| ROOSEVELT (Soundex
R214)
— See also
CREVELT,
DEROOS,
LINDROOS,
MILOSEVICH,
NIEVELT,
PROOS,
RADOSEVICH,
ROOS,
ROOSA,
ROOSE,
ROSEVEAR,
ROSEVELT,
ROUNSEVELLE,
TROOST.
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| |  ROOSEVELT:
See also
Theodore
Roosevelt Bassett —
Theodore
Roosevelt Britton Jr. —
Roosevelt
Coats —
William
Sheffield Cowles —
Theodore
Roosevelt Dalton —
Roosevelt
St. C. David —
Oliver
Roosevelt Diggs —
Roosevelt
F. Dorn —
Roosevelt
Grier —
Charles
Roosevelt Hawkins —
Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee —
Theodore
Roosevelt Kupferman —
Alice
Roosevelt Longworth —
Theodore
Roosevelt McKeldin —
Roosevelt
Parsons —
Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson —
Helen
Roosevelt Robinson —
Bernie
Roosevelt Webb —
Susan
Roosevelt Weld —
Robert
Roosevelt Woods |
| | Roosevelt,
Alice Lee See Alice
Roosevelt Longworth |
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Roosevelt, Ann —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Democrat. Member, Platform Committee, Democratic National
Convention, 2008.
Female.
Still living as of 2008.
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| | Roosevelt, Anna
Eleanor See Eleanor
Roosevelt |
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Roosevelt, Anne B. —
of Villanova, Delaware
County, Pa.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1948.
Female.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Clinton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1837.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Cornelius —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Whig. Register
of U.S. Land Office at Genesee, Michigan, 1849-53.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Cornelius C. —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1802-03.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, David B. —
of Jericho, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1972.
Still living as of 1972.
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Roosevelt, Dorothy Kemp
(1898-1985) —
also known as Dorothy K. Roosevelt; Dorothy Grant
Kemp —
of Michigan.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
25, 1898.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 17th District, 1942.
Female.
Died in Birmingham, Oakland
County, Mich., July 21,
1985 (age 86 years, 269
days).
Interment somewhere
in Oakland County, Mich.
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Roosevelt, Edith
(1861-1948) —
also known as Edith Kermit Carow —
of Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., August
6, 1861.
Republican. First Lady of New York, 1899-1900; Second Lady
of the United States, 1901; First Lady
of the United States, 1901-09.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
30, 1948 (age 87 years, 55
days).
Interment at Youngs
Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
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Roosevelt, Elbert C. —
of Pelham, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Postmaster at Pelham,
N.Y., 1897.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
(1884-1962) —
also known as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
11, 1884.
Democrat. First Lady
of the United States, 1933-45; delegate to the United Nations
General Assembly, 1945-53; member, United Nations Commission on Human
Rights; newspaper
columnist;
speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1952,
1956,
1960;
member, President's Commission on the Status of Women, 1961-62.
Female.
Member, League of Women
Voters; NAACP.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1973.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
7, 1962 (age 78 years, 27
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Roosevelt, Elliott
(1910-1990) —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.; Buford, Rio Blanco
County, Colo.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
23, 1910.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; investigated
and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over lavish
entertainment in Hollywood and Manhattan, many paid
escorts, and paid hotel
bills provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to
persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for
purchase by the U.S. military;
owned a radio
station in Texas; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Colorado, 1960;
mayor
of Miami Beach, Fla., 1965-69; member of Democratic
National Committee from Florida, 1968; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1968.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz., October
27, 1990 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt; brother of James Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; married, January
16, 1932, to Elizabeth Browning Donner; married, July 22,
1933, to Ruth Josephine Googins; married, December
3, 1944, to Faye Margaret Emerson; married, March
15, 1951, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross; married, November
3, 1960, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead; grandnephew of Theodore Roosevelt and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; great-grandnephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; second
great-grandnephew of James I. Roosevelt;
third great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; third great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; fourth great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin once removed of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, Warren
Delano Robbins, Corinne
Robinson Alsop, Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin seven times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin once removed of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr., Philip
DePeyster and Jabez
Williams Huntington. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Roosevelt, Ferdinand C. —
of Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn.
Democrat. Postmaster at Mankato,
Minn., 1860-61.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
(1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1944;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange;
Knights
of Pythias.
