Who wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the united states

Benjamin Franklin

Explanation:

Although is a myth, it's believed that Benjamin Franklin proposed the turkey as America's bird because he expressed that turkeys were more respectable than eagles when he wrote a letter to his daughter, he also mentioned that turkeys were bird of courage. And even if those declarations were real the turkey was not actually nominated by Franklin.

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