsterdam would develop into lengthy island in 1674. Now Nicholas is major because he had ten toddlers, 2 of whom would set up both branches of the Roosevelt prolonged kinfolk, making him the most suitable problem-free direct ancestor to the destiny presidents. Son Johannes settled in Oyster Bay, lengthy island, organising the Oyster Bay branch. He became the full-large-large grandfather of Teddy and the full-large-large-large grandfather of Eleanor (Teddy's brother Elliot became her father). Son Jacobus settled in Hyde Park, lengthy island, organising the Hyde Park branch of the kinfolk. He became FDR's large-large-large grandfater. Cousins, Theodore and FDR also grew to develop into in-regulations even as FDR married cousin Eleanor bringing both branches of the kinfolk mutually.