As it turns out, the answer is yes: Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt were cousins — specifically, fifth cousins once removed. According to History.com, Eleanor was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and ...

Franklin’s mother, Sara, sat near him in the drawing room, swollen with pride and jewelry. Eleanor discarded protocol and greeted the visitors at the front door herself, among them cousins Teddy and ...

Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin once removed. She enrolls in the Junior League of New York where she teaches calisthenics and dancing to immigrants.

Who happened to be President of the United States at the time. Franklin Roosevelt met his fifth cousin, once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt in 1886, when her parents visited his parents at their ...

HISSING COUSINS By Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer ... political career she did much to make feasible. If Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt achieved a genuine modus vivendi, Alice and Nick Longworth ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, who holds the distinction ... She married her distant cousin and future president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, of nearby Hyde Park, in 1905. She devoted her first years of ...

A fierce advocate for the downtrodden during her husband’s presidency, Roosevelt spent her later years pushing for human rights—pioneering work that still resounds today. Eleanor Roosevelt's ...