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Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 - October 27, 1990) was an United States Army Air Force officer and an author. He was also the son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He had a varied career in communications, politics and business. Early life Elliott Roosevelt was the fourth of Franklin and Eleanor's six children, their third child having died in infancy about a year before Elliott's birth. He was named after his grandfather, Elliott Roosevelt. His siblings who reached adulthood were: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (later Dall, Boettiger, Halsted) James Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt John Aspinwall Roosevelt During World War II, he accompanied FDR as a Military attaché to the Casablanca meeting and the subsequent Cairo and Tehran Conferences. At the Tehran Conference, Elliott Roosevelt, apparently under the influence of alcohol, sided with his father in approving of large-scale executions of German POWs by the Soviets. Military Service Elliott Roosevelt was a pilot in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. He commanded the following units: 3d Reconnaissance Group, 11 July-13 August 1942; 30 Sep 1942-1 Mar 1943 (Major/Lt. Colonel) Assigned to Twelfth Air Force and flew P-38 Lightning (F-5) photographic reconnaissance missions during the North Africa campaign in Algeria and Tunisia 90th Reconnaissance Wing , 22 Nov 1943-25 Jan 1944 (Colonel) Assigned to Twelfth Air Force, command and control organization that provided photographic reconnaissance to both Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces. Operationally controlled both 3d and 5th Reconnaissance Groups in Tunisia. The 90th's subordinate units reconnoitered airdromes, roads, marshalling yards, and harbors in Italy after the Allied landings at Salerno. 325th Reconnaissance Wing , 9 Aug 1944-17 Jan 1945; 22 Jan-13 Apr 1945 (Colonel/Brigadier General) Assigned to Eighth Air Force, command and control organization that through subordinate units, flew reconnaissance over the waters adjacent to the British Islands and the European continent to obtain meteorological data. Wing aircraft collected weather information needed in planning operations; flew night photographic missions to detect enemy activity; and provided daylight photographic and mapping missions. The wing also flew photographic missions over the Netherlands in support of Operation Market Garden in Sep 1944 and operated closely with tactical units in the Battle of the Bulge (Dec 1944-Feb 1945). Roosevelt flew 300 combat missions. His decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross. As a chase pilot for the Operation Aphrodite flights in 1944, he witnessed the death of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. over Blythburgh, England. Later life Elliott pursued many different careers during his life, including owning a radio station in Texas, living as a rancher, and for a term in the 1960s as the mayor of Miami Beach, Florida. As Elliott approached his eightieth year of age, his final ambition was to "outlive James." However, Elliott Roosevelt died at age 80 of congestive heart failure. His brother James Roosevelt survived Elliott by one year. Author and biographer He was also the author of numerous books, including a bestselling mystery series in which his mother, Eleanor Roosevelt, is the detective. Elliott described his experiences with his father during the war years in his book As He Saw It. Together with James Brough, Elliott wrote a highly personal book about his parents called The Roosevelts of Hyde Park: An Untold Story where he reveals details about the sexual lives of his parents, including his father's unique relationships with mistress Lucy Mercer and secretary Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand as well as graphic details surrounding the illness that crippled his father. The biography also contains valuable insights into Roosevelt's run for vice-president, rise to the governorship of New York, and his capture of the presidency in 1932, particularly with the help of Louis Howe. Marriages and children Elliott Roosevelt was married five times: On January 16, 1932 he married Elizabeth Browning Donner, daughter of William Henry Donner. They had one son, William Donner Roosevelt, in 1932. The marriage ended in divorce in 1933. She died in 1980. On July 22, 1933, in Burlington, Iowa, he married Ruth Josephine Googins. They had three children: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt (b. 1934), Elliott "Tony" Roosevelt Jr. (b. 1936), and David Boynton Roosevelt (b. 1942). Elliott and Ruth were divorced in March 1944. Ruth Googins Roosevelt Eidson died in 1974. On December 3, 1944, at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, he married actress Faye Emerson. They were divorced on January 17, 1950. She died of stomach cancer in 1983 in Spain. On March 15, 1951, at Miami Beach, Florida, he married Minnewa Bell Gray Burnside Ross. They were divorced in 1960. Minnewa died in 1983. On November 3, 1960, at Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, 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. The couple's only child together, Livingston Delano Roosevelt, died in 1962 as an infant. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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