From the first 17th-century merchants who established their family's fortune to Eleanor Roosevelt's vehement activity in public affairs in the 1960s, the family's influence on American politics ...

Alice Roosevelt ... while Eleanor considered Alice vapid. What is amazing is that despite all the attacks and snubs by Alice, Franklin and Eleanor saw her constantly over the years, at family ...

Eleanor was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and was raised by her extended Roosevelt family in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Franklin’s side of the family (also referred to as a branch) was from Hyde ...

She was 84. (Lindsley family)(Photo provided by Ruth Lindsley) Chandler Roosevelt Lindsley, a granddaughter of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, died July 19 doing ...

Franklin and Eleanor ... Franklin Roosevelt was related to 11 U.S. presidents: five by blood and six by marriage and all but one — Van Buren — on his mother’s side of the family.

Eleanor Roosevelt had become First Lady just one month prior as her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... was born in 1884 to a prestigious family: Her father’s brother was President Theodore ...

Elliott Roosevelt driving his father President ... it provided an ideal retreat not only for Elliott and his family, but also for his parents Franklin and Eleanor. The First Lady made a visit ...