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  James Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Roosevelt (December 23, 1907 – August 13, 1991) was the oldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
Roosevelt married Betsey Cushing, one of the famous Cushing sisters.
Roosevelt died in Newport Beach, California in 1991 of complications arising from a stroke and Parkinson's disease.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
James Roosevelt was a moderately successful businessman, with a variety of investments and a special interest in coal.
Young Roosevelt was a good student, popular with his fellow students as well as with his teachers.
The bride’s uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, was present at the ceremony in New York City on March 17, 1905.
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 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Roosevelt allied himself firmly with reform elements in the party by his vigorous campaign for Woodrow Wilson in the election of 1912.
Roosevelt was reelected governor in 1930, and, to deal with the growing problems of the economic depression, he in 1932 surrounded himself with a small group of intellectuals (later called the Brain Trust) as well as with other experts in many fields.
Roosevelt’s inaugural address held words of hope and vigor to reassure the troubled country—“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”—and at the same time to prepare it for a prompt and unprecedented emergency program—“This Nation asks for action, and action now.
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 Theodore Roosevelt Association
Roosevelt, who called himself P. James, held a number of positions as an investment counselor, but most of his time was spent maintaining the Roosevelt heritage, said John A. Gable, a friend and executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association of Oyster Bay.
Roosevelt held a number of positions in that group, including treasurer from 1964 to 1966 and from 1987 to 1998 and president from 1972 to 1977.
Roosevelt was born in Manhattan but spent much of his young life between a home there and the family's home in Cove Neck.
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 James Roosevelt - Moviefone
ROOSEVELT, James, (son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and brother of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.), a Representative from California; born in New York...
James was a tall, slender and wealthy man with considerable society connections, an eligible bachelor...
James Roosevelt, son of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt...
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 James Roosevelt (1907-1991)
James Roosevelt, ("Jimmy") the second child and first son of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, was, apart from his sister, Anna, the Roosevelt child most active in FDR's political career.
However, her support for James was so strong that she almost resigned from the United Nations in 1950 when Harry Truman refused to endorse his candidacy for governor of California.
James died in 1991 of complications from a stroke.
www.gwu.edu /~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/roosevelt-james-son.cfm   (616 words)

  
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
On January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York to James Roosevelt, the son of a wealthy family, and Sara Delano Roosevelt, the second wife of James Roosevelt.
However, Roosevelt was considered unfit for the presidency by his opponents, but he flew to the Democratic National Convention where he not only disproved this theory, but also delivered one of the most powerful speeches of this run for office.
Roosevelt would join the Allies after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and he entered on the side of the Allies.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt - MSN Encarta
Roosevelt held office during two of the greatest crises ever faced by the United States: the Great Depression of the 1930s, followed by World War II (1939-1945).
His domestic program, known as the New Deal, introduced far-reaching reforms within the free enterprise system and prepared the way for what is often called the welfare state.
In Roosevelt’s 12 years in office strong executive leadership became a basic part of United States government.
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 American President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Roosevelt’s combination of confidence, optimism, and political savvy – all of which came together in the experimental economic and social programs of the “New Deal” -- helped bring about the beginnings of a national recovery.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, to James and Sara Roosevelt.
James Roosevelt was a land-owner and businessman of considerable, but not awesome, wealth.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
That simple lesson taught by James Roosevelt was to have a profound impact on the history of the American Republic and countless millions of people.
Her father, one of James' business associates, had made and lost fortunes in the China trade before settling with his wife and 11 children on the west bank of the Hudson.
The Roosevelts were a mostly Republican family as was customary for the wealthy elite of the late 19th Century.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Politics/politics_roosevelt.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States (1933-45), greatly expanded the role of the federal government with a wide-ranging economic and social program, the New Deal, designed to counter the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Of Dutch and English ancestry, Roosevelt was born on Jan. 30, 1882 at Hyde Park, N.Y., to James Roosevelt, scion of a noted, wealthy family, and his second wife, Sara Delano Roosevelt.
