Eleanor Roosevelt
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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. | 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. 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 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, and the family moved again, this time to Washington, DC. |
| − | About 1915, Eleanor discovered that Franklin had had an affair with | + | About 1915, Eleanor discovered that Franklin had had an affair with her social 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. Eleanor devoted herself, during World War I to volunteer efforts which resulted in her becoming involved with the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union League and the women's division of the New York State Democratic Committee. |
Franklin became governor of [[New York]]. | Franklin became governor of [[New York]]. | ||
