Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884 to 1962, was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 during her husband Franklin D Roosevelt's presidency. Roosevelt is also well known for her roles as diplomat and activist. As Franklin Roosevelt held a whole four terms in office, Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest serving First Lady. Roosevelt also remained active in politics for the remainder of her life after her husband's death in 1945. During her extensive career, Roosevelt campaigned for causes such as women's rights, the civil rights of African Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees, she wrote a daily newspaper column and a monthly magazine column, she hosted a weekly radio show, spoke at national party conventions and held various press conferences, and even gave speeches and appeared at campaign events in her husband's place when he was struck with a paralytic illness in 1921. Eleanor Roosevelt, born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, was born in 1884 in Manhattan, New York to socialites Anna Rebecca Hall and Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt. Through her father, she was a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was tutored privately from an early age and was sent to Allenswood Academy, a private finishing school in Wimbledon, England at the age of 15. Roosevelt returned to the United States to make her social debut after completing her formal education in 1902. That Summer, she met her future husband Franklin Roosevelt, her father's fifth cousin on a train to Tivoli, New York. The two began a secret romance and were married in 1905. From Roosevelt's outspokenness and efforts regarding various human rights causes, to her role as UN delegate in later, Roosevelt truly reshaped what it means to be a First Lady.