What Did Eleanor Roosevelt Do?

Eleanor Roosevelt, born in New York (October 11, 1884) and passed away in New York (November 7, 1962)

She served as First Lady of the United States during the term of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 to 1945. She was also the first First Lady to assemble her own press conference.

Other offices she held included being Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, President and Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and the country’s first delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.

For thirteen consecutive years, America voted her as the most admirable woman of the country. President Harry Truman also referred to her as the First Lady of the World in acknowledgment of her various accomplishments in the field of human rights, which continued on even after her husband’s death.