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The teddy bear got its name when a political cartoonist named Clifford K. Berryman drew a cartoon about the then President Theodore Roosevelt, nicknamed, Teddy, and the mercy-killing that he approved of for a bear. It was said that during his leisure time he hunts and one time he came into a wounded bear and ordered mercy killing towards the animal.
