Elliot Roosevelt
Elliot Roosevelt (23 September 1910-27 October 1990), World War II hero and an author, was the son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962).
On 16 January 1932 he married Elizabeth Browning Donner, daughter of William Henry Donner. They had one son, William Donnor Roosevelt, in 1932, and the marriage was annulled in 1933.
On 22 July 1933 in Burlington, Iowa he married Ruth Josephine Googins. They had three children, Ruth Chandler Roosevelt (b. 1934), Elliott Roosevelt (b. 1936), and David Boynton Roosevelt (b. 1942), and were divorced in March 1944. Ruth Googins Roosevelt died in 1974.
On 3 December 1944, at the Grand Canyon in Colorado, he married actress Faye Margaret Emerson, after whom the Emmy Awards are said to be named. They were divorced on 17 January 1950. She died of stomach cancer in 1983 in Spain.
On 15 March 1951 at Miami Beach, Florida he married Minnewa Bell Gray Burnside Ross. They were divorced in 1960. Minnewa died in 1983.
In November 1960 at Qualicum in British Columbia in Canada he married Patricia Peabody Whitehead. Her four children, James M. Whitehead, Ford Whitehead, Gretchen Whitehead, and David Macauley Whitehead all adopted Roosevelt as their surname. Their only child together, Livingston Delano Roosevelt, died as an infant.
Early Life
Elliot was the fourth of Franklin and Eleanor's six children, (their third child died in infancy about a year before Eliot's birth). Sara (Eleanor's mother-in-law, Franklin's mother) chose nannies for the children and told both Eleanor and the children that Eleanor was "only the one who bore you: I am your real mother." (Source: http://www.nps.gov/fdrm/er/debutante.htm)
This might have caused some problems growing up.
Most of Elliot's early biography might be discernible by looking for info on his famous parents.
War Record
Colonel Elliot Roosevelt was a pilot in the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) during World War II. He flew a P-38 Lightning in the North Africa campaign of November 1942. (Source: P-38 article)
Writing
He was the author of numerous books including a bestselling mystery series.
