Eleanor Roosevelt Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlɨnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.A member of the Roosevelt and Livingston families, Eleanor had an unhappy childhood, suffering the deaths of both parents and one of her brothers at a young age. At 15, she attended Allenwood Academy in London, and was deeply influenced by its feminist headmistress Marie Souvestre. Returning to the U.S., she married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905. The Roosevelts' marriage was complicated from the beginning by Franklin's controlling mother, Sara, and after discovering Franklin's affair with Lucy Mercer in 1918, Eleanor resolved to seek fulfillment in a public life of her own. She persuaded Franklin to stay in politics following his partial paralysis from polio, and began to give speeches and campaign in his place. After Franklin's election as Governor of New York, Eleanor regularly made public appearances on his behalf. She also shaped the role of First Lady during her tenure and beyond.Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly her stance on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold press conferences, write a syndicated newspaper column, and speak at a national convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husband's policies. She launched an experimental community at Arthurdale, West Virginia, for the families of unemployed miners, later widely regarded as a failure. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees.Following her husband's death, Eleanor remained active in politics for the rest of her life. She pressed the US to join and support the United Nations and became one of its first delegates. She served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later she chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. By the time of her death, she was regarded as "one of the most esteemed women in the world" and "the object of almost universal respect". In 1999, she was ranked in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.
Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Delano, Jr., and John
Parents
Anna Hall Roosevelt, Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt
Siblings
Hall Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt Mann, Elliott Roosevelt, Jr.
Awards
United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights
Nominations
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Movies
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story, Women in Defense, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Star Sign
Libra
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[in response to criticism that her public activities strayed too far from her responsibilities as First Lady, 1940] Of course, women's place is in the home, but the home has to be protected, and to protect it you have to go out and fight the things that threaten it, such as social insecurity, and child labor and poverty and ignorance.
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Every day do something that scares you.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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[on choice] Somewhere along the line of our development we discover what we really are, and then we make our decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never live anyone else's life.
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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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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On work: When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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Women are like tea bags - you never know how strong they are until they get in hot water.
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Happiness isn't a goal; it's a by-product.
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No one can make you inferior without your consent.
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Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run, it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength stare it down.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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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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Marriage and the upbringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.
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Fact
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The Marion Anderson concert actually took place on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
She is the only United States First Lady to not change her name after marriage, as she and Franklin D. Roosevelt already shared the same surname. Hillary Clinton kept her maiden name during the first seven years of her marriage, but started using her husband's last name when he ran for Governor of Arkansas is 1982.
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Incurred the wrath of Southern conservatives during the Depression when she visited the South and discovered that local officials of the WPA (Works Progress Administration, an agency set up to provide government jobs such as highway, bridge and building construction for the unemployed) were deliberately excluding blacks from the program. Outraged, she informed her husband, who ordered an immediate cessation to the practice after firing several agency officials (many Southerners afterwards referred to blacks they saw working on government projects as "Eleanor's niggers"). She further alienated many in the South when she pushed both her husband and Congress to end official racial segregation in the armed forces (although that policy wasn't finally implemented until several years after her husband died).
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected, the Secret Service were not yet protecting the lives of the First Family. She was issued a gun for her own protection, and then they issued her a badge so she was legally allowed to carry the gun.
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Was given horrible medical advice, even for 1960s standards. When she first started feeling the affects of tuberculosis, she saw her doctors. They did the standard PPD test (which is still used today to diagnose TB). Even though she received a +PPD result (meaning she has or previously had TB), her doctors dismissed the findings and put her on steroids. She left the country for a goodwill tour of Europe. When she returned she was in worse health; the TB had taken over multiple organ systems. If she had been put on antibiotics that were available, she would have been cured. By giving her steroids her doctors compromised her immune system, and assisted the TB in becoming worse. Even if they had done nothing she would have been better off and had a better chance at survival. This was a huge medical blunder even for the standards of the day.
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Quit the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) because they wouldn't allow contralto Marian Anderson to perform in Constitution Hall - the only venue large enough to accommodate the audience that Ms. Anderson would draw - because she was African-American. Mrs. Roosevelt then made arrangements for Miss Anderson's concert to be performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. More than 75,000 people attended.
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