American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations. Halsted also wrote two children’s books published in the 1930s. She was the eldest child and only daughter of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and assisted him as his advisor during World War II.
Halsted worked with her second husband Clarence John Boettiger at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, serving as editor of the women’s pages for several years. She later worked in public relations for universities. In 1963, John F. Kennedy appointed her to the Citizen’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women. She also served for several years as vice-chairman of the President’s Commission for the Observance of Human Rights.
On 5 June 1926, she married Curtis Bean Dall, a New York stockbroker, in Hyde Park, New York. They had two children, Anna Eleanor, born 25 March 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt, born 19 April 1930. The Dalls were divorced in July 1934, and Anna returned to her family, living in the White House. She then married Clarence John Boettiger, a journalist she met on her father’s campaign train, in March 1935. They had one son, John Roosevelt Boettiger, born 30 March 1939, and divorced in 1949.
After two difficult marriages, she settled in upstate New York with her third husband Dr. James Halsted, where she lived quietly (by Roosevelt standards). Anna Roosevelt died of throat cancer on 1 December 1975 at age 69 in New York City.
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