Anna Eleanor Roosevlt - Hyde Park, NY
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N 41° 46.077 W 073° 56.091
18T E 588533 N 4624560
First Lady of the United States, author, diplomat and human rights activist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt is interred along with her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the rose garden of their family estate in Hyde Park, NY.
Waymark Code: WMZWA7
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/13/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member fi67
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The gravesite of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt is marked with a large rectangular slab of white marble on which is inscribed:

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
1882 - 1945
ANNA ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
1884 - 1962

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City. On March 17, 1905 she married her fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt and together they lived in Franklin's Hyde Park estate. Upon the election of Franklin as president of the United States she served as First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She died in New York City on November 7, 1962.

After her husband's death in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker. She became famous in her own right because of her advocacy for civil rights and social justice. She served as the United States Representative and Chairwoman to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, and was appointed by President Kennedy to be Chairwoman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.

Wikipedia list the following books by Eleanor Roosevelt:

Hunting Big Game in the Eighties: The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt (1932)
When You Grow Up to Vote (1932)
It's Up to the Women (1933)
A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty (1935)
This Is My Story (1937)
My Days (1938)
This Troubled World (1938)
Christmas: A Story (1940)
Christmas 1940 (1940)
The Moral Basis of Democracy (1940)
This is America (1942)
If You Ask Me (1946)
This I Remember (1949)
Partners: The United Nations and Youth (1950)
India and the Awakening East (1953)
UN: Today and Tomorrow) (1953)
It Seems to Me (1954)
Ladies of Courage (1954)
United Nations: What You Should Know about It (1955)
On My Own (1958)
Growing Toward Peace (1960)
You Learn By Living (1960)
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961)
Your Teens and Mine (1961)
Eleanor Roosevelt's Book of Common Sense Etiquette (1962)
Eleanor Roosevelt's Christmas Book (1963)
Tomorrow Is Now (1963)

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