Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882–1945
32nd President of the United States
Rose garden, Springwood estate, Hyde Park, New York
In memory of
Eleanor Roosevelt
Diplomat who chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 78 years
- Resting place
- Rose garden, Springwood estate, Hyde Park, New York, United States
Roosevelt reinvented the role of a president's wife, holding her own press conferences — open only to women reporters, which forced newspapers to hire them — and writing a daily newspaper column for twenty-six years.
After her husband's death she led the United Nations commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948. When it passed, the assembly gave her a standing ovation, something it had never done. She lies beside Franklin in the rose garden.
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Bard College Cemetery, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York