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Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role. Widowed in 1945, she served as a United States delegate to the United Nations General…
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Born 11 October 1884 · Died 7 November 1962 · Q83396
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2026· 19 entries
MaxPreps: Eleanor Roosevelt Girls Varsity Volleyball @ DuVal
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Puente de Mando: A Maiden Voyage Aboard the Catamaran “Eleanor Roosevelt”
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Bucks County Beacon: A New Mural Reminds Students at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary of Their Value
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MARCA: Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady: "Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done'"
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parade.com: 104 Years Ago, People—Including Eleanor Roosevelt—Put Their Babies in Hanging Cages Outside Their Apartment Windows To Get Fresh Air
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MaxPreps: Eleanor Roosevelt Boys Varsity Basketball @ Wise
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MaxPreps: Eleanor Roosevelt Volleyball Roster (2026-27)
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My Edmonds News: ‘Coffee With Eleanor’ to feature First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt portrayal Sept. 25
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MaxPreps: Eleanor Roosevelt Boys JV Soccer @ Century
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NFHS Network: Team Highlights: Varsity Football Palmdale High School vs. Eleanor Roosevelt High School - Palmdale
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NFHS Network: Game Recap: Varsity Football Palmdale High School vs. Eleanor Roosevelt High School
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OkDiario: Eleanor Roosevelt y la frase que sigue inspirando: «El futuro pertenece a aquellos que creen en la belleza ...
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“On the family, we need two or three eye-catching initiatives that are entirely conventional in terms of their attitude to the family.”
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“would be different if we had too large a proportion of Jewish children.”
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“I know my own mind, and known it for a long time, and know that I could never think otherwise.”
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“s prospects in life were not totally dependent on physical beauty:”
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: The Depression-Era Dessert Eleanor Roosevelt Loved With A Passion
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2023· 2 entries
People: Mom Goes Viral for Documenting Daughter's Growing Eleanor Roosevelt Obsession After School Project
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New York Post: My daughter is obsessed with Eleanor Roosevelt — she even dresses like her
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2022· 2 entries
Publishers Weekly: Books by Eleanor Roosevelt and Complete Book Reviews
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PBS: Eleanor Roosevelt and Race
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2021· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Eleanor Roosevelt once said U.S. Marines have "the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals," or words to that effect.” Unproven.
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Yahoo: Eleanor Roosevelt’s granddaughter on what the first lady was like outside the spotlight
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CNN: Eleanor Roosevelt is the latest historical figure to get the Barbie treatment
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People: Mattel Reveals New Eleanor Roosevelt Barbie Doll Ahead of International Women's Day
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2020· 2 entries
CNN: Eleanor Roosevelt: Six quotes to live by
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Snopes rated the claim “A quotation attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt about the world 'liberal' is authentic and accurate.” Correct Attribution.
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2018· 2 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt
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New York Post: Eleanor Roosevelt’s final home is on the market for $20M
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2016· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A video shows Bill Clinton saying that his wife Hillary Clinton "communed" with the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt.” Mostly True.
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Snopes rated the claim “A video shows Bill Clinton saying that his wife Hillary Clinton "communed" with the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt.” Mostly True.
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2012· 2 entries
“From a speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California, quoted in The Event Makers I’ve Known (2012) by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161. She is described as being in her late 70s, so c. 1960–1962”
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“A snub” defined the first lady, “is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior. To do so, he has to find someone who can be made to feel inferior.” - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/30/no-one-inferior/”
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1999· 1 entry
Roosevelt was ranked ninth in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century, and was found to rank as the most admired woman in thirteen different years between 1948 and 1961 in Gallup's
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1992· 1 entry
Roosevelt biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook argued that the relationship was in fact romantic, generating national attention
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1983· 1 entry
“You learn by living - Página 29, Eleanor Roosevelt - Westminster John Knox Press, 1983, ISBN 0664244947, 9780664244941 - 211 páginas”
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1980· 1 entry
But concluded that the lovestruck phrasing was simply an "unusually belated schoolgirl crush" and warned historians not to be misled
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1977· 1 entry
Roosevelt's cottage at Val-Kill and its surrounding property of 181 acres (0
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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The biography also contains valuable insights into Franklin's run for vice president, his rise to the governorship of New York, and his capture of the presidency in 1932, particularly with the help of Louis Howe
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights (1968).
