Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt, in full Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, (born

Oct. 11, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 7, 1962,
New York City), U.S. first lady and diplomat. The niece of
Theodore Roosevelt, she married her distant cousin,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1905. She raised their five
children and became active in politics after her husband’s
polio attack (1921). As first lady (1933–45), she traveled
around the U.S. to report on living conditions and public
opinion for her husband, and she supported humanitarian
causes such as child welfare, equal rights, and social
reforms. During World War II, she traveled in Britain and
the South Pacific as well as to U.S. military bases to help
raise morale. She wrote the syndicated column “My Day,”
as well as several books. After her husband’s death, she was
appointed a delegate to the UN (1945, 1949–52, 1961),
whose founding she had strongly advocated. As chair of its
Commission on Human Rights (1946–51), she helped draft
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). In the
1950s she traveled around the world for the UN and
remained active in the Democratic Party.

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