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David</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#605.47.71">Oliver Roosevelt Diggs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorn-dorsett.html#506.75.59">Roosevelt F. Dorn</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gresham-griffey.html#137.48.85">Roosevelt Grier</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawkins.html#085.05.21">Charles Roosevelt Hawkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#464.77.15">Franklin D. Roosevelt Keesee</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kuhne-kurthy.html#853.32.26">Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeegan-mckenty.html#138.69.56">Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parsons.html#731.57.12">Roosevelt Parsons</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webb.html#547.18.40">Bernie Roosevelt Webb</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woods.html#078.32.71">Robert Roosevelt Woods</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roosevelt, Alice Lee See <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="098.91.94">Roosevelt, Ann</a> — of Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Democrat. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008 /committees.html">Platform Committee</a>, Democratic National Convention, 2008. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2008. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor See <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="907.08.53">Roosevelt, Anne B.</a> — of Villanova, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-lived.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/PA.html">1948</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="910.32.30">Roosevelt, Clinton</a> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1837. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="210.53.32">Roosevelt, Cornelius</a> — of Flint, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/GE-lived.html">Genesee County</a>, Mich. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/flint.html#3">Register of U.S. Land Office at Genesee, Michigan</a>, 1849-53. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="132.21.24">Roosevelt, Cornelius C.</a> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1802-03. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="901.26.03">Roosevelt, David B.</a> — of Jericho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>. Still living as of 1972. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="169.45.04">Roosevelt, Dorothy Kemp</a> (1898-1985) — also known as Dorothy K. Roosevelt; Dorothy Grant Kemp — of Michigan. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/10-25.html">October 25, 1898</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 17th District, 1942. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Birmingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-died.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/07-21.html">July 21, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 269 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-buried.html#cms08416">somewhere</a> in Oakland County, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Ulysses Grant Kemp and Frances (Polk) Kemp; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/">1925</a> to Gracie Hall Roosevelt (brother of <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8292847">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="111.45.68">Roosevelt, Edith</a> (1861-1948) — also known as Edith Kermit Carow — of Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Norwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/08-06.html">August 6, 1861</a>. Republican. First Lady of New York, 1899-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/second.html">Second Lady of the United States</a>, 1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1901-09. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/09-30.html">September 30, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 55 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-buried.html#cms01907">Youngs Memorial Cemetery</a>, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Charles Carow and Gertude Elizabeth (Tyler) Carow; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/12-02.html">December 2, 1886</a>, to <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> (brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; nephew of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>); step-mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>; mother of <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a>; great-grandmother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#118.12.55">Daniel Putnam Tyler</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5995">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32192">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="979.21.97">Roosevelt, Elbert C.</a> — of Pelham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pelham.html#2">Pelham, N.Y.</a>, 1897. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="632.73.38">Roosevelt, Eleanor</a> (1884-1962) — also known as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt — of Hyde Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/10-11.html">October 11, 1884</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1933-45; delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, 1945-53; member, United Nations Commission on Human Rights; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">columnist</a>; speaker, Democratic National Convention, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/speakers.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/speakers.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/speakers.html">1960</a>; member, President's Commission on the Status of Women, 1961-62. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Inducted, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/natl-womens-hof.html">National Women's Hall of Fame</a>, 1973. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/11-07.html">November 7, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 27 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-buried.html#cms02371">Roosevelt Home</a>, Hyde Park, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt and Anna (Hall) Roosevelt; sister of Gracie Hall Roosevelt (who married <a href="#169.45.04">Dorothy Kemp Roosevelt</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/03-17.html">March 17, 1905</a>, to <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>; mother of <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>, <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a>; niece of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; grandniece of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; great-grandniece of <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; second great-grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; third great-granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/467/000022401">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/896">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=18145">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a> — <a href="https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/eleanor-roosevelt/">National Women's Hall of Fame</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Eleanor Roosevelt: Hazel Rowley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374158576/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374158576&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage</a> — Maurine H. Beasley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700617272/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700617272&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="687.20.72">Roosevelt, Elliott</a> (1910-1990) — of Fort Worth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TT-lived.html">Tarrant County</a>, Tex.; Buford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/RB-lived.html">Rio Blanco County</a>, Colo.; Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla.; Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash.; Palm Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-lived.html">Riverside County</a>, Calif.; Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-lived.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/09-23.html">September 23, 1910</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TX.html">1940</a>; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">lavish entertainment</a> in Hollywood and Manhattan, many <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">paid escorts</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">paid hotel bills</a> provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for purchase by the U.S. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">military</a>; owned a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio station</a> in Texas; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CO.