Curtis Roosevelt Curtis Roosevelt Curtis Roosevelt Dall (April 19, 1930–September 26, 2016) was an American writer. Roosevelt was the son of Anna Roosevelt and her first husband, Curtis Bean Dall. He was the eldest grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Dall was born on April 19, 1930, in New York City. When he was three, Curtis, his sister Eleanor, and his mother moved into the White House, where they lived until his mother remarried in 1935. Curtis was often referred to as "Buzzie" in 1930s newspapers. After his parents' 1934 divorce, his mother married journalist Clarence John
Eleanor Roosevelt 181 acres (0.73 km2), was formally designated by an act of Congress as the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, "to commemorate for the education, inspiration, and benefit of present and future generations the life and work of an outstanding woman in American history." Roosevelt became First Lady of the United States when Franklin was inaugurated on March 4, 1933. Having known all of the twentieth century's previous First Ladies, she was seriously depressed at having to assume the role, which had traditionally been restricted to domesticity and hostessing. Her immediate predecessor, Lou Henry Hoover, had ended her feminist activism on