Profile
John Aspinwall Roosevelt
Male
Born
Mar 13, 1916
Hometown
Hyde Park, New York
Died
Apr 27, 1981
Death Place
New York City
Political Party
Republican Party ...
John Aspinwall Roosevelt was the sixth and last child of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the only Roosevelt son who never sought political office.
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CHILDHOOD
1916
Birth
Born on March 13, 1916.
TWENTIES
1937
21 Years Old
In 1937, John was involved in a drunken brawl and an attack on the mayor in Cannes that made headlines across the world.
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1938
22 Years Old
John Aspinwall Roosevelt married Anne Lindsay Clark (1916–1973), a "Boston Brahmin", on June 18, 1938 in Massachusetts. They had a son, Haven Clark Roosevelt, and three daughters, Anne Sturgis "Nina" Roosevelt (b. 1942), Sara Delano "Sally" Roosevelt (1946–1960) and Joan Lindsay Roosevelt (1952–1997). Their daughter, Sally, was killed in a horse riding accident in 1960.
After graduation from Harvard, his father's alma mater, John worked at Filene's Department Store in Boston until America entered World War II in 1941.
THIRTIES
1947
31 Years Old
Although John Roosevelt leaned Republican at an early age, he deliberately kept an apolitical stance until after his father's death. In 1947, John Roosevelt changed his political affiliation to Republican, a gesture his mother interpreted as an attempt to win support from his wife's family, his father-in-law being a staunchly Republican Boston banker.
He was also involved with Elliott Roosevelt in several businesses, especially in Cuba after Fulgencio Batista took power in 1952.
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FORTIES
1956
40 Years Old
In 1956, Roosevelt began consulting for the investment firm of Bache and Company, which he joined in 1967, retiring as a vice-president in 1980.
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1962
46 Years Old
More importantly, the presence of John and his family enabled Eleanor Roosevelt to live at Val-Kill until her death in 1962.
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FIFTIES
1970
54 Years Old
Within three years of Eleanor Roosevelts's death, John divorced and remarried. In 1970, he sold the Val-Kill properties.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
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