Roosevelt's opponents claimed that he was intellectually and physically unfit for the presidency.
www.vcsc.k12.in.us /staff/mhutch/modpres/fdr/index.htm   (682 words)

  
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882, the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was reelected to the State Senate in 1912, and supported Woodrow Wilson's candidacy at the Democratic National Convention.
Roosevelt's popularity and success in naval affairs resulted in his being nominated for vice-president by the Democratic Party in 1920 on a ticket headed by James M. Cox of Ohio.
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 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945, 32d President of the United States (1933-45), b.
Roosevelt's inaugural address held words of hope and vigor to reassure the troubled country— "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" —and at the same time to prepare it for a prompt and unprecedented emergency program— "This Nation asks for action, and action now.
Roosevelt's letters (4 vol., 1947-50) were edited by E. Roosevelt, and his public papers and addresses (13 vol., 1938-50, repr.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, on January 30, 1882, the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt.
In 1905, Roosevelt married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin and the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt had established himself as a leader and was only 38; the defeat did him little harm.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roosevelt's administration redefined liberalism for subsequent generations and realigned the Democratic Party based on his New Deal coalition of labor unions, farmers, ethnic, religious and racial minorities, intellectuals, the South, big city machines, and the poor and workers on relief.
Roosevelt's strong base in the most populous state made him an obvious candidate for the Democratic nomination, which was hotly contested since it seemed clear that incumbent Herbert Hoover would be defeated at the 1932 election.
Roosevelt firmly established the United States' leadership role on the world stage, with pronouncements such as his Four Freedoms speech forming a basis for the active role of the United States in the war and beyond.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt   (9340 words)

  
 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt found work at the law firm tedious, much of the firm’s practice was in corporate law and he felt irritated by the routine.
Roosevelt is 18 and grew up in Berkeley, Calif. He was headed to the Democratic National Convention in Boston to serve as a volunteer.
Roosevelt Library and Museum - Repository of the records of President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt, managed by the National Archives and Records Administration.
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 Roosevelt Dime
James had graduated from Union College and Harvard Law School, married, had a son, and took over his family's extensive holdings in coal and transportation.
In 1880, four years after the death of his first wife, James met and married Sara Delano who was a sixth cousin and at 26 years, she was half her husband’s age.
In 1904, Roosevelt cast his first vote in a presidential election for his cousin, who was running for reelection after having become president with the assassination of President McKinley in 1901.
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 Franklin Delano Roosevelt — FactMonster.com
At an early stage, Roosevelt became aware of the menace to world peace posed by totalitarian fascism, and from 1937 on he tried to focus public attention on the trend of events in Europe and Asia.
Roosevelt's program to bring maximum aid to Britain and, after June 1941, to Russia was opposed, until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor restored national unity.
His wife, (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt, whom he married in 1905, was a woman of great ability who made significant contributions to her husband's policies.
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 TIME.com: Death of a Lady -- Sep. 15, 1941 -- Page 1
Sara Delano was quite a catch for James Roosevelt when he wound up his whirlwind courtship and married her in 1880.
She met James Roosevelt at a dinner party given by his cousin, Theodore Roosevelt.* A retired lawyer and sportsman, James Roosevelt was a widower with a son her age.
James Roosevelt left her the place at Hyde Park, to be passed on to their son when she died.
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 Roosevelt University - Fireside Chat: James Roosevelt, Jr. on Social Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
4:30 PM James Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and former associate commissioner for retirement policy for the Social Security Administration, will discuss current and historical issues involving social security at 4:30 p.m.
Roosevelt Jr., who is senior vice president and general counsel of Tufts Health Plan, has been vocal in criticizing those who have contended his grandfather would have wanted a portion of social security to be privatized.