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/miamibeach.html">mayor of Miami Beach, Fla.</a>, 1965-69; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/FL.html">Democratic National Committee from Florida</a>, 1968; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/FL.html">1968</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/10-27.html">October 27, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 34 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>; brother of <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/01-16.html">January 16, 1932</a>, to Elizabeth Browning Donner; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/07-22.html">July 22, 1933</a>, to Ruth Josephine Googins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/12-03.html">December 3, 1944</a>, to Faye Margaret Emerson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/03-15.html">March 15, 1951</a>, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/11-03.html">November 3, 1960</a>, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead; grandnephew of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#643.57.11">Edward Hutchinson Robbins</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#539.37.12">Warren Delano Robbins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Monroe</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="031.08.97">Roosevelt, Ferdinand C.</a> — of Mankato, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/BE-lived.html">Blue Earth County</a>, Minn. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/mankato.html#2">Mankato, Minn.</a>, 1860-61. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/876/28.99.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Franklin D. Roosevelt"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="876.28.99">Roosevelt, Franklin Delano</a> (1882-1945) — also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt; "F.D.R." — of Hyde Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hyde Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/01-30.html">January 30, 1882</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/NY.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NY.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>; speaker, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">1944</a>; contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">legs were paralyzed</a> for the rest of his life; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1929-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February 15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#956.93.06">Anton J. Cermak</a> were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot at</a> by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-phi.html">Alpha Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Led the nation through the Depression and World War II. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Warm Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ME-died.html">Meriwether County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/04-12.html">April 12, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 72 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-buried.html#cms02371">Roosevelt Home</a>, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Federal Triangle</a>, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07283">West Potomac Park</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/03-17.html">March 17, 1905</a>, to <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> (niece of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Douglas Robinson</a>); father of <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt (1907-1991)</a>, <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a>; half-uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#643.57.11">Edward Hutchinson Robbins</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#539.37.12">Warren Delano Robbins</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saintgeorge-salliotte.html#520.64.42">Katharine Price Collier St. George</a>; first cousin once removed of Helen Lloyd Aspinwall (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shober-shorett.html#064.13.40">Francis Emanuel Shober</a>); first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Kortright</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html#121.55.32">William Phillips</a>); second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#713.08.78">Samuel Gager</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ross.html#796.70.90">Sulifand Sutherland Ross</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#462.32.81">Ulysses Simpson Grant</a>, <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott</a> and <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mchie-mcintire.html#089.80.30">Ross T. McIntire</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#077.09.20">Milton Lipson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howells-howey.html#213.78.22">W. W. Howes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barton.html#112.99.31">Bruce Barton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#559.40.43">Hamilton Fish, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin5.html#144.27.80">Joseph W. Martin, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rosenberger-rosenstein.html#647.24.89">Samuel I. Rosenman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuckerman-turnbull.html#799.89.22">Rexford G. Tugwell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moffat-molumby.html#982.18.80">Raymond Moley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berl-berrien.html#889.67.51">Adolf A. Berle</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen4.html#605.38.97">George E. Allen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#053.26.25">Lorence E. Asman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#492.99.30">Grenville T. Emmet</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#477.77.14">Eliot Janeway</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniels.html#778.76.23">Jonathan Daniels</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#500.80.04">Ralph Bellamy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kinnison-kipp.html#499.68.09">Wythe Leigh Kinsolving</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Franklin Delano Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Bridge</a> (opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/WA-names.html">Lubec, Maine</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NB-names.html">Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">borough</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-names.html">Roosevelt, New Jersey</a> (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — F. D. Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-airports.html">Airport</a>, on the Caribbean island of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EU-names.html">Sint Eustatius</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The F. D. Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-hospitals.html">Teaching Hospital</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LO-names.html">Banská Bystrica, Slovakia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garrettson-gartin.html#410.59.56">Frank Garrison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#464.77.15">Franklin D. Roosevelt Keesee</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appears</a> on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin).</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/franklin-delano-roosevelt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin D. Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/115/000024043">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740483">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/897">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4049">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871137801/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0871137801&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America</a> — Doris Kearns Goodwin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684804484/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684804484&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II</a> — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517202964/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0517202964&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">FDR : 1882-1945</a> — Bernard Bellush, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0404515851/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0404515851&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin Roosevelt as Governor of New York</a> — Robert H. Jackson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195168267/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195168267&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">That Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> — Jonas Klein, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0839710364/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0839710364&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Beloved Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello</a> — Conrad