Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States, from March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945; as the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Because her husband was the longest-serving president, Eleanor is the longest-serving First Lady.
Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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1st Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women | |
In office January 20, 1961 – November 7, 1962 | |
President | John F. Kennedy |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Esther Peterson |
1st United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights | |
In office January 27, 1947[1] – January 20, 1953[2] | |
President | Harry S. Truman |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Mary Pillsbury Lord |
1st Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights | |
In office April 29, 1946[3] – December 30, 1952[4] | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Charles Malik |
First Lady of the United States | |
In role March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945 | |
President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Preceded by | Lou Henry Hoover |
Succeeded by | Bess Truman |
First Lady of New York | |
In role January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932 | |
Governor | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Preceded by | Catherine Dunn |
Succeeded by | Edith Altschul |
Personal details | |
Born | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 New York City, U.S. |
Died | November 7, 1962 New York City, U.S. | (aged 78)
Cause of death | Cardiac failure complicated by tuberculosis |
Resting place | Home of FDR National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | |
Children | 6 including Franklin, Anna, Elliott, James, and John |
Parents | |
Relatives | See Roosevelt family |
Signature | |
Books about Eleanor Roosevelt
edit- Beasley, Maurine Hoffman. Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady (University Press of Kansas, 2010) online.
- Beasley, M. H. (1987). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media: A Public Quest for Self-Fulfillment. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.[5][6]
- Bell-Scott, P. (2016). The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.[7]
- Berger, J. (1981). A New Deal for the World: Eleanor Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press.[8]
- Black, A. M. (1996). Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press.[9][10]
- Cook, B. W. (1993). Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: The Early Years, 1884-1933. London: Bloomsbury.[11][12][13]
- Cook, B. W. (2000). Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two: The Defining Years, 1933-1938. London: Bloomsbury.[14][15]
- Cook, B. W. (2016). Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Three: The War Years and After, 1939-1962. London: Bloomsbury.
- Glendon, M. A. (2001). A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House.[16]
- Golay, M. (2016). America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal. New York: Simon & Schuster.[17]
- Goodwin, D. K. (2013). No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster.[18][19]
- Hareven, T. K. (1975). Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Conscience. New York: Da Capo Press.[20][21]
- Harris, C. M. (2007). Eleanor Roosevelt. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.[22]
- Kearney, R. (1968). Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: The Evolution of a Reformer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.[23][24]
- Lash, J. P. (1982). Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and her Friends. New York: Doubleday.[25][26]
- Lash, J. P. (1971). Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers. New York: W. W. Norton.[27]
- Lash, J. P. (1972). Eleanor: The Years Alone. New York: W. W. Norton.
- Lightman, M., & Hoff, J. (1984). Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.[28][29]
- Michaelis, David (2020). Eleanor (First hardcover ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-9201-6. OCLC 1139765459.
- Quinn, Susan. Eleanor and Hick: The love affair that shaped a first lady (Penguin, 2017) online, with Lorena Hickock.
Journal articles about Eleanor Roosevelt
edit- Abramowitz, M. (1984). Eleanor Roosevelt and the National Youth Administration 1935-1943: An Extension of the Presidency. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 14(4), pp. 569–580.
- Atwell, M. (1979). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Cold War Consensus. Diplomatic History, 3(1), pp. 99–113.
- Beasley, M. (1986). Eleanor Roosevelt's Vision of Journalism: A Communications Medium for Women. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 16(1), pp. 66–75.
- Black, A. (1990). Championing a Champion: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Marian Anderson "Freedom Concert". Presidential Studies Quarterly, 20(4), pp. 719–736.
- Black, A. (1999). Struggling with Icons: Memorializing Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. The Public Historian, 21(1), pp. 63–72.
- Black, A. (2008). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. OAH Magazine of History, 22(2), pp. 34–37.
- Blair, D. (2001). No Ordinary Time: Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the 1940 Democratic National Convention. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 4(2), pp. 203–222.
- Burke, F. (1984). Eleanor Roosevelt, October 11, 1884-November 7, 1962-She Made a Difference. Public Administration Review, 44(5), pp. 365–372.
- Cook, B. (2000). Woman of the Century: Eleanor Roosevelt's Biographer Assesses the Legacy of a First Lady Who Sought Justice for All. The Women's Review of Books, 17(10/11), pp. 22–23.
- Erikson, J. (1964). Nothing to Fear: Notes on the Life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Daedalus, 93(2), pp. 781–801.
- Fogel, D. (1974). Eleanor Roosevelt Writes From European Tour, 1918. The Georgia Review, 28(4), pp. 703–704.
- Gilbert, S., & Shollenberger, K. (2001). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Declaration of Human Rights: A Simulation Activity. OAH Magazine of History, 15(3), pp. 35–36.
- Graham, H. (1987). The Paradox of Eleanor Roosevelt: Alcoholism's Child. The Virginia Quarterly Review, 63(2), pp. 210–230.
- Grant, P. (1979). Catholic Congressmen, Cardinal Spellman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the 1949-1950 Federal Aid to Education Controversy. Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 90(1/4), pp. 3–13.
- Hobbins, A. (1998). Eleanor Roosevelt, John Humphrey: And Canadian Opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Looking Back on the 50th Annivesary [sic] of UNDHR. International Journal, 53(2), pp. 325–342.
- Miller, K. (1999). A Volume Of Friendship: The Correspondence of Isabella Greenway and Eleanor Roosevelt, 1904-1953. The Journal of Arizona History, 40(2), pp. 121–156.
