John Aspinwall Roosevelt
| John Aspinwall Roosevelt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 13, 1916 Hyde Park, New York, United States |
| Died | April 27, 1981 (aged 65) New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | U.S. Navy Officer, Businessman |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Lindsay Clark (b. 1916 d. 1973) Irene Boyd McAlpin |
| Children | Haven, Anne, Sara, and Joan |
| Parent(s) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Relatives | See Roosevelt family |
John Aspinwall Roosevelt (March 13, 1916 – April 27, 1981) was an American and the sixth and last child of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the only Roosevelt son who never sought political office.
John Roosevelt was the youngest child of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. His siblings were Anna E. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.. Roosevelt grew up on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York and attended preparatory schools The Buckley School and Groton School.
Roosevelt and his next oldest sibling, Franklin Jr., were much closer to their mother than the three older Roosevelt children had been. This was in part because by the time they were born, she was more comfortable in her role as a parent. However, others contend that as a result of his father's disability, "John had grown up with less emotional connection with his parents than any of the others."
By family consensus, Roosevelt was the son least like his father, which reflected itself politically as well as in many other aspects. James Roosevelt wrote that he "had the smoothest, least exciting life of all of us." "The youngest, he was also the least close to father." And, he was "the most thoughtful and businesslike of us."
He was five years old, when his father Franklin Roosevelt contracted polio which confined him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Conscious of her husband's disability and determined that the younger children should not miss out on the sports and physical activities that their older siblings had enjoyed, Eleanor Roosevelt learned to swim and skate. She also took John and Franklin Jr. camping and to Europe. In 1937, John Roosevelt was involved in a drunken brawl and an attack on the mayor in Cannes that made headlines across the world.
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