54 Facts About Eleanor Franklin

1. Eleanor Franklin enjoyed corresponding with President Kennedy and with Mrs Kennedy, both of whom she thought were serving the country well.

2. Eleanor Franklin loved to celebrate anniversaries, birthdays, and other special occasions, and she continued to enjoy these events at Hyde Park or at her apartment in New York City.

3. Eleanor Franklin was bitterly opposed to the anti-communist campaign of persecution led by Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s.

4. In 1952 Eleanor Franklin traveled throughout the world in support of humanitarian causes.

5. Eleanor Franklin referred to her time at the UN as "one of the most wonderful and worthwhile experiences in my life.

6. Eleanor Franklin made the necessary financial arrangements and enjoyed visits with friends and family at Hyde Park.

7. Eleanor Franklin quickly made plans to move from the White House.

8. Eleanor Franklin worked with officials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and supported federal antilynching laws that her husband had failed to endorse for fear of losing Southern votes.

9. Eleanor Franklin worked with others to ensure that programs for women were included in the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, which created work projects for people on relief.

10. Eleanor Franklin believed it was the government's responsibility to aid people struggling through the Depression.

11. Eleanor Franklin would depend on her for input for the rest of his life.

12. Eleanor Franklin reported back to the much improved Franklin what the public thinking was on various issues.

13. Eleanor Franklin began to make a few political speeches on her own.

14. Eleanor Franklin began teaching the older girls in 1927 in American history, English, literature, and current events.

15. Eleanor Franklin spent much time there with Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman, two friends who were leaders in Dewson's Women's Division.

16. Eleanor Franklin returned with his family to New York City and formed a law partnership with Grenville Emmet and Langdon Marvin.

17. Eleanor Franklin proposed in the fall of 1903, and they married on March 17, 1905, with President Theodore Roosevelt giving Eleanor away.

18. Eleanor Franklin chose Eleanor Franklin to accompany her on travels through Europe during school breaks.

19. Eleanor Franklin served as the first US delegate to the United Nations from 1945 to 1951.

20. Eleanor Franklin brought people who could not vote and, until the New Deal, did not count, into the mainstream of American life.

21. Eleanor Franklin was eighteen when she joined her girl-hood chums and helped build the Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements.

22. From an early age, Eleanor Franklin was committed to a square deal and a new deal, for the United States and for the world.

23. Eleanor Franklin became ardent about public affairs, and she pursued a life of responsibility.

24. Eleanor Franklin devoted herself to the formal role of first lady.

25. Eleanor Franklin resisted, but their relationship shifted to a political and social friendship.

26. In 1918, she discovered that Eleanor Franklin was having an affair with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer.

27. In 1913, Eleanor Franklin was appointed assistant secretary of the US Navy, so the family moved to Washington, DC Eleanor continued to support her husband's career by performing the social duties expected of an official's wife.

28. In 1910, Eleanor Franklin won a seat in the state senate, and the family moved to Albany, where Eleanor took on the role of a politician's wife.

29. Eleanor Franklin began to act as Eleanor Franklin's "legs and ears" and acquired a certain reputation of her own.

30. Eleanor Franklin suffered from paralysis and permanently lost the use of his legs.

31. Eleanor Franklin began to act upon this teaching after her return to New York, plunging into work for the good of others.

32. Eleanor Franklin quickly moved from the White House to her Val-Kill cottage.

33. Eleanor Franklin believed government had the responsibility to aid those people struggling most.

34. Eleanor Franklin began making political speeches on her own and continued to relay to the improving Franklin the thinking on various issues.

35. Eleanor Franklin began teaching there in 1927 in several subjects including American history, English, literature, and current events.

36. Eleanor Franklin promised never to see Lucy again, but Eleanor's self-pride and confidence suffered.

37. Eleanor Franklin discovered Eleanor Franklin had fallen in love with her own young and beautiful personal secretary, Lucy Mercer.

38. Eleanor Franklin would increasingly resent her intrusion in their lives as the years went by.

39. Eleanor Franklin never felt at home in the houses at Hyde Park or New York, but she loved the family's vacation home on Campobello Island, which Sara gave to the couple.

40. On March 17, 1905, 20-year-old Eleanor Franklin married Franklin Roosevelt, a 22-year-old Harvard University student and her fifth cousin once removed.

41. Eleanor Franklin married Eleanor Franklin Roosevelt, her fifth cousin once removed, in 1905.

42. Eleanor Franklin always enjoyed the good graces of her uncle Theodore Roosevelt, the main figure of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts.

43. Eleanor Franklin had written against certain proposals like funding of certain activities, such as bus transportation for students, of Catholic schools.

44. Eleanor Franklin arranged for Anderson to perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on Easter Sunday, to a live audience of 70,000.

45. Eleanor Franklin was an active First Lady with her own ideology on many issues.

46. Eleanor Franklin arranged that Eleanor Franklin go to England for education, and Eleanor readily agreed.

47. Eleanor Franklin lived in a stone cottage at Val-Kill, which was two miles east of the Springwood Estate.

48. Eleanor Franklin was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.

49. Eleanor Franklin died on April 12, 1945 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.

50. Eleanor Franklin was not in favor of his wife becoming a pilot.

51. Eleanor Franklin developed a deep attachment to Eleanor Franklin which compromised her objectivity and she resigned from the AP.

52. At the time of her engagement, Eleanor Franklin was a shy, insecure girl looking for love and acceptance.

53. Eleanor Franklin agreed, and the two women snuck away from the White House, commandeered an aircraft and flew from Washington, DC to Baltimore.

54. Eleanor Franklin went so far as to whisk Eleanor Franklin away on a foreign vacation in the hopes of changing his mind.