Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor
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Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor
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US social worker, lecturer, and first lady. Her newspaper column ‘My Day’, started in 1935, was widely syndicated. She influenced New Deal policies, especially those supporting desegregation. She was a delegate to the United Nations general assembly and chair of the UN commission on human rights 1946–51, and helped to draw up the Declaration of Human Rights at the UN in 1945. She was married to her cousin President Franklin D Roosevelt, and was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt.
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