Clarence John Boettiger
| Clarence John Boettiger | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 25, 1900 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | January 31, 1950 (aged 49) Weylin Hotel, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Newspaperman |
| Spouse(s) |
Anna Roosevelt (m. 1935; div. 1948) Virginia Daly Lunn (m. 1949) |
| Children | John Roosevelt Boettiger |
| Parent(s) | Adam C. Boettiger Dora Ott |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |
 United States
|
| Service/branch |
 United States Army
|
| Years of service | 1942-1944 |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards | Legion of Merit |
Clarence John Boettiger (March 25, 1900 – October 31, 1950) was an American newspaperman and military officer. He was the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, the daughter and first child of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Clarence John Boettiger was born in Chicago on March 25, 1900, the son of Adam C. Boettiger, a banker, and his wife, Dora Ott. He abandoned the name Clarence during his high school years, and was thereafter known as John Boettiger. He began his career in journalism as a police reporter for the City News Bureau. He joined the Chicago Tribune in 1923 and was assigned to Washington, D.C., to cover President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he first campaigned for the presidency in 1932. The Tribune was fiercely anti-Roosevelt.
Boettiger met FDR's daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall, on her father's campaign train. She was recently separated from her husband Curtis Dall, and was living in the White House with her two children. Had John's and Anna's relationship been publicized, the course of American history may have changed, as such a scandal could have damaged FDR's candidacy for the presidency. Since Boettiger was a colleague and friend of the press, no one reported the romance. Both parties divorced their first spouses.
On January 18, 1935, John and Anna were married in the Roosevelts' New York townhouse at 49 E. 65th Street. The wedding was low-key and the couple said they would live quietly. At that time Boettiger had resigned from the Tribune and taken a job with the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.
Before William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate, fell out with President Roosevelt, he provided prominent and lucrative employment for FDR's son Elliott Roosevelt and in November 1936, for John and Anna. John became publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Anna was editor of the paper's women's pages. Hearst agreed to give the Boettigers editorial freedom to "make it the best paper in Seattle."
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