Led the nation through the Depression and World War II.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April
12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married,
March
17, 1905, to Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin
of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); father of James Roosevelt
(1907-1991), Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen
Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis
Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth
Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married
William
Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez
Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington, Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Samuel
Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster and James I. Roosevelt; third
cousin thrice removed of Sulifand
Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert Barnwell
Roosevelt, Roger
Wolcott and Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet — Eliot
Janeway — Jonathan
Daniels — Ralph
Bellamy — Wythe
Leigh Kinsolving |
| | | The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge
(opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec,
Maine and Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for
him. — The borough
of Roosevelt,
New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for
him. — F. D. Roosevelt Airport,
on the Caribbean island of Sint
Eustatius, is named for
him. — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching
Hospital, in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Frank
Garrison
— Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W.
Brands, Traitor
to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan
Brinkley, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young
Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and
Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New
Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr.
(1914-1988) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Campobello Island, New
Brunswick, August
17, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1949-55; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1954; Liberal candidate for Governor of
New York, 1966.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
17, 1988 (age 74 years, 0
days).
Interment at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt; brother of James Roosevelt and Elliott Roosevelt; married, June 30,
1937, to Ethel du Pont (first cousin twice removed of Henry
Algernon du Pont); married, August
31, 1949, to Suzanne Perrin; married, July 1,
1970, to Felicia (Schiff) Warburg Sarnoff (granddaughter of Felix
Moritz Warburg); married, May 6,
1977, to Patricia Louise Oakes; married 1984 to Linda
McKay Stevenson Weicker; grandnephew of Theodore
Roosevelt and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; great-grandnephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; second
great-grandnephew of James I. Roosevelt;
third great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; third great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; fourth great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; half-first cousin of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; first cousin once removed of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, Warren
Delano Robbins, Corinne
Robinson Alsop, Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin seven times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin once removed of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr., Philip
DePeyster and Jabez
Williams Huntington. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Roosevelt, George Washington
(1844-1907) —
also known as George W. Roosevelt —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Chester, Delaware
County, Pa., February
14, 1844.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consular Agent in
Sydney, as of 1877; U.S. Consul in Auckland, 1877-79; St. Helena, 1879-80; Matanzas, 1880-81; Bordeaux, 1881-89; Brussels, 1889-1905; while attending a balloon ascension at the
Place Guincane, Bordeaux, July 16, 1884, he was shot and
wounded by a French soldier; U.S. Consul General in Brussels, as of 1906.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1887 for action at Bull Run, Va., August 30, 1862,
and at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; severely wounded and lost a
leg.
Died in Brussels, Belgium,
April
14, 1907 (age 63 years, 59
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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| | Roosevelt,
Helen See Helen
Roosevelt Robinson |
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Roosevelt, Isaac —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1777-86, 1788-92; member of New York
council of appointment, 1785, 1791; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Jacob —
Member of New York
council of appointment, 1778.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, James —
of New
York County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1796-97.
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, James
(1907-1991) —
also known as Jimmy Roosevelt —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
23, 1907.
Democrat. Insurance
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1936;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1948,
1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1948-52; candidate for Governor of
California, 1950; U.S.
Representative from California 26th District, 1955-65; candidate
for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from complications of a stroke
and Parkinson's
disease, in Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif., August
13, 1991 (age 83 years, 233
days).
Interment at Pacific
View Memorial Park, Newport Beach, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt; brother of Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; married, June 4,
1930, to Betsey Maria Cushing (who later married John
Hay Whitney); married, April
14, 1941, to Romelle Theresa Schneider; married, July 2,
1956, to Gladys Irene Owens; married, October
3, 1969, to Mary Lena Winskill; grandnephew of Theodore Roosevelt and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; great-grandnephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; second
great-grandnephew of James I. Roosevelt;
third great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; third great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; fourth great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin once removed of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, Warren
Delano Robbins, Corinne
Robinson Alsop, Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin seven times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin once removed of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr., Philip
DePeyster and Jabez
Williams Huntington. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Roosevelt, James, Jr. —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1980,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008
(member, Credentials
Committee); member of Democratic
National Committee from Massachusetts, 2004-08.
Still living as of 2008.
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Roosevelt, James I.
(1795-1875) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
14, 1795.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1835, 1840; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1841-43; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1859-61.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1875 (age 79 years, 112
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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| | Roosevelt,
Jimmy See James
Roosevelt |
| | Roosevelt,
Joe See Joseph C.
Roosevelt |
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Roosevelt, Joseph C.
