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Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt (December 26, 1888 – May 29, 1960) was an American philanthropist. She was the wife of General Theodore Roosevelt III, and a daughter-in-law of
Beverly W. Brannan, "Eleanor Butler Roosevelt (1889-1960): Biographical Essay"
The Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
On June 29, 1910, she married Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III, the eldest son of President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt Jr. and Edith Kermit Carow, in New York City at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church on 55th Street and Fifth Avenue (Manhattan). Ted was the only general officer to land in the first wave on
Library of Congress film clip
Eleanor Butler Roosevelt at a women in war work congress in Paris, 1918 {{DEFAULTSORT:Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler Alexander 1888 births 1960 deaths 19th-century American women philanthropists 19th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American photographers 20th-century American memoirists American women memoirists First ladies and gentlemen of Puerto Rico Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt Philanthropists from New York (state) Photographers from New York City American women's rights activists 20th-century American women photographers New York (state) Republicans
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T.R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York (state), New York politics, incl ...
, the 26th President of the United States
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.
Early life
Eleanor Butler Alexander was born on December 26, 1888, in New York City, the only daughter of Henry Addison Alexander, a prominentNew York
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lawyer, and Grace Green. She was a great-granddaughter of the late Theron Rudd Butler. Her great aunt was Eleanor Butler Sanders.
Career
Throughout her life, Roosevelt not only supported her husband's career but also proved a highly organized, socially conscious person in her own right. From July 1917 to December 1918, she was heavily involved in YMCA canteen work in France and was described by her fellow canteen worker Marian Baldwin as "working like a horse." She helped improve the conditions of Puerto Rican women while her husband was governor of the island (1929–31); she organized the first American women's committee for China Relief (1937); and she directed the American Red Cross Club in England (1942). Roosevelt received citations and commendations from, among others, the French government, Gen. John J. Pershing, and the U.S. War Department. She also wrote an account of her life in her memoirs, ''Day Before Yesterday.''Photography
Roosevelt was also a keen photographer. In 1986, her daughter Grace presented 25 of her albums to theLibrary of Congress
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together with some 5,000 of her own photographs, including images of presidents and international dignitaries. In later life, Roosevelt and Grace studied with photographer J. Ghislain Lootens. She used a Voigtländer Superb from 1935, developing her own film and making her own prints. Her travel photographs of Europe, Mexico and Asia are of a particularly high quality.The Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
Personal life
On June 29, 1910, she married Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III, the eldest son of President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt Jr. and Edith Kermit Carow, in New York City at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church on 55th Street and Fifth Avenue (Manhattan). Ted was the only general officer to land in the first wave on D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as ...
and was awarded the Medal of Honor
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. Ted and Eleanor had four children:
* Grace Green Roosevelt McMillan (1911–1994)
* Theodore Roosevelt IV (1914–2001)
* Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt III (1915–1991)
* Quentin Roosevelt II (1919–1948)
She died on May 29, 1960, at Oyster Bay, Nassau Co., Long Island, NY, sixteen years after her husband, who had died of a heart attack shortly after the Invasion of Normandy
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 ( D-Day) with the ...
(1944).
See also
* Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmen's ClubNotes
External links
*Library of Congress film clip
Eleanor Butler Roosevelt at a women in war work congress in Paris, 1918 {{DEFAULTSORT:Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler Alexander 1888 births 1960 deaths 19th-century American women philanthropists 19th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American photographers 20th-century American memoirists American women memoirists First ladies and gentlemen of Puerto Rico Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt Philanthropists from New York (state) Photographers from New York City American women's rights activists 20th-century American women photographers New York (state) Republicans