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Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to global political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore's niece.
In 1903, Franklin proposed to Eleanor. Despite resistance from his mother, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17, 1905. [12] [29] Eleanor's father, Elliott, was deceased; Theodore, who was then president, gave away the bride. [30] The young couple moved into Springwood. Franklin's mother, Sara Roosevelt, also provided a ...
Sara Ann Roosevelt (née Delano; September 21, 1854 – September 7, 1941) was the second wife of James Roosevelt I (from 1880), the mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States and her only child, and subsequently the mother-in-law of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Father of Livingston Delano Roosevelt (born March 16, 1962; died March 21, 1962). Adopted four stepchildren from Patricia Peabody Roosevelt's first marriage. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (II) August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988 Ethel du Pont: Father of: Franklin Delano Roosevelt III (b. 1938) [53] Christopher du Pont Roosevelt (b. 1941) [53 ...
It is named after Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, all of whose ancestors emigrated from Zeeland, the Netherlands, to the United States in the seventeenth century. In 1988, Eleanor Roosevelt College , one of eight undergraduate residential colleges at the University of California, San Diego, was founded.
Through his daughter Sara, he was a grandfather of the 32nd President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who married his fifth cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and was the father of six children, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, James Roosevelt II, Franklin Roosevelt (who died in infancy), Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., and John ...
Family of Franklin D. Roosevelt: March 4, 1933 — April 12, 1945 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Anna, James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., and John: In 1937, the President's oldest son James moved into the Executive Residence and served as an advisor and private secretary in the West Wing. At the President's request, his daughter Anna moved into the ...
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