- Patton, T. (2006). "What Of Her?" Eleanor Roosevelt and Camp Tera. New York History, 87(2), 228–247.
- Penkower, M. (1987). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Plight of World Jewry. Jewish Social Studies, 49(2), pp. 125–136.
- Pfeffer, P. (1996). Eleanor Roosevelt and the National and World Woman's Parties. The Historian, 59(1), pp. 39–57.
- Roemer, K. (2005). The Multi-Missionary Eleanor Roosevelt of American Indian Literatures. Studies in American Indian Literatures, 17(2), pp. 101–105.
- Seeber, F. (1990). Eleanor Roosevelt and Women in the New Deal: A Network of Friends. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 20(4), pp. 707–717.
- Urdang, I. (2008). Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: Human Rights and the Creation of the United Nations. OAH Magazine of History, 22(2), pp. 28–31.
- Watson, Robert P. (1997) "The first lady reconsidered: Presidential partner and political institution." Presidential Studies Quarterly 27 (1997): 805+ online
- Winfield, B. (1988). "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's White House Legacy: The Public First Lady". Presidential Studies Quarterly, 18(2), pp. 331–345. online
- Winfield, B. (1990). The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 20(4), pp. 699–706.
- The First Eleanor Roosevelt International Caucus of Women Political Leaders. (1988). Signs, 13(2), pp. 372–373.
Primary sources written by Eleanor Roosevelt
edit- 1933 – It's Up to the Women. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company
- 1935 – A Trip to Washington With Bobby And Betty. New York: Dodge
- 1937 – This is my story. New York: Bantam Books. First part autobiography
- 1940 – Christmas. A Story. New York: Knopf
- 1949 – This I Remember, New York: Harper & Bros. Second part autobiography
- 1953 – UN: today and tomorrow. New York: Harper & Brothers. Co-author: William DeWitt
- 1953 – India and the awakening East. New York: Harper & Brothers
- 1958 – On My Own, New York: Harper & Bros. Third part autobiography
- 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt's Book of Common Sense Etiquette. New York: The Macmillan Company
- 1963 – Tomorrow is now. New York: Harper & Row. Published posthumously
- Knepper, C. D. (2004). Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War. New York: Carroll & Graf.[33]
- Roosevelt, E., & Beasley, M. (1983). The White House Press Conference of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Garland.[a][34][35]
- Roosevelt, E., & Black, A. M. (2007). The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945–1948. Detroit: Thomson Gale.[36]
- Roosevelt, E., & Black, A. M. (2012). The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Vol. 2: The Human Rights Years, 1949–1952. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
- Black, A. M. (2000). Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Columbia University Press.[37]
- Roosevelt, E., & Black, A. M. (2007). The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Roosevelt, E., & Roosevelt, I. N. (2014). The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Harper Perennial.
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Collection of 84 transcripts for the White House press conferences of Eleanor Roosevelt and her two statements of the press. Covers period from March 6, 1933 – April 12, 1945.
References
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- ^ "Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Truman Correspondence: 1953–60". Truman Library. September 24, 2015. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
- ^ Sears, John (2008). "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (PDF). FDR Presidential Library & Museum.
- ^ Fazzi, Dario (December 19, 2016). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Anti-Nuclear Movement: The Voice of Conscience. Springer. p. 109, Note 61. ISBN 978-3-319-32182-0.
- ^ Steinson, Barbara J. (1989). "Reviewed work: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media, A Public Quest for Self-Fulfillment, Maurine H. Beasley". The Historian. 52 (1): 127–128. JSTOR 24447631.
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- ^ Fisher (2016). "The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice". QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. 3 (3): 207–210. doi:10.14321/qed.3.3.0207. JSTOR 10.14321/qed.3.3.0207. S2CID 152106599.
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- ^ Rosenau, James N. (1968). "Reviewed work: Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Conscience, Tamar K. Hareven; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: The Evolution of a Reformer, James R. Kearney". The American Historical Review. 74 (2): 761–762. doi:10.2307/1853906. JSTOR 1853906.
- ^ Schauble, Jeanne (1982). "Reviewed work: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, Joseph P. Lash". The American Archivist. 45 (4): 486–487. JSTOR 40292546.
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- ^ Skocpol, Theda (1986). "Reviewed work: Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt., Joan Hoff-Wilson, Marjorie Lightman". Political Science Quarterly. 101 (3): 499–500. doi:10.2307/2151645. JSTOR 2151645.
- ^ Adams, D. K. (1985). "Reviewed work: Without Precedent: the Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt, Joan Hoff-Wilson, Marjorie Lightman". History. 70 (230): 471–472. JSTOR 24415504.
- ^ Perry, Elisabeth Israels (1985). "Reviewed work: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, J. William T. Youngs". The Journal of American History. 72 (1): 183. doi:10.2307/1903811. JSTOR 1903811.
- ^ Desantis, Vincent P. (1986). "Development in and into Service". The Review of Politics. 48 (1): 127–130. doi:10.1017/S003467050003758X. JSTOR 1406854. S2CID 145532863.
- ^ Gould, Lewis L. (1985). "Reviewed work: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, J. William T. Youngs". The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 83 (3): 286–287. JSTOR 23381047.
- ^ Rung, Margaret (2005). "Reviewed work: Dear MRS. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War, Cathy D. Knepper". The History Teacher. 39 (1): 124–125. doi:10.2307/30036754. JSTOR 30036754.
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- ^ McGuire, John Thomas (2009). "Reviewed work: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948, Allida Black". The Journal of American History. 95 (4): 1223–1225. doi:10.2307/27694684. JSTOR 27694684.
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