![]() ![]() ![]() In 1918, Eleanor was devastated to discover that Franklin was having an affair with her secretary, Lucy Mercer. READ MORE: How Eleanor Roosevelt Pushed for a Universal Declaration of Human RightsĪ year after their wedding, Teddy Roosevelt, who was very fond of his niece, wrote to FDR, “you and Eleanor are true and brave, and I believe you love each other unselfishly…” However, their married life proved less than blissful. As Franklin pursued a career in politics, Eleanor raised five children (a sixth died in infancy), volunteered in civic organizations and worked for women’s suffrage before becoming first lady. Former President Theodore Roosevelt gave away the bride. In 1903, a 22-year-old Franklin proposed marriage to the 19-year-old Eleanor the couple wed two years later on St. ![]() They saw each other frequently at dances and parties and over the years became very close. As a result, Eleanor was raised by the extended Roosevelt family and met her future husband for the first time when she was just two years old and he was four. Her father, Elliot, a brother of Theodore Roosevelt, died as a result of alcoholism when she was 10 years old. Future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt weds his fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt, in New York on March 17, 1905.Įleanor, born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt in New York in 1884, lost her mother Anna to diphtheria when she was eight. ![]()
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