Eleanor Roosevelt
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#John Aspinwall Roosevelt (b. 1916) who married twice Anne Lindsay Clark and Irene Boyd McAlpin. | #John Aspinwall Roosevelt (b. 1916) who married twice Anne Lindsay Clark and Irene Boyd McAlpin. | ||
| − | The three eldest children were all born in New York City. Eleanor and Franklin lived on East 36th Street in "Murray Hill" a neighborhood of Manhattan. Franklin was finishing up his law | + | The three eldest children were all born in New York City. Eleanor and Franklin lived on East 36th Street in "Murray Hill" a neighborhood of Manhattan. Franklin was finishing up his law schooling and then started in the law trade. Franklin's Roosevelt relatives also had a summer place at Campobello, Maine and this is where their fourth child Franklin Jr was born. |
| − | About this time, Franklin made his political debut in the New York State Senate, and the family moved to Albany, the capital of New York. | + | About this time, Franklin made his political debut in the New York State Senate, and the family moved to Albany, the capital of New York. Shortly afterward, Franklin's support of US Presidential hopeful and then New Jersey governor [[Woodrow Wilson]] meant a rewarded Franklin was now Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the new Wilson administration. |
About 1915, Eleanor discovered that Franklin had had an affair with his secretary Lucy Mercer, and their own romatic relationship was said to have cooled or even ceased at that point. She offered him a divorce, but they did not. | About 1915, Eleanor discovered that Franklin had had an affair with his secretary Lucy Mercer, and their own romatic relationship was said to have cooled or even ceased at that point. She offered him a divorce, but they did not. | ||
