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Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in a fine townhouse in Manhattan.
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Her older brother Elliot was born and caught diphtheria and died.
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When she was six, her father left to a sanitarium to deal with his drinking problem.
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Her mother became ill with painful headaches.
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The youngest brother of Eleanor was born.
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Eleanor´s mother de beautiful Anna died.
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Eleanor´s father; Elliott Roosevelt died. During this time Eleanor had lost mother, brother and father.
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Eleanor was sent by her grandmother to Allenswood; a private academy for girls located on the outskirts of London.
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When she was almosr eighteen years old, she left Allenswood, not returning for her fourth year there.
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Franklin promised that his love was indeed “for life,” and Eleanor
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Eleanor and Franklin were married.
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After giving birth to their firtst child, during the next nine years Eleanor gave birth to five more babies, one´s of whom died in infancy.
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Their first child was born. During the next nine years
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In 1910 he was elected to the New York State Senate.
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President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, which was a powerful position in the national government, which required the Roosevelts to move to Washington, D.C.
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The United States entered World War I as an active combatant.
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The Democratic Party chose Franklin as its candidate for
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He fell ill with infantile paralysis polio which was the horrible disease that each year used to kill or cripple thousands of children, and many adults as well.
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He was elected governor of New York.
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Four years after Franklin was elected governor of New York, he was elected president of the United States
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Eleanor Roosevelt was first lady of the United States
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Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as well as on other American installations in the Pacific.
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She visited barracks and hospitals on islands throughout the South Pacific.
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Franklin Roosevelt, who had gone to Warm Springs, Georgia, for a rest, was dead.
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President Harry S. Truman invited her to be one of the American delegates going to London to begin the work of the United Nations.
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Declaration of Human Rights won approval of the UN General Assembly by a vote of forty-eight to zero.
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At the age of seventy-eight, Eleanor died in her sleep. She was buried in the rose garden at Hyde Park, alongside her husband.