Roosevelt family
The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady,[1] and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. The progeny of a mid-17th century Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became nationally prominent in New York State and City politics and business and intermarried with prominent colonial families. Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to global political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore's niece. The Roosevelt family is one of four families to have produced two presidents of the United States by the same surname; the others were the Adams, Bush, and Harrison families.
This article is about the U.S. political family of Dutch origin. For the name Roosevelt, see Roosevelt (surname). For people named Roosevelt, see List of people with surname Roosevelt.Roosevelt
New York and New England
Rosevelt, van Rosenvelt, van Rosevelt
Sagamore Hill (Oyster Bay, New York)
Springwood (Hyde Park, New York)
17th century
Upon a torse argent and gules, Three ostrich plumes each per pale gules and argent.[3]
Argent upon a grassy mound a rose bush proper bearing three roses Gules barbed and seeded proper..[3]
Qui plantavit curabit ("He who planted [us] will care [for us]")
The mantling, gules doubled argent.[3]
The following is a list of companies in which the Roosevelt family have held a controlling or otherwise significant interest.