Keith Willshaw wrote:

Teddy Roosevelt was one of the more prominent monocle wearers
IRC

Teddy wore pince-nez spectacles, and these figured largely in
caricatures of the period.
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/roosevelt/zoo.htm
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Andrew Chaplin
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