Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Corinne Roosevelt (September 27, 1861 – February 17, 1933) was an American poet, writer and lecturer. She was also the younger sister of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and an aunt of future First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt. Corinne Roosevelt was born on September 27, 1861, at 28 East 20th Street in New York City, the fourth and youngest child of businessman/philanthropist Theodore "Thee" Roosevelt Sr. and socialite Martha Stewart "Mittie" Bulloch. Her siblings were Anna (called "Bamie" or "Bye"), Theodore Jr. (who became President), and Elliott (the father of future
Eleanor Roosevelt Army. [President] Roosevelt sent his wife." Also in 1933 after she became First Lady, a rose was discovered and named after Roosevelt, with the name Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Rosa x hybrida "Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt"). It is a hybrid tea rose. However, though this is true, there is no evidence to support the story that Roosevelt later quipped, "I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall". In 1937 she began writing