Eleanor Roosevelt

Former first lady Miss Eleanor Roosevelt.

As wife of the 32nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt challenged and transformed the historically ceremonial, behind-the-scenes First Lady role. She increased her public presence by...

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She became an orphan at 8. But when her mother was alive, she nicknamed Eleanor “granny” for having an old fashioned personality. And Eleanor loved field hockey. So much so that as she reflected back…

Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt and first lady of the United States from 1933 until 1945, becoming a United Nations diplomat and a major political figure in her own right. She was born on October 11, 1884, in New York, the daughter of Elliott and Anna Hall Roosevelt and niece of Theodore Roosevelt, who became the 26th president of the United States. Both her parents died when she was young—her mother when she was eight and her father when she…

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Eleanor Roosevelt

I watched Key Burn’s documentary, The Roosevelts, during the Holidays. It has seven episodes of approximate 2 hours each one of them. You must be wondering, how is it possible for a mother and a member of the professional world to have so much time to spare? Well, I don’t. What happened is that I …