(1900-1987) —
also known as Joe Roosevelt —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
8, 1900.
Democrat. Real
estate and insurance
business; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1933-36; member of Michigan
state senate 21st District, 1937-38; defeated in primary, 1938,
1940, 1942; implicated
in the Michigan legislative bribery
scandal
in 1944 as a go-between providing
bribes to legislators; granted immunity
from prosecution, and testified against others.
Died in 1987
(age about
86 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Nicholas, Jr.
(1758-1838) —
of Warren
County, N.Y.
Born in Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., October
6, 1758.
Member of New York
state assembly from Warren County, 1833.
Died in Johnsburg, Warren
County, N.Y., June 4,
1838 (age 79 years, 241
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Nicholas
(1893-1982) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 12,
1893.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Minister to Hungary, 1930-33.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in 1982
(age about
89 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell
(1829-1906) —
also known as Robert B. Roosevelt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
7, 1829.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1871-73; U.S. Minister
to Netherlands, 1888-89; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1892.
Died in Sayville, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 14,
1906 (age 76 years, 311
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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| | Roosevelt,
Susan See Susan
Roosevelt Weld |
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Roosevelt, Theodore
(1858-1919) —
also known as "T.R."; "Teddy";
"The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan
Hill"; "The Rough Rider";
"Trust-Buster"; "The Happy
Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1858.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1882-84;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884,
1900;
Republican candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
New York, 1899-1901; Vice
President of the United States, 1901; President
of the United States, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916.
Christian
Reformed; later Episcopalian.
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Moose;
Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi; Union
League.
Received the Medal
of Honor for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle
there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee,
Wis., on October 14, 1912, was shot
in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his
speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention.
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1906; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
6, 1919 (age 60 years, 71
days).
Interment at Youngs
Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt; brother of
Anna L. Roosevelt (who married William
Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923)) and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; married, October
27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee; married, December
2, 1886, to Edith Kermit Carow (first
cousin once removed of Daniel
Putnam Tyler); father of Alice
Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas
Longworth) and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.;
nephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; uncle
of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt (who
married Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1882-1945)), Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); grandnephew of James I. Roosevelt; granduncle of James Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
and John
deKoven Alsop; great-grandfather of Susan
Roosevelt (who married William
Floyd Weld); great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; second great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; second cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.; third cousin twice
removed of Martin
Van Buren; fourth cousin once removed of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1882-1945). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Gifford
Pinchot — David
J. Leahy — William
Barnes, Jr. — Oliver
D. Burden — William
J. Youngs — George
B. Cortelyou — Mason
Mitchell — Frederic
MacMaster — John
Goodnow — William
Loeb, Jr. — Asa
Bird Gardiner |
| | | Roosevelt counties in Mont. and N.M. are
named for him. |
| | | The minor
planet (asteroid) 188693 Roosevelt (discovered 2005), is
named
for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Theodore
Bassett
— Theodore
R. McKeldin
— Ted
Dalton
— Theodore
R. Kupferman
— Theodore
Roosevelt Britton, Jr.
|
| | | Personal motto: "Speak softly and carry
a big stick." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James
MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — H. W. Brands, T.R
: The Last Romantic — Edmund Morris, Theodore
Rex — Edmund Morris, The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt — John Morton Blum, The
Republican Roosevelt — Richard D. White, Jr., Roosevelt
the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner,
1889-1895 — Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet
on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt — James
Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Patricia O'Toole, When
Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White
House — Candice Millard, The
River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest
Journey — Lewis Einstein, Roosevelt
: His Mind in Action — Rick Marshall, Bully!:
The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt: Illustrated with More Than
250 Vintage Political Cartoons |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.
(1887-1944) —
of Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
13, 1887.
Republican. Farmer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1920-21; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924,
1928,
1940;
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1924; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1929-32; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1932-33; general in the U.S. Army
during World War II.
Member, American
Legion.
Principal founder of the American Legion in 1919.
Participated in the invasion of Nazi-occupied France, on D-Day, June
6, 1944, and received a posthumous Medal
of Honor for his actions that day; died
a month later, of exhaustion and heart
failure, in Normandy, France,
July
12, 1944 (age 56 years, 303
days).
Interment at Normandy
American Cemetery, Collevelle-sur-Mer, France; cenotaph at Youngs
Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
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Roosevelt, Theodore IV —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
2008.
Still living as of 2008.
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