Black, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586481843/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1586481843&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom</a> — Charles Peters, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586481126/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1586481126&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World</a> — Steven Neal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060013761/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060013761&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Happy Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever</a> — H. W. Brands, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385519583/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385519583&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> — Hazel Rowley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374158576/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374158576&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage</a> — Alan Brinkley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199732027/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199732027&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> — Stanley Weintraub, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306821184/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0306821184&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life</a> — Karen Bornemann Spies, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766020096/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766020096&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Jim Powell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761501657/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0761501657&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression</a> — John T. Flynn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0930073274/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0930073274&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Roosevelt Myth</a> — Burton W. Folsom, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416592229/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1416592229&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt: Philip Roth, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618509283/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0618509283&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Plot Against America: A Novel</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1936</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="128.53.81">Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr.</a> (1914-1988) — also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Campobello Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NB-born.html">New Brunswick</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/08-17.html">August 17, 1914</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 20th District, 1949-55; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NY.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NY.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/NY.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1954; Liberal candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1966. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung-cancer.html">lung cancer</a>, in Poughkeepsie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-died.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1988/08-17.html">August 17, 1988</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-buried.html#cms02560">St. James Episcopal Churchyard</a>, Hyde Park, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>; brother of <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/06-30.html">June 30, 1937</a>, to Ethel du Pont (first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#855.24.36">Henry Algernon du Pont</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/08-31.html">August 31, 1949</a>, to Suzanne Perrin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/07-01.html">July 1, 1970</a>, to Felicia (Schiff) Warburg Sarnoff (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#835.49.90">Felix Moritz Warburg</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/05-06.html">May 6, 1977</a>, to Patricia Louise Oakes; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1984/">1984</a> to Linda McKay Stevenson Weicker; grandnephew of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#643.57.11">Edward Hutchinson Robbins</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; half-first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#539.37.12">Warren Delano Robbins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Monroe</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000425">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409390">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin Delano Roosevelt%2C Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/943/000205328">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=21064">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="907.06.43">Roosevelt, George Washington</a> (1844-1907) — also known as George W. Roosevelt — of Pennsylvania. Born in Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-born.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/02-14.html">February 14, 1844</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consular Agent in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AU-consuls.html ">Sydney</a>, as of 1877; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NZ-consuls.html ">Auckland</a>, 1877-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HE-consuls.html ">St. Helena</a>, 1879-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-consuls.html ">Matanzas</a>, 1880-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Bordeaux</a>, 1881-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-consuls.html ">Brussels</a>, 1889-1905; while attending a balloon ascension at the Place Guincane, Bordeaux, July 16, 1884, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot and wounded</a> by a French soldier; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-consuls.html ">Brussels</a>, as of 1906. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> in 1887 for action at Bull Run, Va., August 30, 1862, and at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; severely wounded and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost a leg</a>. Died in Brussels, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-died.html">Belgium</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/04-14.html">April 14, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 59 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Solomon Roosevelt and Elizabeth (Morris) Roosevelt; great-grandson of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7519827">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roosevelt, Helen See <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#000.74.40">Helen Roosevelt Robinson</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="644.67.75">Roosevelt, Isaac</a> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1777-86, 1788-92; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/capp.html">New York council of appointment</a>, 1785, 1791; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a> from New York County, 1788. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="161.25.01">Roosevelt, Jacob</a> — Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/capp.html">New York council of appointment</a>, 1778. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="644.11.03">Roosevelt, James</a> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1796-97. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="241.11.81">Roosevelt, James</a> (1907-1991) — also known as Jimmy Roosevelt — of Brookline, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass.; Beverly Hills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif.; Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/12-23.html">December 23, 1907</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance business</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/MA.html">1936</a>; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/CA.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/CA.html">1952</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/CA.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CA.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/CA.html">1964</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CA.html">Democratic National Committee from California</a>, 1948-52; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1950; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 26th District, 1955-65; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/losangeles.html">mayor of Los Angeles, Calif.</a>, 1965. