Marriages and Children
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. Their son died in 2003.
- On July 22, 1933, in Burlington, Iowa, he married Ruth Josephine Googins (Ruth G. Eidson). They had three children: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt (Lindsley) (b. 1934), Elliott "Tony" Roosevelt Jr. (b. 1936), and David Boynton Roosevelt (b. 1942). Roosevelt 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.
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