ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 1884 1962 SOCIAL REFORMER AND FIRST LADY ROOSEVELT ELEANOR 1884 1962 U.S GOV'T EXECUTIVE FEMINISM REFORM MOVEMENTS U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION ELECTIONS AND POLITICS ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY IN 1884 AND WAS THE NIECE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT SHE WAS RAISED BY HER GRANDMOTHER AND EDUCATED IN ENGLAND IN 1905 ELEANOR MARRIED FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT A DISTANT COUSIN AFTER FRANKLIN CONTRACTED POLIO IN 1921 ELEANOR BECAME MORE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN POLITICAL WORK SHE SERVED FIRST AS HER HUSBAND'S POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVE AND LATER WORKED FOR HER OWN CAUSES SHE BECAME FIRST LADY IN 1933 WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT DURING HIS 12 YEAR PRESIDENCY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT FOUGHT FOR A NUMBER OF SOCIAL REFORMS INCLUDING CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION POVERTY REDUCTION AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS DURING WORLD WAR II SHE FOUGHT FOR FAIR TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN WARTIME OPERATIONS AND INTERVENED WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT WHEN IT IGNORED THE PLIGHT OF JEWISH REFUGEES FROM EUROPE AFTER THE WAR ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WAS APPOINTED A DELEGATE TO UNITED NATIONS WHERE SHE LOBBIED FOR THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE 1950S SHE BECAME MORE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN EFFORTS TO FOSTER INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN 1961 PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY APPOINTED HER CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN SHE DIED IN 1962 IN HER HOME IN NEW YORK CITY
