In October 1910, former president Theodore Roosevelt was in St. Louis campaigning for the Republican governor of Missouri, Herbert Hadley. Upon learning of an "International Aeronautic Tournament" outside the city, the energetic and always inquisitive Roosevelt demanded to see it. "TR" and Hadley arrived at Kin-loch Field on 10 October by an eighty-automobile motorcade— the largest such procession St. Louis had then seen—just as one of the Wright brothers' six aircraft landed near the grandstand. The pilot of the fragile machine was Arch Hoxsey, a pince-nez-wearing aviator who earlier that year had made America's first recorded night flight, and who had recently set an endurance record of 104 miles by flying non-stop to St. Louis from Springfield, Illinois. Hoxsey jumped out of the Model B biplane and walked to Roosevelt's car through an array of Missouri National Guard troops surrounding the vehicle.
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