Eleanor Roosevelt

Diplomat who chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

生誕: 11 October 1884
逝去: 7 November 1962
享年: 78 歳
埋葬地: 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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