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April 1945: Franklin Roosevelt is now deceased, and Eleanor must leave the White House and determine her next chapter. From her memoir: I rode down in the old cagelike White House elevator… with a feeling of melancholy and something of uncertainty, because I was saying good-by to an unforgettable era and I had given little thought to the fact that from this day forward I would be on my own… If you have been married for forty years and if your husband has been

1932: Franklin is governor of New York, yet his political ambition continues to grow. Eleanor admits in her memoir: “Franklin did not tell me when he decided to run for the Presidency…” (Roosevelt, 158) Like with the previous political offices Franklin held, Eleanor did not express her disinterest in his desires, and showed willingness to sacrifice her wellbeing for his ambition (something we see many significant others continue to do to this day). She would travel to Chica

As Eleanor attempted to settle into her prototypical role as a housewife and mother, Franklin had bold aspirations for his life direction. He graduated from Harvard and briefly attended Columbia Law School, then went on to pass the New York bar and subsequently hired by a law firm in New York City; however his passion for serving the public enveloped him. Franklin made the easy decision to pursue an enduring political career, which began close to home with a nomination for

Eleanor returned home from London and spent that summer at her maternal grandmother’s country home Tivoli; while enjoyable, she soon found herself preparing for her debut at cotillion. (cotillion: “a formal ball given especially for debutantes”; this was an event partaken by young women typically from upper class families) Eleanor’s struggles with self-confidence were still evident at the many balls she attended as part of her “coming out”; she states about her ex

Eleanor with her father Elliott (the love of her life) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born October 11, 1884 in New York, New York. Eleanor’s mother, as she put it in her autobiography: “…belonged to that New York City society which thought itself all-important.” (Roosevelt, 4) Her father, Elliott, was a younger brother of Theodore Roosevelt; Eleanor described him as “…charming, good looking, loved by all who came in contact with him, had a background and upbringing which were