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'''Curtis Bean Dall''' (24 October 1896 - 28 June 1991) was a stockbroker, vice-Presidential candidate, American author, and the first husband of Anna E. Roosevelt.

==Biography==
Dall was born in Manhattan, New York City, [[New York]], the son of Charles Austen Dall and his wife Mary Bean, and grew up on a farm in Piscataway, [[New Jersey]]. He attended Princeton University, and served in the Navy during World War I.  He became a stockbroker and was on the floor on Black Tuesday, the day of the 1929 Stock Market crash.  He was elected Governor of the Associates of Stock Exchange Firm in 1932.  He served in the army Air Force from 1940 until the close of World War II.

Anna's father was the 32nd U.S. president [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], her mother the first lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]. After briefly attending Cornell University, she was married for the first time, in Hyde Park, [[New York]], on 25 June 1926 to stockbroker Curtis Bean Dall. They had two children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on 25 March 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt on 19 April 1930. "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, [[Nevada|Nev]]." (Syracuse Herald, Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Six months after her divorce, on January 18, 1935, she married journalist John Boettiger.  After his death on 31 October 1950, she married (3) 11 November 1952 at Malibu, [[California]], as his second wife, James Addison Halsted.

Meanwhile, Curtis married secondly to Katharine Miller Leas in 1938, they had four surviving children: Katharine, Mary, Stephen and James.

In the 1930's "...he helped to organize what later became the Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company of Houston, one of the largest corporations in the country.  But he sold his interest before the company's real growth began." (see Curtis' obituary).  In the 1940's, he became active in politics, campaigning "...for Strom Thurmond, who was the Presidential nominee of the conservative States' Rights Party".(see Curtis' Obituary) In the 1960s Curtis, an ardent conservative, was a member of the Christian Crusade National Advisory Board, and a member of the Executive Board of "We The People".

Curtis is most cited today for his book ''[[F.D.R. My Exploited Father-In-Law]]'', in which he speaks of his ex-father-in-law, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Franklin's relationship with, as Curtis saw them, the corrupt power of the banking elite of the time. In reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s he states: "Actually it was the calculated ‘shearing’ of the public by the World Money-Powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of the supply of call money in the New York money market."

Dall became involved with the "...racist Right's ill-fated efforts at forming a third party...". In 1960 the Texas-based Constitution Party put-up retired Marine Corps Brigadier General Merritt B. Curtis for president, and campaign manager Curtis B. Dall for vice-president.

In 1968, his name was filed for the Presidential primaries in New Hampshire. In 1971, he was Chairman of the Liberty Lobby[3]  He retired as chairman in 1982.

He died at the Hospice of Northern Virginia in Alexandria, [[Virginia]] in 28 Jun 1991, aged 95, but had last been a resident of Beaufort, Beaufort County, [[South Carolina]] where one of his daughters, Katherine lived.  He left to survive him, his second wife Katharine; Eleanor Seagraves of Washington and Curtis Roosevelt Dall of Majorca, Spain, both from his first marriage; and from his second marriage, Katharine Bolton of Beaufort, S.C., Mary Dunham of Newport, R.I., Stephen of Devon, Pa., and James of Portland, Ore.  in addition to 10 grandchildren and one great-grandson.

==Works==
*Dall, Curtis B. (1983, reprint of 1970 rev. ed.). My Exploited Father-in-Law. Torrance, California: Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Incorpora. ISBN 0-939484-03-X.  (Original edition "F.D.R. My Exploited Father-In-Law", 1967 by Christian Crusade Publications, Tulsa, Oklahoma.)
*Dall, Curtis B. (1972). Amerikas Kriegspolitik - Roosevelt und seine Hintermänner. Tübingen, Germany: Grabert-Verlag. ISBN 3-87847-026-6.

==Further reading==
*The Franklin D Roosevelt Library at NARA has recently "...received correspondence between Curtis B. Dall, Anna Roosevelt's first husband, and the Roosevelt family, donated by his daughter Mary Dall Twichell...."[4] 
*The New York State Archives has 34 linear feet of the Anna Roosevelt papers.[5] 

==Notes==
# [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595236995&id=584-3unXLocC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=%22Curtis+B+Dall%22&sig=T7_KKgbIZvW9mZ8zlJdyeEoeoHA Richardson, Darcy G., A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign, p. 217] 
# Diamond, Sara. Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, p 87 
# [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595236995&id=584-3unXLocC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=%22Curtis+B+Dall%22&sig=T7_KKgbIZvW9mZ8zlJdyeEoeoHA Richardson, Darcy G., A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign, p. 217] 
# http://www.archives.gov/research/accessions/ 
# http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_health_mh_recguide.shtml

==Primary documents==
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1900usfedcen%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Curtis&gsln=Dall&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&fh=0&recid=40228365&recoff=1+3 1900 of Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey] showing : "Charles A Dall 36; Mary B 29; Curtis B 3; Mary A 1; Mary MURPHY 44; May MOORE 41; Louise MOORE 14"
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1910USCenIndex%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=Curtis&gsln=Dall&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&fh=0&recid=47928205&recoff=1+3 1910 Census of Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey] showing : "Charles A Dall 42, Head, MD/MA/KY; Mary B Dall 36, Wife, AZ/ME/TN; Curtis B 14; Mary A 12; Clarence B BREECE 24, NJ, Help; Winthrop H MANGE 60, NJ, Help; Ellen KUZMA 16, Austria, Help"
*Syracuse Herald, Jul 6, 1936. Picture of Curtis B Dall with his two children 
*Syracuse Herald Journal, Feb 2, 1968. Picture. Name filed for New Hampshire Presidential primary
*[http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=264&did=112922799&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1193206954&clientId=54310 Obituary, "Curtis B. Dall, Wed to F.D.R. Daughter In 20's Is Dead at 95"] in the ''The New York Times'', 2 Jul 1991, pg D18
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=Curtis&gsln=Dall&sx=&f9=&f8=&f10=&f6=&f5=&f7=&f1=&f15=&f14=&f13=&f12=&f20=&f0=&prox=1&db=ssdi&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=0&recid=15984999&recoff=1+2 Social Security Death Index] showing : "Curtis B Dall, born 24 Oct 1896, died 28 Jun 1991, SSN issued by New York, last resident Beaufort, Beaufort [County], South Carolina"

==Secondary Sources==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Bean_Dall "Curtis Bean Dall"] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/halstead-anna.htm "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt"], Biography on National Park Service website
*[http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=15807542 "Curtis Bean Dall"] on OneWorldTree at Ancestry.com