Elliott Roosevelt

Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 – October 27, 1990), World War II hero and an author, was the son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt.

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September 23 - 1910 - October 27 - 1990 - World War II - President - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Eleanor Roosevelt

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On 28 February 1934 he and Anthony Fokker each received an excessive half a million dollars for selling fifty military planes to the Soviet government. Elliot and Fokker were able to receive such a large commission because Elliot had close connections to the U.S. Export-Import Bank through his father, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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28 February - 1934 - Anthony Fokker - U.S. Export-Import Bank

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Elliott Roosevelt was married five times:

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• 1) On 16 January 1932 he married Elizabeth Donner, daughter of William Henry Donner. They had one son, William Donner Roosevelt, in 1932, and the marriage was annulled in 1933.
• 2) On 22 July 1933 in Burlington, Iowa he married Ruth Josephine Googins. They had three children, Ruth Chandler Roosevelt (b.1934), Elliott Roosevelt II (b.1936), and David Boynton Roosevelt (b.1942), and were divorced in March 1944. Ruth Googins Roosevelt died in 1974.
• 3) On 3 December 1944, at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, he married actress Faye Emerson. They were divorced on 17 January 1950. She died of stomach cancer in 1983 in Spain.
• 4) On 15 March 1951 at Miami Beach, Florida he married Minnewa Bell Gray Burnside Ross. They were divorced in 1960. Minnewa died in 1983.
• 5) In November 1960 at Qualicum, British Columbia, Canada he married Patricia Peabody Whitehead. Her four children, James M. Whitehead, Ford Whitehead, Gretchen Whitehead, and David Macauley Whitehead all adopted Roosevelt as their surname. The couple's only child together, Livingston Delano Roosevelt, died as an infant.
 
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