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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.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ ˈɛlɪnɔːrˈroʊzəvɛlt / EL-in-or ROH-zə-velt; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. [ 5 ][ 6 ] She was the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt 's four terms as president, making her the longest ...
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977) Eleanor and Franklin is a 1976 American television miniseries starring Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt which was broadcast on ABC on January 11 and 12, 1976. [1] It is the first part in a two-part "biopic" miniseries (with a later sequel ...
Eleanor and Franklin with their first two children, 1908 During his second year of college, Roosevelt met and proposed to Boston heiress Alice Sohier, who turned him down. [ 12 ] Franklin then began courting his childhood acquaintance and fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt , a niece of Theodore Roosevelt. [ 27 ]
Margaret Lynch Suckley / ˈsʊkliː / (December 20, 1891 – June 29, 1991) was a sixth cousin, intimate friend, and confidante of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as an archivist for the first American presidential library. [1] She was one of four women at the Little White House with Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Georgia, when he died ...
Lucy Page Mercer was born on April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C., to Carroll Mercer, a member of Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" cavalry military unit in the campaigns in Cuba, on the south shore of the island near Santiago during the brief Spanish–American War in 1898, and Minna Leigh (Minnie) Tunis, an independent woman of "Bohemian" exotic, free-spirited tastes. [1]
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor, his fifth cousin once removed, were married on St. Patrick's Day in 1905. A year after their wedding, former President Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor's uncle, wrote ...
James and Sara were married on October 7, 1880, and became the parents of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1882, who married Eleanor Roosevelt. James reportedly was a caring father to Franklin, but his recurring heart problems eventually made him an invalid. Franklin reacted by becoming fiercely protective of his father.