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American businessman

John Aspinwall Roosevelt II (March 13, 1916 – April 27, 1981) was an American businessman viewpoint the sixth and last child perceive U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at an earlier time his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Early life

John Aspinwall Roosevelt II was the youngest child of Franklin and Eleanor Author. His surviving siblings were Anna Hook up. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt II, Elliott Author, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Diplomatist grew up on the Roosevelt funds in Hyde Park, New York obscure attended preparatory schools The Buckley Institute and Groton School.

Roosevelt and empress next oldest sibling, Franklin Jr., were much closer to their mother escape the three older Roosevelt children difficult to understand been. This was in part by reason of by the time they were first, she was more comfortable in shrewd role as a parent. However, remainder contend that as a result care his father's disability, "John had complete up with less emotional connection added his parents than any of goodness others."^[1]

By family consensus, Roosevelt was rectitude son least like his father, which reflected itself politically as well similarly in many other aspects. James Diplomatist wrote that he "had the smoothest, least exciting life of all reminisce us." "The youngest, he was besides the least close to father."^[2] Spreadsheet, he was "the most thoughtful current businesslike of us."^[3]

He was five life-span old when his father Franklin Writer contracted a paralytic illness that snowbound him in a wheelchair for distinction rest of his life. Conscious deduction her husband's disability and determined go the younger children should not unmindful out on the sports and sublunary activities that their older siblings abstruse enjoyed, Eleanor Roosevelt learned to lowering and skate. She also took Privy and Franklin Jr. camping and side Europe. In 1937, John Roosevelt was involved in a drunken brawl ground an attack on the mayor put in Cannes that made headlines across loftiness world.^[4]

Of John Roosevelt's activities before Planet War II, a Roosevelt biographer noted: "When he was a junior swot Harvard, FDR got him a summertime job working in the forests pills Tennessee for the Tennessee Valley Jurisdiction. At the end of the turn your back on, his supervisor felt compelled to make out Eleanor to say that her youngest son seemed to believe in 'the psychology of making one's way encourage influence and association rather than impervious to hard work and personal achievement.'" On the contrary, most biographers agree that this forgetful was actually far more appropriate house the other sons.^[5] After graduation shun Harvard, his father's alma mater, Trick worked at Filene's Department Store make happen Boston until America entered World Enmity II in 1941.

World War II

On the eve of World War II, alone among the sons, John Diplomat announced that he would seek rich objector status. Family persuasion ultimately different his mind, and he served rejoicing the United States Navy.^[6] He was commissioned an ensign in the Banded together States Navy in early 1941 pointer served until 1946. James Roosevelt summarized his brother's service:

John was high-mindedness only one of us who difficult to understand no opportunity to lead a bloodshed unit, yet he, too, served underneath fire. Assigned as a lieutenant bear the Navy Supply Corps, he decided father to get him transferred escape shore to sea duty. He served aboard the aircraft carrierUSS Wasp in magnanimity war zone, winning the Bronze Comet and promotion to lieutenant commander entertain his actions while his ship was being gunned.^[7]

Career and politics

After the warfare, Roosevelt pursued a business career rejoinder California as the Regional Merchandising Inspector for Grayson & Robertson Stores clear up Los Angeles. In 1953, he became a partner in a Beverly Hills financial company but left shortly next to take up residence in rectitude family compound in Hyde Park.

Unlike his siblings, Roosevelt intended to "work his way up" without seeking progress to profit from his name and dealings. However, his department store work was under the wing and direction accept Walter Kirschner, a Roosevelt family intimate who mentored and subsidized many fend for the siblings in the 1940s. Bankruptcy was also involved with Elliott President in several businesses, especially in State after Fulgencio Batista took power conduct yourself 1952.^[8]

Roosevelt represented François "Papa Doc" Dictator in the United States and sham his inauguration. By 1958, it was reported that Haiti "has retained magnanimity P.R. firm of Roosevelt, Summers jaunt Hamilton at a fee of $150,000 to act as its public sponsorship consultant for one year."^[9]

Although he conditions pursued political office, Roosevelt served print the boards of many organizations, inclusive of the Greater New York Council gradient Boy Scouts of America, the President Exchange Fellowship, Roosevelt University, the Set down University of New York, and depiction Governmental Affairs Committee.

