OVERVIEW:
FULL NAME:
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
BORN:
October 11, 1884;
New York, New York
PARENTS:
Anna Hall
Elliott Roosevelt (brother of Theodore Roosevelt)
DIED:
November 7, 1962 (age 78)
New York, New York
EDUCATION:
Tutored at home until 1899,
Allenswood School, near London, England (1899-1902)
SPOUSE:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(m. 1905; d. 1945)
CHILDREN:
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1906-1975),
James Roosevelt (1907-1990),
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (1909),
Elliott Roosevelt (1910- 1990),
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. ( 1914-1988)
POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat
HIGHLIGHTS:
3/17/1905:
Married Franklin Roosevelt (Fifth Cousin)
1918:
Worked with Red Cross and Navy Hospitals during World War I
1929-1932:
First Lady of New York
1933-1945:
First Lady of the United States
1933:
Became First First Lady to Hold a Press Conference
1935:
Begins Publishing Syndicated Column “My Day”
1939:
Helped Arrange Concert for African-American Singer Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial
1941-1942:
Assistant Director of Civil Defense
1943:
Traveled to South Pacific During World War II
1945-1952:
U.S. Delegate to the United Nations,
Char of the UN Human Rights Commission
1948:
Helped Pass the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950:
Worked with her son Elliott and NBC on a television and radio show
1960:
Active in John Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign
1961-1962:
First Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women,
Reappointed as UN Delegate,
Peace Corps Advisory Commission
PORTRAITS:
RESOURCES:
BIOGRAPHIES:
FDR Library
National First Ladies’ Library
White House
White House Historical Association
First Ladies (C-SPAN)
Wikipedia
RESEARCH:
Papers (George Washington University)
OBITUARIES:
New York Times