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Elliott Roosevelt was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a wartime officer in the US Army Air Forces. He flew 89 combat missions, attended several Allied conferences, and wrote books and novels.
Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt [1] (February 28, 1860 – August 14, 1894) was an American socialite. [2] He was the father of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the younger brother of Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), the 26th president of the United States.
Elliott Roosevelt may refer to: Elliott Roosevelt (socialite) (1860–1894), American socialite, father-in-law of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, father of Eleanor Roosevelt, younger brother of President Theodore Roosevelt, and grandfather of Gen. Elliot Roosevelt (below)
Elliott Roosevelt was a distinguished wartime pilot and aviation official. The son of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he joined the US Army Air Corps a year before the United States joined the Second World War and was promoted to the post of brigadier general within a few years.
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FDR and Eleanor gave their eldest child—and only daughter—the same birth name as her mother. At age 20, Anna wed a Wall Street broker 10 years her senior partly to escape the tensions between Eleanor and her husband and her domineering mother-in-law. “I got married when I did because I wanted to get out,” she said. That marriage ended after Anna fe...
Named after his paternal grandfather, James Roosevelt followed the family’s well-trodden path to the Groton School and Harvard University. During the 1932 presidential campaign, 24-year-old “Jimmy” often appeared at his father’s side for support—literally. Unable to walk under his own power, Roosevelt would grasp his son’s arm for balance and take ...
Named for Eleanor’s father—and Theodore Roosevelt’sbrother—Elliott Roosevelt was the Roosevelts’ most rebellious child. He skipped college for high-paying media jobs and often attacked his father’s policies as a newspaper columnist. Bucking the family’s naval tradition, the aviation buff joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. While Republicans alleged nep...
Franklin and Eleanor’s third child—Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.—suffered from a heart condition and died in 1909 at the age of seven months. As author Joshua Kendall writes in First Dads, “The hypomanic, chronically upbeat FDR would essentially erase this infant from the family’s history” by giving the same name to his fifth child, born in 1914. The nam...
After graduating from Harvard, the youngest Roosevelt child worked briefly as a retail clerk before serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After his father denied his application for sea duty in 1942, John wrote, “I don’t care what the ship looks like or is, as long as she at least floats for a while.” Eventually assigned to the Pacific, he ...
Elliott Roosevelt was the most rebellious child of FDR and Eleanor, who skipped college, joined the Army Air Corps and flew 300 combat missions in World War II. He also wrote a bestseller about his father's wartime meetings and revealed his affair with Missy LeHand in a controversial book.
Learn about the life and career of Elliott Roosevelt, the favorite son of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, who served as a military aide, a radio producer, a mayor and a writer. Find out how he influenced and challenged his parents, and how they supported him despite their differences.
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Oct 28, 1990 · Elliott Roosevelt, a World War II Air Corps general, a breeder of Arabian horses and an author whose works included a series of mystery novels that cast his mother, the...
