John Roosevelt Boettiger
| John Roosevelt Boettiger | |
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John with Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt in October 1939.
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| Born |
March 30, 1939 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Residence | Northern California |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Professor of psychology (formerly) |
| Spouse(s) | Leigh McCullough |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) |
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger Clarence John Boettiger |
| Relatives |
Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (maternal half-sister) Curtis Roosevelt (maternal half-brother) Franklin D. Roosevelt (maternal grandfather) Eleanor Roosevelt (maternal grandmother) |
| Family | Roosevelt |
John Roosevelt Boettiger (born March 30, 1939, in Seattle, Washington) is a retired professor of developmental and clinical psychology, and the son of Anna Roosevelt Boettiger and her second husband, John Boettiger. He is the grandson of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. He lives in northern California.
As a child, he lived with his mother in the White House during World War II while his grandfather was president. His parents divorced in 1949, and his father committed suicide the following year. His mother remarried James Addison Halsted on November 11, 1952. She died on December 1, 1975.
As a college student at Amherst College he lived and traveled with his grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt and joined her in work on behalf of the United Nations. He served as national president of the Collegiate Council for the United Nations from 1958 to 1960, and also served on the board of the American Association for the United Nations.
Boettiger served for 21 years as professor of human development at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, of which he was founding faculty member. He created and was chairman of Hampshire's interdisciplinary Human Development Program. Leaving Hampshire to work with graduate students in clinical psychology, he was professor of psychology and dean of student affairs at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco and Berkeley, California. From 2007 to 2010 he was professor in the Research Institute of Modum Bad Psychiatric Center in Vikersund, Norway.
He is chairman of the board and president of the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, on whose board he has served for 40 years. Trained as a political scientist at Columbia University before moving to a career in psychology, he taught at his alma mater Amherst College, was a consultant to and member of the Social Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and briefly served as a desk officer at the United States Department of State. He holds a Ph.D. in developmental and clinical psychology, for which his principal mentor was Erik H. Erikson of Harvard University.
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