Curtis Roosevelt
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Roosevelt signing a book at the Boston Athenæum in 2010
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Curtis Roosevelt Dall April 19, 1930 New York City |
| Died | September 26, 2016 (aged 86) Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard, France |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Children | 1 |
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| Family | Roosevelt family |
Curtis Roosevelt (April 19, 1930 – September 26, 2016) was an American writer. He was the son of Anna Roosevelt and her first husband, Curtis Bean Dall. He was the eldest grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was born on April 19, 1930 in New York City. When he was three, Curtis, his sister Eleanor, and his mother moved into the White House, where they lived for many years until his mother remarried. Curtis was often referred to as "Buzzie" in 1930s newspapers. After his parents' 1934 divorce, his mother married journalist Clarence John Boettiger in 1935. His younger half-brother, John, was born in 1939. When his mother was divorced from Boettiger in 1949, Eleanor Roosevelt and Anna did not want Curtis to reassume the surname Dall, so Mrs. Roosevelt suggested he use his middle name as his last name.
Roosevelt graduated from Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He later attended Loyola University in Los Angeles.
Roosevelt married four times, first on May 23, 1950 to Robin H. Edwards, with whom he had one daughter, Julianna Edwards Roosevelt. Roosevelt and his wife Robin divorced in March 1954. He subsequently married Ruth W. Sublette on March 6, 1955 and Jeanette Schlottman on May 2, 1961. Since 1985, he was married to Marina Roosevelt. He had one grandson, Julianna's son Nicholas Roosevelt.
In the mid-1950s, Roosevelt served as a private in the United States Army.
Between 1956 and 1964, he worked for several years in advertising and then primarily for nonprofit institutions, including as regional director for the National Citizens Council for Better Schools and then as vice president in charge of public affairs for the New School for Social Research. From 1963 to 1964, he served as executive director of the United States Committee for the United Nations.
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