Timeline of Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt was a Famous American First Lady. She was perhaps the most politically active first lady of all times. Even after her husband's death she worked for various social and political causes. She made many invaluable contributions during her illustrious life.

Timeline:

1884: Eleanor was born on October 11th in New York City. Her father was Elliot Roosevelt and mother was Anna Hall Roosevelt.
1892: Her mother died of diphtheria.
1894: Her father died of alcoholism.
1899: She was sent to Allenswood Academy, an English finishing school where Headmistress Marie Souvestre became her mentor.
1903: Eleanor was engaged to Franklin Roosevelt.
1905: Eleanor married Franklin Roosevelt in New York City.
1906: Eleanor gave birth to daughter Anna.
1907: Eleanor gave birth to son, James.
1908: Eleanor gave birth to Franklin, Jr. who died of influenza the same year.
1912: Roosevelt attended her first Democratic Party convention.
1914: Eleanor gave birth to the second Franklin Jr.
1916: Eleanor gave birth to son, John.
1918: Eleanor discovered Franklin Roosevelt’s affair with her social secretary Lucy Mercer.
1919: Eleanor volunteered at St Elizabeth Hospital and visited World War I veterans. She worked as a translator at International Congress of Working Women.
1920: Eleanor campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt for his unsuccessful bid for the Vice-President’s post.
1921: Eleanor nursed her husband Franklin who was affected with polio.
1922: Eleanor joined the Women’s Trade Union League.
1932: Franklin Roosevelt won the US Presidential election. She said that the country should not expect the current First Lady to be a symbol of elegance but rather ‘plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt’.
1933:Eleanor became a First Lady. She became the 'firs't first lady to hold regular press conferences.
1935: Eleanor began a syndicated column, ‘My Day’. She wrote ‘A Trip To Washington with Bobby and Betty’. She toured the Ohio coal mine. She helped create the Federal Writers, Artists, Music and Theatre Projects and National Youth Administration.
1936: Eleanor chaired Washington Commission on Housing. She joined the American Newspaper Guild. Franklin Roosevelt won the second US presidential term.
1937: She supported the Spanish civil war in her speeches and columns. She wrote her autobiography ‘This Is My Story’, and a question and answer column 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt’. She lobbied for the Wagner-Stegall Act.
1938: Eleanor wrote ‘Tolerance’ and ‘This Troubled World’. She campaigned against the Polls Tax. She lobbied for the Wagner Health Bill. She convened a White House Conference on Participation of Negro Women and Children in Federal Welfare Programs.
1939: Eleanor addressed NAACP national convention in Richmond.
1940: She wrote ‘Women in Politics’ and ‘The Moral Basis of Democracy. She convened Hampton Institute Conference on the African Americans' role in the war effort.
1941: Eleanor and other Americans concerned about the threat to democracy established Freedom House. She began her third term as First Lady. She addressed the nation on the day Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese.
1942: Eleanor wrote ‘Race, Religion and Prejudice’. She met British leaders and Allied troops.
1943: She wrote ‘Abolish Jim Crow’. She opposed the Smith-Connally Act, calling it damaging to labor. She visited seventeen South Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand to boost troop morale.
1944: Eleanor wrote ‘How To Take Criticism'. She opened White House Conference on How Women May Share in Post-War Policy-making.
1945: Eleanor’s Husband Franklin died in Georgia. She addressed the nation on V-J day.
1946: US President Truman appointed Eleanor as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.
1947: Eleanor began the work of drafting the Declaration of Human Rights.
1948: Eleanor disagreed with State Department policy towards Russia.
1949: Eleanor criticized Taft-Hartley Restrictions.
1950: Eleanor began an NBC television and radio show.
1951: Eleanor opposed Senator McCarthy.
1952: Eleanor spoke to UN on political rights for women.
1953: Eleanor resigned from her UN post.
1954: Eleanor opposed Communist Control Act.
1955: Eleanor attended World Federation of United Nations Associations Conference.
1956: Eleanor supported the Powell Amendment denying federal funds for construction of segregated schools.
1957: Eleanor traveled to the Soviet Union for the New York Post and interviewed Nikita Khrushchev.
1958: Eleanor helped launch New York Committee for Democratic voters.
1959: Eleanor testified before Congress in support of minimum wage.
1960: Eleanor campaigned for John F Kennedy’s Presidential bid.
1961: Eleanor chaired President's Commission on the Status of Women.
1962: Eleanor died of tuberculosis and heart failure in New York City.