notes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Today I looked up Eleanor Roosevelt on the Internet. She was born in New York city on October 11,1884. she was the daughter of Anna Hall and Elliott Roosevelt. she had a younger brother name Theodore. Her mother died in 1892. The two children went to go live with there grandma Hall.Her dad died two years later. When she was 15 she went to a school in England and there she got her first chance to develop self-confidence among other girls. She dated her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They got engaged in 1903 and married in 1905. Eleanor and Franklin had 6 children and one died when it was a baby. Franklin also served in the state Senate from 1910 to 1913, Eleanor started her long career as political helpmate. 'Eleanor became active in the women's division of the State Democratic Committee to keep his interest in politics alive. When Mrs. Roosevelt came to the White House in 1933, she understood social conditions better than any of her predecessors and she transformed the role of First Lady accordingly. She never shirked official entertaining; she greeted thousands with charming friendliness. She also broke precedent to hold press conferences, travel to all parts of the country, give lectures and radio broadcasts, and express her opinions candidly in a daily syndicated newspaper column, "My Day." ( Anna Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html)