Eleanor Roosevelt's groundbreaking role as First Lady—advocating for refugees during World War II and pushing for policies to help the poor—set the stage for her later humanitarian work as a delegate to the United Nations
. The young couple married in 1905; Eleanor’s uncle, Teddy Roosevelt, gave her away at the altar. As a young wife and future mother of six children, Eleanor became half of an unconventional marriage that would last four decades.The marriage was happy, but Eleanor was devastated when she discovered her husband’s affair with another woman in 1918. The couple almost divorced, but Franklin’s promising political career and his mother’s disapproval of the marriage’s dissolution prevented it.
with two friends, where she served as associate principal. She also worked for the Democratic Party and the League of Women’s Voters and founded Val-Kill Industries, where local farmers supplemented their incomes by creating furniture and home goods.Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt leave the U.S. Capitol just after he took the oath of office in 1933, kicking off the first of his historic four terms as President of the United States.Please be respectful of copyright.
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