Early Years
Theodore Roosevelt, III, was born in New York City on June 14, 1914, the son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt, and a grandson of 26th US President, Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt. He was the second and the last surviving of four children born to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and Eleanor Butler; Grace Green Roosevelt, who married William McMillan, Ted, Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt II.
Following the Roosevelt family tradition, Theodore Roosevelt, III went to Groton School and graduated from Harvard in 1936, where he was a member of the Owl Club. Roosevelt worked for the DuPont company from 1936 to 1941.
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