Eleanor Roosevelt

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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 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.
  
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==Volunteerism==
 
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.
 
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.
  

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