ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City.

FAMILY

• Her father was Elliot Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's brother
• Her mother was Anna Hall, a member of the livingston family
• She had 1 sister and 1 brother
• She married Franklin D. Roosevelt and had 5 children.

EDUCATION

• Eleanor's parents died when she was 8 years old
• She went to go live with her grandma and was tutored at home until 1899
• She then went to a school for girls called Allenswood School, near London, England
• She went there from 1899-1902

OCCUPATION

• She was a teacher at Todhunter School for Girls in NYC
• She was the Co-Founder of Vall-Kill industries lecturer
• Writer (including "My Day", the newspaper column)
• U.S. Delegate to United Nations General Assembly Chairman
• Human rights commission member of many educational, humanitarian, and political organizations

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• She volunteered for the Red Cross and Navy Department in WWI
• Major part in the presidency of F.D.R.
• She traveled around the nation, observing many things and reporting the observations to the President
• Became advocate of rights and needs of the poor, minorities, and disadvantaged
• During the war, she visited England and the South Pacific to foster good will among the Allies

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• Because she was the First Lady, she was able to travel and make a difference with her speeches
• She was the first, First Lady to hold her own press confrence, in 1933
• She also wrote "My Day" in a newspaper column everyday

FACTS

• After her husband died, Harry Truman became president. Eleanor became very close friends with him.
• She was 5ft 10 inches, had blue eyes and brown hair
• Her father was the younger brother of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Eleanor Roosevelt died on November 7, 1962 in New York City due to tuberculosis.

QUOTES

• "The future belongs to those who belive in their future."
• "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people."
• "If life seemed particularly hard, all we had to do was to say how much better it used to
• ... be, and how dreadful it was to be born in a generation that had to endure all the modern
• ... horrors."