Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
- Great wealth and privilege, but mother died when Eleanor was eight, and her father, an alcoholic, two years later.
- Raised by maternal grandmother, tutored privately until 15, then finishing school in England.
- At 17, returned to New York, became social worker.
- Married FDR 1905, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt giving the bride away.
- Five children.
- Tensions between Hyde Park and Oyster Bay Roosevelts.
- Alice (TR's daughter) encouraged FDR's affair with Lucy Mercer
- Eleanor finds out
1918, resumes independent life
- FDR contracts poilio August 1921, Eleanor decisive to rehabilitation.
- With FDR's career, Eleanor becomes essential campaigner, also goes on the road as his most important fact-finder.
- Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)
- Unofficial representative of FDR to the Bonus Marchers in 1932.
- Eleanor's use of media to highlight particular problems...plight of the coal miners in 1933.