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. Died, from complications of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/parkinsons.html">Parkinson's disease</a>, in Newport Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1991/08-13.html">August 13, 1991</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 233 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-buried.html#cms05200">Pacific View Memorial Park</a>, Newport Beach, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>; brother of <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/06-04.html">June 4, 1930</a>, to Betsey Maria Cushing (who later married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#088.33.60">John Hay Whitney</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/04-14.html">April 14, 1941</a>, to Romelle Theresa Schneider; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/07-02.html">July 2, 1956</a>, to Gladys Irene Owens; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1969/10-03.html">October 3, 1969</a>, to Mary Lena Winskill; grandnephew of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#643.57.11">Edward Hutchinson Robbins</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#539.37.12">Warren Delano Robbins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroe.html#092.05.28">Elizabeth Monroe</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goulden-gradison.html#724.26.22">Samuel Laurence Gouverneur</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000426">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409391">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/944/000205329">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740484">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=20564">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="348.32.68">Roosevelt, James, Jr.</a> — of Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass.; Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/MA.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MA.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MA.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MA.html">2008</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MA.html">Democratic National Committee from Massachusetts</a>, 2004-08. Still living as of 2008. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="589.17.33">Roosevelt, James I.</a> (1795-1875) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/12-14.html">December 14, 1795</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1835, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1841-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1859-61. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/04-05.html">April 5, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 112 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Jacobus Roosevelt and Maria (Van Schaack) Roosevelt; uncle of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; granduncle of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>, <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a>, <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#907.06.43">George Washington Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0078.html">Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia and Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0658.html">Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family</a> of Salisbury, North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000427">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409392">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3917">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roosevelt, Jimmy See <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roosevelt, Joe See <a href="#136.26.28">Joseph C. Roosevelt</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="136.26.28">Roosevelt, Joseph C.</a> (1900-1987) — also known as Joe Roosevelt — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/10-08.html">October 8, 1900</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance</a> business; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1933-36; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 21st District, 1937-38; defeated in primary, 1938, 1940, 1942; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">implicated</a> in the Michigan legislative <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribery</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> in 1944 as a go-between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">providing bribes</a> to legislators; granted <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">immunity from prosecution</a>, and testified against others. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/index.html">1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">about 86 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/08-24.html">August 24, 1926</a>, to Catherine Miller.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="279.56.72">Roosevelt, Nicholas, Jr.</a> (1758-1838) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y. Born in Lake George, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1758/10-06.html">October 6, 1758</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Warren County, 1833. Died in Johnsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-died.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/06-04.html">June 4, 1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 241 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nicholas J. Roosevelt and Elizabeth (Thurman) Roosevelt; married to Betsey English; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/">1793</a> to Margaret Cramer; great-grandfather of <a href="#907.06.43">George Washington Roosevelt</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a> and <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a> and <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>, <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>, <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0078.html">Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="684.62.52">Roosevelt, Nicholas</a> (1893-1982) — Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/06-12.html">June 12, 1893</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HU-diplomats.html ">Hungary</a>, 1930-33. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/index.html">1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">about 89 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/roosevelt-nicholas ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="795.95.53">Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell</a> (1829-1906) — also known as Robert B. Roosevelt — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/08-07.html">August 7, 1829</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 4th District, 1871-73; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-diplomats.html ">Netherlands</a>, 1888-89; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/NY.html">1892</a>. Died in Sayville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/06-14.html">June 14, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 311 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Cornelius Roosevelt and Margaret (Barnhill) Roosevelt; nephew of <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; uncle of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="#111.45.68">Edith Kermit Carow</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>, <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a>, <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>, <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a>, <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="#907.06.43">George Washington Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000428">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409393">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/roosevelt-robert-barnwell ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3918">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roosevelt, Susan See <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3514960088/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/741/57.28.jpg" width=70 height=116 border=0 alt="Theodore Roosevelt"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="741.57.28">Roosevelt, Theodore</a> (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, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/10-27.html">October 27, 1858</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 21st District, 1882-84; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/NY.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/NY.html">1900</a>; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1899-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/index.html">1916</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Christian Reformed</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Dutch</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-phi.html">Alpha Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot</a> 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/nobel-prize.