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A distant cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born into a patrician family whose history stretched back to the colonial era, but her early life was not an easy one. Both of her parents died when she was a young girl. In 1899 she was sent to London, England, to study at a private boarding school for three years. As she was later to recount, she received intellectual and emotional support from the headmistress at the school. In 1905 she and Franklin Roosevelt married. Soon her life was filled with the demands of five children and a politician husband. During World War I her involvement in organizing a soldiers' canteen and her activities for the Red Cross led to a concern for social welfare that would shape her life's work.
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