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1962· 29 entries
Died 1962-11-07.
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Also wrote an advice column, If You Ask Me, first published in Ladies Home Journal and then later in McCall's
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“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”
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“Understanding is a two-way street.”
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“Opis: matka Eleanor – tak zwała swą córkę Eleanor, faworyzując swoich synów.”
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“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
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“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
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“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
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“You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.”
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“I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”
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“If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.”
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“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, beautiful old people are works of art.”
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“O único homem que jamais erra é aquele que nunca faz nada.”
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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
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“US-amerikanische Politikerin und Journalistin”
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“Después de todo, ¿dónde comienzan los derechos humanos? En los lugares pequeños, cerca de casa». [Where after all, do human rights begin? In small places, close to home].”
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“Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!”
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“El futuro pertenece a quienes creen en la belleza de sus sueños». [The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams].”
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“La filosofia personale di ognuno non si esprime al meglio attraverso le parole; è espressa nelle scelte che si fa. Nel lungo periodo, modelliamo le nostre vite e modelliamo noi stessi. È un processo continuo fino alla morte; e le scelte che facciamo sono in definitiva una nostra responsabilità.”
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“Ganas fuerza, coraje y confianza con cada experiencia en la que realmente te detienes a mirar al miedo a la cara». [You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face].”
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“Si dedica tanta attenzione ai peccati aggressivi, come la violenza, la crudeltà e l'avarizia, con tutte le loro tragiche conseguenze, che scarsa attenzione rimane per i peccati passivi, come l'apatia e la pigrizia, che alla lunga possono avere effetti ancor più rovinosi.”
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“La comprensión es una calle de doble sentido». [Understanding is a two-way street].”
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“[Sul Diario di Anna Frank] Uno dei commenti più saggi e commoventi sulla guerra e sulle sue conseguenza per le persone che abbia mai letto.”
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“La creatividad siempre significa hacer lo desconocido». [Creativity always means the doing of the unfamiliar].”
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“Lo más importante en cualquier relación no es lo que obtienes sino lo que das». [The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give].”
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“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
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“No creo que la guerra sea la mejor solución. Nadie ganó la última guerra y nadie ganará la próxima guerra». [I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
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“Niemand kann Dir ein Minderwertigkeitsgefühl aufzwingen ohne Deine Bereitschaft dazu." - Übersetzung: Wikiquote”
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1960· 4 entries
Awarded Gandhi Peace Award (1960).
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“Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix”
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“Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xvi; the last line was originally used in the initial edition of her autobiography: This Is My Story (1937)”
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“The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156”
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1959· 1 entry
Roosevelt began hosting Prospects of Mankind, a monthly talk show on National Educational Television, a precursor of PBS
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Nansen Refugee Award (1954).
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Deshikottam (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
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1950· 1 entry
Rented suites at the Park Sheraton Hotel (202 West 56th Street)
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1949· 1 entry
CBS hired her for their 1949 televised Baking Contest Awards, where she stood alongside Philip and John S Pillsbury, Arthur Godfrey, and Art Linkletter as she handed out the $70,000 in cash prizes and promoted General El
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1948· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht (1948).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon (1948).
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Was given a standing ovation by the assembly upon their adoption of the declaration
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1947· 1 entry
Attended the National Conference on the German Problem in New York, which she had helped organize
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1945· 5 entries
After suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia
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Served as a United States delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining international support for the Universal Declaration of Human Righ
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Career landmark: United Nations General Assembly (1945–1952).