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> in 1906; elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1950. Died in Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/01-06.html">January 6, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 71 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-buried.html#cms01907">Youngs Memorial Cemetery</a>, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt; brother of Anna L. Roosevelt (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#849.24.85">William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923)</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/10-27.html">October 27, 1880</a>, to Alice Hathaway Lee; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/12-02.html">December 2, 1886</a>, to <a href="#111.45.68">Edith Kermit Carow</a> (first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#118.12.55">Daniel Putnam Tyler</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Lee Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#643.30.15">Nicholas Longworth</a>) and <a href="#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a>; nephew of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; granduncle of <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>, <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a>, <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#385.97.08">William Floyd Weld</a>); great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#109.58.92">Martin Van Buren</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0078.html">Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pikiel-pinchot.html#329.78.78">Gifford Pinchot</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leader-leak.html#999.13.39">David J. Leahy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnes.html#561.86.35">William Barnes, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burcham-burdette.html#788.95.93">Oliver D. Burden</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/youngblood-yulee.html#275.97.24">William J. Youngs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corsentino-costas.html#715.37.07">George B. Cortelyou</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell6.html#467.68.28">Mason Mitchell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maclafferty-madar.html#376.04.87">Frederic MacMaster</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodell-goodrell.html#346.05.60">John Goodnow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockyer-loftus.html#328.12.29">William Loeb, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gard-gardlock.html#981.93.24">Asa Bird Gardiner</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Roosevelt counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/RO.html">Mont.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/RO.html">N.M.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">minor planet</a> (asteroid) 188693 Roosevelt (discovered 2005), is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#047.55.53">Theodore Bassett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeegan-mckenty.html#138.69.56">Theodore R. McKeldin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dalton.html#222.34.22">Ted Dalton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kuhne-kurthy.html#853.32.26">Theodore R. Kupferman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/britton.html#642.51.53">Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr.</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Personal motto: "Speak softly and carry a big stick."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000429">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409394">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/theodore-roosevelt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/430/000026352">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740485">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/898">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4068">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871137801/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0871137801&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America</a> — H. W. Brands, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465069592/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465069592&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">T.R : The Last Romantic</a> — Edmund Morris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394555090/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0394555090&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Theodore Rex</a> — Edmund Morris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375756787/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375756787&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt</a> — John Morton Blum, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674763025/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674763025&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Republican Roosevelt</a> — Richard D. White, Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0817313613/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0817313613&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Roosevelt the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895</a> — Frederick W. Marks III, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803281153/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0803281153&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Velvet on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt</a> — James Chace, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743203941/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743203941&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country</a> — Patricia O'Toole, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684864770/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684864770&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">When Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White House</a> — Candice Millard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385507968/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385507968&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey</a> — Lewis Einstein, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006AL2ZG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006AL2ZG&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Roosevelt : His Mind in Action</a> — Rick Marshall, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596981547/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1596981547&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bully!: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt: Illustrated with More Than 250 Vintage Political Cartoons</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, October 1901</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="639.27.54">Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.</a> (1887-1944) — of Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/09-13.html">September 13, 1887</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Nassau County 2nd District, 1920-21; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NY.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/NY.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/NY.html">1940</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1924; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Puerto Rico</a>, 1929-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PI/ofc/gov.html">Governor-General of the Philippine Islands</a>, 1932-33; general in the U.S. Army during World War II. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> for his actions that day; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/world-war-ii.html">died</a> a month later, of exhaustion and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Normandy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/07-12.html">July 12, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 303 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-buried.html#cms04709">Normandy American Cemetery</a>, Collevelle-sur-Mer, France; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-buried.html#cms01907">Youngs Memorial Cemetery</a>, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="#111.45.68">Edith Roosevelt</a>; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Lee Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#643.30.15">Nicholas Longworth</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/06-20.html">June 20, 1910</a>, to Eleanor Butler Alexander; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#385.97.08">William Floyd Weld</a>); grandnephew of <a href="#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>, <a href="#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a>, <a href="#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#118.12.55">Daniel Putnam Tyler</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2144">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <a name="056.83.58">Roosevelt, Theodore IV</a> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. 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