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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted (
May 3,
1906 –
December 1,
1975),
née Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Jr., also
Anna Dall and
Anna Boettiger in earlier marriages, was the first child of
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was named for her mother and grandmother,
Anna Roosevelt and was usually called
Anna or
Sis.
Biography
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Jr. was born at 125 E. 36th St. in
New York City. Caught in a triad of three strong willed people — her mother, father, and grandmother, the domineering
Sara Roosevelt — young Anna Eleanor had to grow up quickly. Anna's father later became the 32nd U.S. president, her mother the famous first lady. After her 1924 graduation from Miss Chapin's school (now the
Chapin School), she attended a short course at
Cornell University in the forestry school. She was married for the first time, in
Hyde Park, New York, in 1926 to stockbroker
Curtis Bean Dall. They had two children:
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, usually known as "Sisty" on
March 25,
1927, and
Curtis Roosevelt on
April 19,
1930. "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, Nev." (
Syracuse Herald, Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Six months after her divorce, on Jan 18, 1935, she married 34-year-old journalist (Clarence) John Boettiger. Her second husband had recently resigned from the
Chicago Tribune, and signed on with the
Will H. Hays organization, the
Motion Picture Producers of America. With her second husband, she'd a son,
John Roosevelt Boettiger on
March 30,
1939. They divorced in 1949, and he committed suicide the following year. She married Dr. James Addison Halsted in 1952.
In 1944, at her father's request, Anna moved into the
White House to serve as an assistant to the President and as White House hostess during her mother's frequent absences. Anna, who accompanied her father on the trip to
Yalta, was a witness to many
historic moments, but she also carried the burden of dealing with some of the most intimate and painful decisions of her parents during their dysfunctional
marriage.
Anna was active as a
writer and
journalist, and she served as
editor of the woman's page of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1936 until 1943. Her husband, John Boettiger, was hired by William R. Hearst to take over as publisher following a bitter labor dispute with its employees in 1936. Between 1932 and 1934, Anna was associate editor of a magazine called Babies Just Babies (her mother Eleanor also had ties to this publication); hosted a radio program sponsored by the Best and Company Department Store; contributed articles to Liberty magazine; and wrote two children's books,
Scamper and
Scamper's Christmas. Anna devoted much of her later life to problems of
education and to carrying on many of her mother's interests and philanthropies. She was an active supporter of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
She died of
throat cancer at the age of 69, in
New York City and is interred at
Hyde Park, New York.
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