Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall Roosevelt (March 17, 1863 – December 7, 1892) was the mother of former
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,
Anna Eleanor RooseveltAnna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights...
.
Anna was the eldest child of Valentine Gill Hall and Mary Livingston Ludlow. Her siblings were: Elizabeth (1865-1944), Valentine Jr. (1867-1934), Mary (1869-1872), Edward (1872-1932), Edith (1873-1920) and Maude (1877-1952).
Anna, a celebrated beauty, married
Elliott RooseveltElliott Bulloch Roosevelt was the father of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and the brother of US President Theodore Roosevelt. Elliott and Theodore were of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts. Eleanor later married their Hyde Park Roosevelt cousin and future US President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Elliott was the...
, the brother of future
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in December 1883.
Anna Rebecca Livingston Ludlow Hall Roosevelt (March 17, 1863 – December 7, 1892) was the mother of former
First Lady of the United StatesFirst Lady of the United States is the title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the President of the United States, the title is most often applied to the wife of a sitting president...
,
Anna Eleanor RooseveltAnna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights...
.
Anna was the eldest child of Valentine Gill Hall and Mary Livingston Ludlow. Her siblings were: Elizabeth (1865-1944), Valentine Jr. (1867-1934), Mary (1869-1872), Edward (1872-1932), Edith (1873-1920) and Maude (1877-1952).
Anna, a celebrated beauty, married
Elliott RooseveltElliott Bulloch Roosevelt was the father of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and the brother of US President Theodore Roosevelt. Elliott and Theodore were of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts. Eleanor later married their Hyde Park Roosevelt cousin and future US President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Elliott was the...
, the brother of future
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in December 1883. Anna bore Elliott three children:
Anna EleanorAnna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights...
(1884-1962), Elliott Jr. (1889-1893), and
Gracie HallGracie Hall Roosevelt was the youngest brother of former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt and the nephew of Theodore Roosevelt. He was usually called Hall....
(1891-1941).
Like other society ladies, Anna Roosevelt had no profession beyond the role of wife and mother. Roosevelt was responsible however for numerous social events and charity balls. Within the circles that she and Elliott moved, both men and women fawned over Anna's beauty. By contrast, Anna was somewhat ashamed of her daughter Eleanor's plainness and even nicknamed Eleanor "Granny", due to her serious demeanor.
Shortly after the Hall-Roosevelt marriage on December 1, 1883, and the birth of their first child, Elliott began a life of gaiety which led to his problems with alcohol. In 1889 after the birth of their second child, Elliott's problems only increased and the family traveled to
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in search of treatment. The marriage teetered on collapse during their time in
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. Soon afterwards Elliott and Anna separated.
When Eleanor was eight, Anna Hall Roosevelt contracted
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and died at age 29. Less than two years later, Eleanor's father Elliott died on August 14, 1894 from a seizure after a failed suicide and the cumulative effects of alcoholism.
Anna's daughter Eleanor would go on to become
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of the United States of America when her husband, distant cousin
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, was elected President of the United States of America.
See also
- Elliott Roosevelt
Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt was the father of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and the brother of US President Theodore Roosevelt. Elliott and Theodore were of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts. Eleanor later married their Hyde Park Roosevelt cousin and future US President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Elliott was the...
, husband
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights...
, daughter
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , the only U.S. President elected to more than two terms, was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
, son-in-law
- Elliott Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt was an United States Army Air Forces officer and an author. Roosevelt was a son of U.S. President Franklin D...
, grandson
- Anna Roosevelt Halsted, granddaughter and namesake
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., grandson
- John Roosevelt Boettiger
John Roosevelt Boettiger is the son of Anna Roosevelt Boettiger and her second husband, John Boettiger, and is grandson of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. He lives in Modum, Norway and Massachusetts.As a child, he lived with his mother in the White House...
, great-grandson