Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

The Republican was one of the more flamboyant of the country's presidents, serving two terms from 1901-09, and is often ranked in the top five in terms of achievement.

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But there is no doubt his legacy is complex - a man who won widespread praise for proposals that led towards a welfare state, while also advocating eugenics.

He was the first US president to invite a black man - a former slave and presidential adviser Booker T Washington - to dinner at the White House in 1901. The decision enraged southern states.

But according to biographer Edmund Morris, Roosevelt also believed black people were "altogether inferior to whites" and once remarked they were "two hundred thousand years behind" whites.

"Teddy", as he is known, is one of the four faces on the famous Mount Rushmore monument, where he joins Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.