Franklin Delano Roosevelt III
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt III | |
|---|---|
FDRIII, right, with his father and paternal grandmother in 1962.
|
|
| Born |
July 19, 1938 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Columbia University |
| Occupation | Economist, academic |
| Spouse(s) | Grace Rumsey Goodyear (m. 1962) |
| Children | Phoebe Louisa Roosevelt Nicholas Martin Roosevelt Amelia Roosevelt |
| Parent(s) |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. Ethel du Pont |
Franklin Delano "Frank" Roosevelt III (born July 19, 1938) is an American economist and academic. Through his father, he is a grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and through his mother he is a member of the prominent du Pont family.
Franklin is the first child born to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. and his first wife, Ethel du Pont. He was born during his paternal grandfather's second term as president and was his eighth grandchild to be born. After his birth, his father said, "'Battling' Frank III is a beautiful baby."
He has a younger brother, Christopher du Pont Roosevelt, born 1941, from his parents marriage as well. From his father's later marriages, of which there were five in total, he has two younger half-sisters, Nancy Suzanne Roosevelt (born 1952) and Laura Delano Roosevelt (born 1959), and a younger half-brother, John Alexander Roosevelt (born 1977). He also has a younger half-brother, Benjamin S. Warren III (born 1954), from his mother's later marriage to attorney Benjamin S. Warren, Jr.
After graduating from St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, Frank Roosevelt received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University in 1961, his master's degree from Columbia University in 1968, and his Ph.D. from The New School.
His dissertation was entitled Towards a Marxist Critique of the Cambridge School. His work has primarily focused on combining Marxism and capitalism in an attempt to make modern economic systems more "fair" and less prone to the "winner takes all" scenario.
In 1977, he became a professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, where he was chair of the social sciences faculty from 1988 to 1990 and 1991 to 1993. He is a now professor emeritus, and continues to speak out on his grandparents' legacies.
...
Wikipedia