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october 11, 1884 - november 7, 1962

in 1933

Eleanor Roosevelt

She married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt on march 17, 1905. She gave 6children : Anna Eleanor, James, Fraklin Delano Jr ( died in infancy), Elliot, Franklin Jr and John. Eleanor supported and helped him advance his goals. She became more active in polities when he was elected governor of New York in 1928.

between 1941-1942

1945-1961

in 1943

in 1962

In 1943, she visited a troops, hospitals and factories. Eleanor instructed the White House staff to prepare simple American dinner. She also renovated the White House kitchen, and redesigned the Red Room, the location of her women's only press conferences.

In 1962, she spent her later years living between her home VaelKill and an apartment in NYC. Eleanor Roosevelt is dead. On November 1962, she was laid to rest beside her husband at their Hyde Parkestate, next to the Franklin D. Roosevelt President Library and Museum.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president in 1933, Eleanor underrated the role of first lady, sshe said " there is going to be just plain, ordinary Mrs Roosevelt and that's all". She became the first lady to have her press conferences for women reporters. The nation combat the "Great Depression", Eleanor traveled the country, visiting the siles of reliefs projects and meeting citizens.

In 1945, the President is dead, President Harry S. Truman appointed Eleanor as a delegate to the United Nation. She served as the chair of the Human Rights Comission where she played an important role in drafting the 1948 Universel Declaration of Human Rights. After resigning her post in 1953, she voluntered with the American Association for the United Nation. President John F. Kennedy reappointed Eleanor to the United Nation in 1961 and later appointed her to the National Advisory Commite of the Peace Corps and to the President's Comesron on the Status of Women.

Between 1941 and 1942, Eleanor served as Assistant Director of Civilian Defense, organising volunter workers. After the US entered World War II, she traveled to England where she spend time with wounded servicemembers and visited military bases and distribution centers