The lecture and discussion is the first in a series of New Deal “fireside chats” that are being held at Roosevelt University, a private, non-sectarian institution which advocates social justice and is named for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: James Roosevelt Joins PACked Field In Eighth Congressional District Race
Roosevelt, the grandson of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt `04, labels Kennedy and himself "the, real men behind the famous names" in a $20,000 radio spot that criticizes Kennedy for condoning campaign contributions from political action committees, (PACs).
Roosevelt's political consultant Barry Kaplovitz said the candidate's family fame would satisfy the Eighth District voters' "appetite for celebrity," the legacy of past representatives such as retiring Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr., John F. Kennedy '40, and James Michael Curley.
Roosevelt, Gallagher, and Bachrach have allsaid they would be willing to cap personalcampaign spending and would abide by a mutualdecision to cap campaign spending at $500,000, asproposed by State Rep. William F. Galvin(D-Allston), also a candidate.
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 HV/Net - Hudson Valley Network
The Roosevelts had ties to the Hudson River Valley dating back to the 17th century, but it was not until 1818 that Franklin Roosevelt's great grandfather moved to the Hyde Park area.
Sara shared James' affection for the place, declaring that the Roosevelts and other Hudson Valley gentry were "living life as it should be." To young Franklin, whose father passed on to him his love for the outdoors, the estate's woods and fields were paradise.
Franklin Roosevelt donated his home and 33 acres to the American people in 1943, on the condition that his family be allowed to use it after his death.
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 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Britain's Winston Churchill, and the USSR's Joseph Stalin discussed the terms of peace and the postwar world.
Roosevelt was the vice-presidential candidate on James M. Cox's ticket in 1920.
Roosevelt was related by blood or marriage to 11 former presidents.
www.seattleu.edu /artsci/history/us1945/prez/fdr.htm   (381 words)

  
 About Franklin D. Roosevelt :: The Roosevelts and the Royals by Will Swift
Franklin’s father, James Roosevelt, American country squire and peripatetic traveler, taught Franklin to love Britain and to emulate the lifestyle of an English gentleman.
In August 1921, Franklin Roosevelt sailed a yacht to Campobello, his family’s summer home in Maine, for his annual vacation, and promptly came down with poliomyelitis.
Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place.
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 10 O'Clock News | [Mel King and James Roosevelt]
Vaillancourt says that neither King nor Roosevelt fit into O'Neill's tradition of "clubhouse" politics; that King is courting minority voters and the left; that Roosevelt is campaigning for the votes of affluent professionals.
Vaillancourt reports that Roosevelt has never run for political office; that King is a "perennial candidate." Vaillancourt says that Roosevelt comes from a patrician family with a long political tradition; that King is the son of West Indian immigrants.
Vaillancourt reports that Roosevelt has served on the boards of the Mt. Auburn Hospital and the Cambridge Public Library; that Roosevelt has campaigned for numerous Democratic candidates; that Roosevelt's name garners him a lot of attention.
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 James Roosevelt
James Roosevelt, the son of Franklin D. Roosevelt and
By the end of the war Roosevelt had reached the rank of brigadier general.
Roosevelt was elected to the House of Representatives and served between 3rd January, 1955 and 30th September 1965.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: James Roosevelt Bayley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was named after his maternal grandfather, James Roosevelt, a merchant of large fortune, who made him his heir, but altered the will when Bayley became a Catholic priest, under the mistaken idea that priests could not possess property.
A large part of the money went to build the Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
Bayley's early schools days were spent at Amherst College, where he once thought of going to sea and obtained a commission of midshipman in the navy.
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 FDR's Grandson on Bush and the Iraq War - Newsweek Campaign 2004 - MSNBC.com
This summer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's name and legacy were invoked by almost a dozen speakers at the Republican National Convention.
Their sister, Anna, and their mother, Eleanor Roosevelt, ministered to the soldiers and sailors with the American Red Cross.
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, together with Joseph Stalin and sometimes even Charles DeGaulle, knew that military victory leading to an unplanned peace was hollow and potentially disastrous.
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