Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney
Betsey Roosevelt Whitney (May 18, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland – March 25, 1998, Manhasset, New York), was an American philanthropist, the ex-wife of James Roosevelt (the eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt), and later wife of American millionaire and U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, John Hay Whitney.
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