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# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:49:34.003Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born October 11, 1884, into the prominent Roosevelt and Livingston families, a niece of Theodore Roosevelt, but her childhood was marked by the deaths of both parents and a brother. At 15 she studied at Allenswood Boarding Academy in London under the formative influence of its director Marie Souvestre. She married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905 and bore six children between 1906 and 1916, one dying in infancy. The marriage fractured in 1918 when she discovered Franklin's affair with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer; after mediation by her mother-in-law Sara, the affair ended officially, but both partners kept independent lives thereafter. Roosevelt joined the Women's Trade Union League and the New York state Democratic Party, and persuaded Franklin to remain in politics after paralytic illness struck him in 1921. When he became president in 1933, she redefined the role through relentless travel, public engagement, and outspoken advocacy—particularly for civil rights for African Americans—that made her controversial in the early White House years. Widowed in 1945, she served as a U.S. delegate to the 