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John Aspinwall Roosevelt was the youngest son of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, worked in business and politics, and had a strained relationship with his mother.
John Aspinwall Roosevelt, the sixth and last child of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, was a businessman, philanthropist, and, unlike the rest of the Hyde Park Roosevelts, a Republican. He was also the only one of ER's sons who did not have political aspirations.
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- Elliott Roosevelt
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FDR and Eleanor gave their eldest child—and only daughter—the same birth name as her mother. At age 20, Anna wed a Wall Street broker 10 years her senior partly to escape the tensions between Eleanor and her husband and her domineering mother-in-law. “I got married when I did because I wanted to get out,” she said. That marriage ended after Anna fe...
Named after his paternal grandfather, James Roosevelt followed the family’s well-trodden path to the Groton School and Harvard University. During the 1932 presidential campaign, 24-year-old “Jimmy” often appeared at his father’s side for support—literally. Unable to walk under his own power, Roosevelt would grasp his son’s arm for balance and take ...
Named for Eleanor’s father—and Theodore Roosevelt’sbrother—Elliott Roosevelt was the Roosevelts’ most rebellious child. He skipped college for high-paying media jobs and often attacked his father’s policies as a newspaper columnist. Bucking the family’s naval tradition, the aviation buff joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. While Republicans alleged nep...
Franklin and Eleanor’s third child—Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.—suffered from a heart condition and died in 1909 at the age of seven months. As author Joshua Kendall writes in First Dads, “The hypomanic, chronically upbeat FDR would essentially erase this infant from the family’s history” by giving the same name to his fifth child, born in 1914. The nam...
After graduating from Harvard, the youngest Roosevelt child worked briefly as a retail clerk before serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After his father denied his application for sea duty in 1942, John wrote, “I don’t care what the ship looks like or is, as long as she at least floats for a while.” Eventually assigned to the Pacific, he ...
Learn about the six children of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, including their marriages, careers and relationships with their parents. John Aspinwall Roosevelt, the youngest son, was a naval officer and aide to his father.
John Aspinwall Roosevelt was the son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. He was born in 1916, married Anne Lindsay Clark, and had two daughters.
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31. Jan. 2018 · John A. Roosevelt: “I Don’t Care What the Ship Looks Like Or Is” The President’s youngest child, John Aspinwall Roosevelt was 25 years old when he joined the US Navy in early 1941. After graduating from Harvard, John began a career in retail, a set of skills that led to his assignment to the Navy Supply Corps after his ...
Learn about the life and achievements of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, the youngest son of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, who served in the Navy, worked in business, and supported Republican candidates. Find sources and a recommended citation for this article from The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers project.
John Aspinwall Roosevelt was the sixth and last child of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, a Republican businessman and philanthropist. He lived next to ER at Val-Kill and sold the property after her death in 1962.
