16 Facts About Curtis Roosevelt

Curtis Roosevelt was the eldest grandson of President Franklin D Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Curtis Roosevelt Dall was born on April 19,1930, in New York City.

When his mother and Boettiger divorced 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.

Curtis Roosevelt graduated from Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Curtis Roosevelt subsequently married Ruth W Sublette on March 6,1955, and Jeanette Schlottman on May 2,1961.

Between 1956 and 1964, Curtis Roosevelt 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.

In 1964, Curtis Roosevelt was recruited by the Secretariat of the United Nations to join the Public Information Department and in the following years, until 1983, held various positions in the international civil service.

Curtis Roosevelt obtained his master's degree from the School of Government and Public Law at Columbia University.

From 1983 to 1986, Curtis Roosevelt served as principal at the Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England.

Curtis Roosevelt served as a visiting professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, a for-profit business whose lack of university accreditation has put it under the spotlight of the news media, receiving an honorary doctorate in 2010.

In 1987, he and his wife Marina moved to Deia, Mallorca, where Curtis Roosevelt devoted himself to pottery, some of his work being exhibited in a Palma gallery.

Curtis Roosevelt occasionally wrote on American politics for El Mundo in Spain.

Curtis Roosevelt lectured at Lille University and regularly appeared on French television.

Curtis Roosevelt wrote occasionally for Le Figaro, the International Herald Tribune and had articles in La Tribune, France-Amerique, Marianne and the Commune de la Commune.

In 2013, Curtis Roosevelt published an essay in e-book form, "Eyewitness in Israel: 1948", detailing his journey, at age 18, to the then-new nation at the behest of his grandmother Eleanor, with whom he was traveling in Paris and who sent him in her stead to report back.

Curtis Roosevelt died on September 26,2016, due to a heart attack, in Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard at the age of 86.