One of the most influential First Ladies in United States history, Eleanor Roosevelt stood beside her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while blazing her own path as a consistent champion of civil rights, woman's voting rights and human rights causes. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker, working to enhance the status of working women.
Eleanor Roosevelt Background and Profiles
Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline
1884: born on October 11.
1903: Engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, joins the National Consumers' League.
1905: Marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1906: Gives birth to daughter Anna.
1907: Gives birth to son James.
1909: Gives birth to son Franklin, Jr. He dies of influenza the same year.
1910: Gives birth to son Elliot.
1912: Attends first Democratic Party convention.
1914: Gives birth to a son, also named Franklin, Jr.
1916: Gives birth to son to John.
1918: Works with the Red Cross and Navy Department.
1918: Learns of her husband's affair.
1920: Joins League of Women Voters.
1921: Nurses FDR after he is stricken with polio.
1928: Named the director of Bureau of Women's Activities of the DNC.
1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected as the 32nd President of the United States.
1933: Becomes the first president's wife to hold a press conference.
1934: Arranges a meeting between FDR and NAACP leader Walter White.
1935: Starts publishing her syndicated column, "My Day".
1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies and Eleanor returns to private life.
1945: Becomes a member of the NAACP board of directors.
1945: Becomes a U.S. delegate of the United Nations.
1948-49: Teams with daughter Anna and ABC on a daytime radio discussion program.
1948: Helps to secure passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the GA.
1950: Teams with son Elliot and NBC on a TV and radio show.
1952: Resigns from the U.N. delegation after Eisenhower was elected President.
1957: Travels to the Soviet Union for the New York Post, meets Nikita Khrushchev.
1960: Writes You Learn by Living.
1961: John F. Kennedy re-appoints Eleanor to the U.N. & appoints her the first head of the President's Commission on the Status of Women.
1962: Dies of complications from tuberculosis on November 7.
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Fast Facts
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Born
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Place of Birth
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As a child, Eleanor wanted to be a singer
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Known as the "The First Lady of the World"
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The first First Lady to hold a weekly press conference
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Refused protection from the Secret Service and carried a pistol in her purse
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Served Nikita Khrushchev and the King and Queen of England their first hot dog
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Advocate for improvement of working conditions, low wages and the right to unionize for women
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American spokesperson for the United Nations
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Her proudest achievement was spearheading the draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women
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Children
Anna Eleanor, James, Elliott, Franklin, John
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Had twenty-two grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren
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Died on November 7, 1962 in New York, New York
