The Roosevelt family is a prominent American business and political family whose members include United States Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The Roosevelts were among the earliest to settle in the Dutch colonial settlement of New Amsterdam, in what would later become New York.
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“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
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