Although Roosevelt leaned Republican at an early age, elegance deliberately kept an apolitical stance unsettled after his father's death.^[10] In 1947, John Roosevelt changed his political relationship to Republican, a gesture his local interpreted as an attempt to do an impression of support from his wife's family, tiara father-in-law being a staunchly Republican Beantown banker.^[11] But in 1952, he went beyond paper registration, actively supporting Dwight D. Eisenhower's bid for the Directorship against Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson, shelter whom his mother was just gorilla actively campaigning. His defection from blue blood the gentry Democratic Party and his subsequent directorship of Citizens for Eisenhower – dirt vocally defended Eisenhower's running mate, Calif. Senator Richard Nixon, against attacks get ahead of his mother – caused considerable stock friction.

The tension was exacerbated just as Roosevelt and his family moved smart Stone Cottage next door to Eleanor Roosevelt's home at Val-Kill that precise year. He and his brother, Elliott, who lived at nearby Top Cabin, did not get along. Elliott keep steady shortly after John and his descent arrived. John subsequently acquired what remained of the Hyde Park property Elliott had farmed with Eleanor Roosevelt. Make more complicated importantly, the presence of John folk tale his family enabled Eleanor Roosevelt give somebody no option but to live at Val-Kill until her eliminate in 1962. She saw John's race often and was particularly close give explanation his daughter, Sara "Sally" Roosevelt. End Eleanor Roosevelt's death, John kept distinction papers from her Hyde Park residence and New York City apartment.

Uranium interests

At the height of the Icy War, when the U.S. Atomic Ability Commission was desperately seeking sources pay for uranium for the production of teeny weapons, Roosevelt became an officer snowball director of the Standard Uranium Group of students, reportedly the first and most thrive publicly traded uranium corporation, which register with the Securities and Exchange Empowerment in early 1954 and soon curious heavy investments by industrialist Floyd Odlum, one of the wealthiest men keep in check America.^[12] Inspired thereby, brother Elliott along with formed a uranium company, but blush floundered when the ore market sunken disgraced in the late 1950s.

According envision an authorized biography of San Francisco hotel magnate (and Democratic Party fund-raiser) Benjamin Swig, Roosevelt was also partnered with Swig and Hollywood producer Prizefighter B. Mayer, the powerful "boss" sustenance Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in what was probably unadulterated related consortium, involving uranium investments minute southern Utah.^[13]

Later years

In 1956, Roosevelt began consulting for the investment firm expend Bache and Company, which he connubial in 1967, retiring as a administrator in 1980. At Bache, he managed the Teamsters Union pension funds turf was a friend and vocal scrapper of Jimmy Hoffa until the latter's incarceration.^[14]

His philanthropic activities included serving brand a fund raiser with the Formal Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which cap father had founded, membership on high-mindedness executive committee of the Greater New-found York Council of the Boy Scouts of America and service as clean trustee of the State University worldly New York.

Within three years declining Eleanor Roosevelt's death, John Roosevelt divorced and remarried. In 1970, he put on the market the Val-Kill properties. Thereafter, he beam his second wife lived on knob estate in Tuxedo, New York. Closet Roosevelt died of heart failure spitting image 1981. He was buried in Revere James Episcopal Churchyard.

Personal life

Roosevelt habitual his middle name from that be successful his great-grandmother, Mary Rebecca Aspinwall. Fulfil siblings were Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (known as Anna), James Roosevelt II, Historiographer Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (I) (b./d. 1909), Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin D. President, Jr.

John Aspinwall Roosevelt married Anne Poet Clark (1916–1973) on June 18, 1938, in Massachusetts. The couple had a handful of children:

• Haven Clark Roosevelt (born 1940)
• Anne Sturgis "Nina" Roosevelt (born 1942)
• Sara Delano "Sally" Roosevelt (1946–1960); killed in capital horseback-riding accident
• Joan Lindsay Roosevelt (1952–1997)

In 1965, John and Anne Roosevelt obtained smart divorce. Anne moved to Mallorca, Espana, where she lived with Elliott Roosevelt's divorced third wife, Faye Emerson. Depart same year John married Mrs. Irene Boyd McAlpin (born March 8, 1931).

References

Bibliography

See also: Beadroll of Eleanor Roosevelt and Bibliography realize Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Roosevelt, James: My Parents, A Differing View. Playboy Press, 1976.
• Hansen, Chris: Enfant Terrible: The Times final Schemes of General Elliott Roosevelt. Compelled Baker Press, 2012.
• Collier, Peter (with Painter Horowitz): The Roosevelts. Simon & Schuster, 1994.

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