Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City, New York and lived till November 7, 1962. She was positioned as the First Lady of the United States in the span between 1933 to 1945.
She stood for the New Deal policies of her husband namely President Franklin D. Roosevelt and also advocated for civil rights. Even after the loss of her husband in the year 1945, she remained popular on the international scenario as the author and speaker working for the New Deal coalition.
Eleanor Roosevelt also made contributions towards the improvement of the status of the working class of women and came up with opposition for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Eleanor Roosevelt was also regarded as one among the co-founders of Freedom House during the 1940s and also stood for forming the United Nations. She also laid the foundation of the UN Association of the United States in 1943 for the purpose of giving out assistance for the making of the UN. She got appointment by President Harry S. Truman to work as a delegate to the UN General Assembly in between 1945 and 1952 and the confirmation was given out by the United States Senate.
While in the United Nations she was at the chair of the committee which looked for the drafting as well as approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman in order to pay his tribute for her achievements in the field of human rights named her as "First Lady of the World".
Eleanor Roosevelt actively participated in politics and also chaired the ground-breaking committee of John F. Kennedy administration that worked towards the initialization of second-wave feminism, which was the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
As per the Gallup's List of Widely Admired People, she was the most popular person belonging to the 20th century. She was the daughter of Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Hall Roosevelt. She also had membership of the Brandeis University Board of Trustees and gave the first commencement speech of the university. Eleanor Roosevelt became a part of the Brandeis faculty at the age of 75 in the form of a visiting lecturer in international relations in the year 1959.
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