Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor childhood was far from perfect. She grew up with an alcoholic father and tried hard to please her mother. Life was easier for Eleanor as the wife of the president. She became a fighter for human rights. Anne Eleanor was her full name and she was born on October 11, 1884. She was just two and a half, when she had terrifying experience of escaping from a sinking ship. She became afraid of boats and swimming.

She loved her father very much. She adored him. She needed him desperately, because her mom was very cold to her. At the age of 7 her father was taken away from her to recover his health. The following year her mother died. Eleanor went to live with her grandmother. In 1899 when she was fifteen she was sent to a boarding school in England. She was very happy there. She was almost 18 when she returned to America. She married her cousin Franklin. Franklin became President of the United States. They had a lot of children together. Later she joined the League of Women Voters.

By 1928 she was a leading figure in the women's division of the Democratic Committee. She wrote a column for newspapers called "My Day." She died on November 7, 1962.

1998, by Lukas, third grade

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