Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor was the daughter and eldest child of Elliott Roosevelt and his wife Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall who had married in New York City on 1 Dec 1883. Elliott and Anna had another child Paul born in 1890. All was unwell however, for Elliott had a weakness for liquor and a precarious mental condition. Doris Faber describes his wife Anna as exhibiting a "chill religiosity", and that after several increasingly tense years "she all but banished him." | Eleanor was the daughter and eldest child of Elliott Roosevelt and his wife Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall who had married in New York City on 1 Dec 1883. Elliott and Anna had another child Paul born in 1890. All was unwell however, for Elliott had a weakness for liquor and a precarious mental condition. Doris Faber describes his wife Anna as exhibiting a "chill religiosity", and that after several increasingly tense years "she all but banished him." | ||
− | <table><tr><td>Eleanor in her own autobiography states that they went to Italy where she remembers being with her father when they visited Vesuvius, and that for several months her mother settled in a house in "Neuilly, outside of Paris." A third child was on it's way, and Elliott was at this time, apparently temporarily in an asylum. In an 18 Aug 1891 ''New York Times'' article, Theodore Roosevelt, who would be elected President in 1900, petitioned the New York Supreme Court to have his brother Elliott declared insane and for a commission "...to legally pass upon his condition in order that a committee may be appointed to take charge of his person and estate....Three times he threatened to commit suicide." Elliott was then living in a private asylum in France.</td><td>http:// | + | <table><tr><td>Eleanor in her own autobiography states that they went to Italy where she remembers being with her father when they visited Vesuvius, and that for several months her mother settled in a house in "Neuilly, outside of Paris." A third child was on it's way, and Elliott was at this time, apparently temporarily in an asylum. In an 18 Aug 1891 ''New York Times'' article, Theodore Roosevelt, who would be elected President in 1900, petitioned the New York Supreme Court to have his brother Elliott declared insane and for a commission "...to legally pass upon his condition in order that a committee may be appointed to take charge of his person and estate....Three times he threatened to commit suicide." Elliott was then living in a private asylum in France.</td><td>http://students.umf.maine.edu/~damboial/Pictures%20for%20webpage/eleanor2.png</td></tr></table> |
Upon their return from Europe, Anna and Eleanor lived with her widowed mother Mrs. Ludlow, for a short time. "We moved back to New York, the autumn that I was seven, to a house which my mother had bought and put in order on East 61st Street, two blocks from Auntie Bye..." (Autobiography, p. 8) She then however discusses incongruously and without explanation her life in the house on 37th street with her grandmother Ludlow and her mother's sisters. Her father although not then living there, was a frequent visitor. | Upon their return from Europe, Anna and Eleanor lived with her widowed mother Mrs. Ludlow, for a short time. "We moved back to New York, the autumn that I was seven, to a house which my mother had bought and put in order on East 61st Street, two blocks from Auntie Bye..." (Autobiography, p. 8) She then however discusses incongruously and without explanation her life in the house on 37th street with her grandmother Ludlow and her mother's sisters. Her father although not then living there, was a frequent visitor. | ||
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The 1932 Democratic party convention was held in Chicago. Eleanor and Franklin were not present, they were in Albany awaiting word that the party would choose Franklin to run for US President that year. Three ballots went and still there was no conclusive choice. Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman however '''were''' there and when a letter arrived from Eleanor expressing her profound unhappiness about the possibility of Franklin being '''chosen''', they showed it to Louis Howe. Promptly destroying it, he ordered them never to mention the contents of that letter to anyone. (Farber, p. 86) Eleanor's son-in-law [[Curtis Bean Dall]] who had married Anna, relates an interesting story about how "Missouri came in early" for Roosevelt, due presumably to Curtis' intervention. | The 1932 Democratic party convention was held in Chicago. Eleanor and Franklin were not present, they were in Albany awaiting word that the party would choose Franklin to run for US President that year. Three ballots went and still there was no conclusive choice. Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman however '''were''' there and when a letter arrived from Eleanor expressing her profound unhappiness about the possibility of Franklin being '''chosen''', they showed it to Louis Howe. Promptly destroying it, he ordered them never to mention the contents of that letter to anyone. (Farber, p. 86) Eleanor's son-in-law [[Curtis Bean Dall]] who had married Anna, relates an interesting story about how "Missouri came in early" for Roosevelt, due presumably to Curtis' intervention. | ||
− | Now the campaign began in earnest, with FDR, Eleanor and family on a cross-country train trip to shake hands and kiss babies. It was now that the relationship between Eleanor and [[Lorena Hickok]], a female journalist for AP, assigned to cover part of the Roosevelt story began to deepen. They had known each other, and of each other, in passing for several years, but never in close quarters. The confines of a long train-trip tend to make quick friends of acquaintances. | + | Franklin however was chosen, and flew to Chicago to accept the nomination. Now the campaign began in earnest, with FDR, Eleanor and family on a cross-country train trip to shake hands and kiss babies. It was now that the relationship between Eleanor and [[Lorena Hickok]], a female journalist for AP, assigned to cover part of the Roosevelt story began to deepen. They had known each other, and of each other, in passing for several years, but never in close quarters. The confines of a long train-trip tend to make quick friends of acquaintances. |
− | Another relationship was forming on that cross-country train as well. Mrs. Anna Dall, the married daughter of FDR and Eleanor, met and fell in-love with journalist John Boettiger, assigned by the ''Chicago Tribune''. | + | Another relationship was forming on that cross-country train as well. Mrs. Anna Dall, the married daughter of FDR and Eleanor, met and fell in-love with journalist John Boettiger, assigned by the ''Chicago Tribune''. In 1932, Franklin was handily elected US President and the family moved into the White House, in Washington, DC. Some months later, Anna Dall seperated from her husband Curtis, and moved into the White House with her parent and her two children. Anna would then obtain a Nevada divorce and in early 1935 marry Boettiger. The delay perhaps being primarily because the Roosevelt's did not two of their children divorcing so quickly. |
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− | In 1932, Franklin was handily elected US President and the family moved into the White House, in Washington, DC. | + | |
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− | [[Presidents of the United States]] | + | *[[100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century]] |
+ | *[[Presidents of the United States]] | ||
[[Category:Famous Women]] | [[Category:Famous Women]] | ||
[[Category:New York]] | [[Category:New York]] | ||
[[Category:Washington DC]] | [[Category:Washington DC]] | ||
+ | [[Category:GLBT]] |