Which US Presidents travelled around the world?
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Accepted answer
Franklin Pierce beat Grant by a decade...
After Office..
in 1857 Franklin Pierce retired from the presidency and left on a grandiose vacation to Madeira, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Rome, where he met up with his longtime buddy, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In 1913 — four years after he left the Oval Office — Teddy Roosevelt took part in an expedition to South America, promising to hunt and bring back animal specimens for display in the American Museum of Natural History. He caught Malaria and nearly died.
In Office
- Theodore Roosevelt was the first commander in chief to travel outside the U.S. on official business, when he sailed to Panama in November 1906.
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