18 Facts About Mark Roosevelt

Mark Roosevelt was born on December 10,1955 and is an American academic administrator and politician who served as the seventh president of the Santa Fe campus of St John's College.

Mark Roosevelt was the President of Antioch College from January 2011 to December 2015 and superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, the second largest school district in Pennsylvania, until December 31,2010.

Mark Roosevelt served as a state legislator in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was the Democratic nominee for governor in the 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial election.

Mark Roosevelt was born and raised in Washington, DC and attended St Albans School.

Mark Roosevelt was related to his 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial opponent William Weld through Weld's wife at that time, Susan Roosevelt Weld, the daughter of Quentin Roosevelt II; Susan is Mark's second cousin.

Mark Roosevelt earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

In 1977, Roosevelt served as campaign manager for John D O'Bryant, the first black man elected to the Boston School Committee.

Mark Roosevelt served in the Massachusetts General Court from 1986 to 1994.

Mark Roosevelt was chief sponsor of a gay rights bill that had been introduced annually since 1972 but did not pass until 1989.

In 1994, Mark Roosevelt was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts and lost the general election to the Republican incumbent, William Weld.

Mark Roosevelt served as president of Antioch College from 2011 to 2015.

Mark Roosevelt led a process that resulted in "fast-track" accreditation consideration for Antioch from the Higher Learning Commission.

Mark Roosevelt negotiated an agreement between the College and Antioch University that eliminated any future claims of the university to Antioch College's campus or endowment.

On May 5,2015, Mark Roosevelt announced his departure from Antioch by the end of the year.

Mark Roosevelt was the seventh president of the Santa Fe campus of St John's College, which has a campus in Annapolis, Maryland, replacing Michael P Peters.

Mark Roosevelt has taught graduate level courses on the intersection of American history and public policy at Brandeis University and the Heinz Graduate School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark Roosevelt is married to Dorothy, the former project lead of Antioch College's Wellness Center, which opened to the public on September 6,2014.

Mark Roosevelt has an adopted son, Matthew, born in South Korea and raised in Boston, from a previous marriage.