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Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family of Salisbury, North Carolina

Note: This is just one of 1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

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  Daniel Roberdeau (1727-1795) — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in St. Christopher, 1727. Merchant; member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1756; Delegate to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1777-79; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. French and Scottish ancestry. Died in Winchester, Va., January 5, 1795 (age about 67 years). Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Isaac Roberdeau and Mary (Cunyngham) Roberdeau; married, October 3, 1761, to Mary Bostwick; married, December 2, 1778, to Jane Milligan; great-grandfather of Josephine May Wheat (who married Francis Edwin Shober); second great-grandfather of Francis Emanuel Shober.
  Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family of Salisbury, North Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Francis Edwin Shober (1831-1896) — also known as Francis E. Shober — of Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C. Born in Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., March 12, 1831. Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1860; U.S. Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1869-73; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1876. Slaveowner. Died in Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., May 29, 1896 (age 65 years, 78 days). Interment at Oakdale Cemetery, Salisbury, N.C.
  Relatives: Married to Josephine May Wheat (great-granddaughter of Daniel Roberdeau); father of Francis Emanuel Shober.
  Political family: Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family of Salisbury, North Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Francis Emanuel Shober (1860-1919) — also known as Frank E. Shober — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., October 24, 1860. Democrat. School teacher; minister; newspaper reporter; newspaper editor; U.S. Representative from New York 17th District, 1903-05; defeated, 1906. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., October 7, 1919 (age 58 years, 348 days). Interment at Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Francis Edwin Shober and Josephine May (Wheat) Shober; married, April 11, 1882, to Helen Lloyd Aspinwall (first cousin once removed of Franklin Delano Roosevelt); second great-grandson of Daniel Roberdeau.
  Political family: Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family of Salisbury, North Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (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.
  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 GarrisonFranklin D. Roosevelt Keesee
  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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