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    Eleanor Roosevelt

    First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945

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  1. The Early Years. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884. Her father was Elliott Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's younger brother and her mother was Anna Hall, a member of the distinguished Livingston family. Both her parents died when she was a child, her mother in 1892, and her father in 1894.

  2. Nov 9, 2009 · First lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), the U.S. president from 1933 to 1945, was a leader in her own right and involved in numerous humanitarian...

  3. Born on October 11, 1884 in New York City, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the first of Elliot and Anna Hall Roosevelts three children. Her family was affluent and politically prominent, and while her childhood was in many ways privileged, it was also marked by hardship: her father’s alcoholism, as well as the deaths of both parents and one of ...

  4. Eleanor Roosevelt, (born Oct. 11, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 7, 1962, New York City), U.S. first lady and diplomat. The niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she married her distant cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1905. She raised their five children and became active in politics after her husband’s polio attack (1921).

  5. Eleanor Roosevelt. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York City. She was the oldest child of Elliot Roosevelt and Anna Hall. She lost both parents by the age of ten. Following the death of her mother, she was raised by her maternal grandmother, Mary Hall, and later attended a private London finishing school called ...

  6. Mar 31, 2022 · Eleanor Roosevelt reads on a couch in her living room at Val-Kill cottage in Poughkeepsie, New York, in March 1951. Originally the site of one of her many charitable causes, Val-Kill was Eleanor's ...

  7. / Research the Ro... / Biographies and... / Eleanor Roosevelt Biography. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

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