At first, Theodore Roosevelt, who was commander-in-chief from 1901 to 1909, seemed an unlikely candidate for the 1912 presidential election. After backing his close friend William Howard Taft to serve as his successor, he disappeared on an extended hunting trip to Africa.
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The Venezuelan Boundary Dispute officially began in 1841, when the Venezuelan Government protested alleged British encroachment on Venezuelan territory. In 1814, Great Britain had acquired British Guiana (now Guyana) by treaty with the Netherlands. Because the treaty did not define a western boundary, the British commissioned Robert Schomburgk, a surveyor and naturalist, to delineate that boundary.
D. Fascist dictators assumed power. (Hitler, mussolini, Franco
James Madison<span>, also present, wrote the document that formed the model for the Constitution. Other </span>U.S. Founding Fathers<span> were not there, but made significant contributions in other ways. </span>Thomas Jefferson<span>, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was serving as ambassador to France at the time of the Convention</span>
