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Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husbands death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition.

Even at 14, Roosevelt understood that ones prospects in life were not totally dependent on physical beauty, writing wistfully that no matter how plain a woman may be if truth and loyalty are stamped upon her face all will be attracted to her.

Roosevelt was tutored privately and, at the age of 15, with the encouragement of her fathers sister, her aunt Bamie, the family decided to send her to Allenswood Academy, a private finishing school outside London, England. The headmistress, Marie Souvestre, was a noted feminist educator who sought to cultivate independent thinking in the young women in her charge. Eleanor learned to speak French fluently and gained self-confidence. Her first-cousin Corinne Robinson, whose first term at Allenswood overlapped with Eleanors last, said that when she arrived at the school, Eleanor was everything. She would later study at The New School in the 1920s.

In 1902 at age 17, Roosevelt returned to the United States, ending her formal education. On December 14, 1902, Roosevelt was presented at a debutante ball at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. She was later given a debutante party. As a member of The New York Junior League, she volunteered as a social worker in the East Side slums of New York. Roosevelt was among the Leagues earliest members, having been introduced to the organization by

her friend, and organization founder, Mary Harriman.