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Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 – October 27, 1990) was an American aviation official and wartime officer in the United States Army Air Forces, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Jan 31, 2018 · Second eldest son Elliott Roosevelt could have avoided serving in World War II, having been classified as 4-F because of poor eyesight. But his love of flying prompted him to petition his case to volunteer for service to General Hap Arnold, chief of the Army Air Force.
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
- James Roosevelt II
- Elliott Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
- John Aspinwall Roosevelt
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 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.
Elliott Roosevelt, the second son and third child of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, had a varied career in communications, politics and business. Named for her father and like him in many ways, Elliott was ER's favorite child and the one for whom she felt the most responsibility.
He was promoted to Major, Air Reserve, on March 26, 1942; to lieutenant colonel on August 6, 1942; and to colonel on February 23, 1943; and to brigadier general (temporary) on January 20, 1945. He was retired from active duty on August 15, 1945.
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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 First Lady, as an...
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