Biden is coming to Rolling Fork, but he isn't the first president to visit the MS Delta town

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are expected to visit Rolling Fork on Friday to survey the damage caused by an E-F4 tornado and meet with first responders and survivors.

It will be Biden's first visit to Mississippi as president. He attended a service during his presidential campaign in 2020 at New Hope Baptist Church and spoke at an event at Tougaloo College, both in Jackson, when he was on the campaign trail.

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But Biden is not the first president to visit Rolling Fork. In 1902, Teddy Roosevelt came to the Mississippi Delta to hunt. Legend has it, the then-president refused to shoot a bear that was injured and tethered for Roosevelt to shoot it.

The Great Bear Affair is what led to the invention of the teddy bear, named after the president and the incident. The Teddy Bear is the state's official toy.

Roosevelt's experience is depicted in large wooden sculptures depicting Roosevelt, his hunting dog and the bear across from the Sharkey County Courthouse in Rolling Fork. The sculpture of Roosevelt was damaged in the tornado.

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What other presidents have visited the Magnolia State over the last 50 years? Here's a look back at some of the more noteworthy visits:

Donald Trump toured the Two Mississippi Museums during the museums' grand opening events. He also appeared at a political fundraiser rally in Southaven for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in 2018 and in Tupelo for gubernatorial candidate Tate Reeves in late 2019.

Barack Obama visited the Gulf Coast a few months after the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The spill occurred when an oil rig exploded, killing 11 and releasing over 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Four of the men killed on the rig were from Mississippi.

George W. Bush also visited Mississippi's Gulf Coast and Pine Belt regions to comfort those who lost their homes, belongings and loved ones to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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Bill Clinton made a stop in the Mississippi Delta and toured Clarksdale in 1999 as part of a promotion for his New Markets Initiative to boost business opportunities in underserved communities. The New Markets Tax Credit Program is still active today.

George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle made their first official campaign stop in Gulfport after securing the Republican nomination in 1992. Bush lost to Clinton in his bid for a second term.

Ronald Reagan made several campaign stops in Mississippi in both the 1980 and 1984 presidential races. In 1980, he spoke at the Neshoba County Fair to promote states' rights during the campaign.

Jimmy Carter toured Jackson and Yazoo City in 1977. In Yazoo City, he answered residents' questions during a town meeting.

Gerald Ford visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1976, where he had lunch at the former Fisherman's Wharf restaurant in Biloxi with then-Congressman Trent Lott.

Richard Nixon appeared at Naval Air Station Meridian in 1973, after taking criticism from his "fellow Americans" over the Watergate scandal, according to a story in the New York Times, at the request of U.S. Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi. Many of those attending threw their support behind the beleaguered president, despite the president's reputed corruption, which forced his resignation in 1974.

This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Mississippi presidential visits at a glance. Biden comes Friday