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On July 22, 1933, in Burlington, Iowa, he married Ruth Josephine Googins (1908–1974). They had three children: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt (1934–2018), Elliott Roosevelt, Jr. (b. 1936), a Texas oilman, and David Boynton Roosevelt (1942–2022). Roosevelt and Googins were divorced in March 1944. She married Harry T. Eidson on June 23, 1944.
Elliott Roosevelt had been married five times. On January 16, 1932, he married Elizabeth Browning Donner, with whom he had one son, William Donner Roosevelt. They divorced in 1933. On July 22, 1933, he married Ruth Josephine Googins, having three children with her.
- Mary McLeod Bethune. The 15th child of formerly enslaved parents, Bethune became a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and, through her, a trusted advisor to FDR.
- Winston Churchill. FDR’s fellow wartime leader was both an ally in the fight against Hitler and a personal friend who often visited the White House. When Roosevelt died in 1945, Churchill eulogized him as “the greatest American friend we have ever known.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower. As the U.S. and its allies prepared for the D-Day invasion of Europe, FDR put the West Pointer in charge as supreme commander of allied forces.
- Fala. A Scottish terrier born in 1940, Fala became the president’s constant companion and a national celebrity. In a famous speech, Roosevelt rebuffed critics by saying, “I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them."
Elliott married five times and fathered four children. He also adopted the four children of his last wife. He died of congestive heart failure in 1990.
Oct 10, 2024 · Eleanor Roosevelt was an American first lady (1933–45), the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, and a United Nations diplomat and humanitarian. She was one of the world’s most widely admired and powerful women.
- Betty Boyd Caroli
On March 17, 1905, she married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and between 1906 and 1916, they became the parents of six children: Anna Eleanor (1906-75), James (1907-91), Franklin Delano, Jr. (1909), Elliott (1910-90), Franklin, Jr. (1914-88) and John (1916-81).
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Oct 28, 1990 · Mr. Roosevelt died of congestive heart failure, his wife, the former Patricia Peabody, said.
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