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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Elliott Roosevelt
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Elliott Roosevelt

American, 1910 - 1990
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Place of BirthNew York, New York, USA
Place of DeathScottsdale, Arizona, USA
Elliot Roosevelt was the fourth child of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and their second surviving son. During World War II, Elliott served as a distinguished combat pilot and unit commander in the US Army Air Corps, and was an aide to his father at the Atlantic, Casablanca, and Cairo-Teheran Conferences. Following the war, he had an active career in business, and for a time served as Eleanor Roosevelt's business partner and communications manager. He also became an author and family biographer.

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