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Roosevelt pressed the United States to join and support the United Nations and became its first delegate to the committee on Human Rights
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“On April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman received an urgent summons from the White House. When he arrived, Eleanor Roosevelt told him, “The President is dead.” Truman asked, “Is there anything I can do for you?” Mrs. Roosevelt responded, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”
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1943· 1 entry
Randolph had launched a personal campaign for free speech in Memphis in response to Crump's use of strong-arm and political pressure tactics to drive two prominent local black Republicans, J
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1942· 2 entries
Urged women of all social backgrounds to learn trades, saying: "if I were of a debutante age I would go into a factory–any factory where I could learn a skill and be useful
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Roosevelt worked with activist Pauli Murray to persuade Franklin to appeal on behalf of sharecropper Odell Waller, convicted of killing a white farmer during a fight; though Franklin sent a letter to Virginia Governor Co
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1941· 3 entries
Roosevelt spoke out against Japanese-American prejudice, warning against the "great hysteria against minority groups
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Co-chaired the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) with New York City Mayor Fiorello H
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The short film Women in Defense, written by Roosevelt, was released
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1940· 5 entries
Germany invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, marking the end of the relatively conflict-free "Phoney War" phase of World War II
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Members of the AYC, as guests of Roosevelt in her capacity as first lady, attended a picnic on the White House lawn where they were addressed by Franklin from the South Portico
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Despite Roosevelt's publication of her reasons "Why I still believe in the Youth Congress," the American Youth Congress was disbanded
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Became the first to speak at a national party convention
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First in the short film Hobby Lobby, which The New Yorker quipped was "Mrs
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1939· 3 entries
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)”
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Roosevelt resigned from the group in protest and helped arrange another concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
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The Dies Committee subpoenaed leaders of the AYC, who, in addition to serving the AYC, also were members of the Young Communist League
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1938· 1 entry
At which time Roosevelt converted the shop buildings into a cottage at Val-Kill, that eventually became her permanent residence after Franklin died in 1945
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1937· 2 entries
Roosevelt visited Westmoreland Homesteads to mark the arrival of the community's final homesteader
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Began writing her autobiography, all volumes of which were compiled into The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt in 1961 (Harper & Brothers, ISBN 0-306-80476-X)
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1936· 3 entries
As another presidential election approached
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“from "My Day" (January 8, 1936)”
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Became aware of conditions at the National Training School for Girls, a predominantly Black reform school once located in the Palisades neighborhood of Washington, D
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1935· 3 entries
Roosevelt continued to host programs aimed at the female audience, including one called "It's A Woman's World
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“From article "In Defense of Curiosity" appearing in The Saturday Evening Post 208 (August 24, 1935); 8-9, 64-66.”
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That focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25
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1934· 2 entries
When she and Franklin visited the county and developed it as a test site for families
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To Roosevelt's specifications, this time with "every modern convenience", including indoor plumbing and central steam heat
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1933· 4 entries
At Hickok's urging, Roosevelt visited the families of homeless miners in Morgantown, West Virginia, who had been blacklisted following union activities
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Career landmark: First Lady of the United States (1933–1945).
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After she became first lady, a new hybrid tea rose was named after her (Rosa x hybrida "Mrs
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“In a letter to Lorena Hickok, March 7, 1933”
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1932· 1 entry
As she wrote articles for popular movie fan magazines such as Modern Screen and Photoplay and engaged readers on important issues with stories like Democracy on the Screen, Why We Roosevelts are Movie Fans, and How the M
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1928· 1 entry
And throughout the remainder of Franklin's political career, Roosevelt regularly made public appearances on his behalf; and as first lady, while her husband served as president, she greatly influenced the present scope a
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1927· 2 entries
Roosevelt established Val-Kill Industries with Cook, Dickerman, and Caroline O'Day, three friends she met through her activities in the Women's Division of the New York State Democratic Party
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Roosevelt joined friends Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook in buying the Todhunter School for Girls, a finishing school which also offered college preparatory courses, in New York City
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1924· 1 entry
Eleanor campaigned for Democrat Alfred E
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1921· 1 entry
Roosevelt began serving as a stand-in for her incapacitated husband, making public appearances on his behalf, often carefully coached by Louis Howe
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1918· 1 entry
“Opis: o odkryciu przez Eleanor romansu Franklina D. Roosevelta z jego sekretarką Lucy Mercer we 1918.”
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1912· 1 entry
Married the playwright and novelist David Gray in 1914 in a small ceremony attended only by Eleanor and the Roosevelt family lawyer, John M
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1904· 1 entry
Hoping that a separation would squelch the romance, but Franklin remained determined
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1902· 2 entries
Studied at Allenswood Boarding Academy (1899–1902).
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Roosevelt completed her formal education and returned to the United States; she was presented at a debutante ball at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on December 14
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1894· 1 entry
After jumping from a window during a fit of delirium tremens
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1887· 1 entry
The two-year-old Roosevelt was on board the SS Britannic with her father, mother and aunt Tissie, when it collided with White Star Liner SS Celtic
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1884· 2 entries
Born 1884-10-11.
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In Manhattan, New York City, to socialites Anna Rebecca Hall and Elliott Roosevelt
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