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Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
	Roosevelt c. 1932
Born	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; May 3, 1906; New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	December 1, 1975 (aged 69); New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting place	St. James Episcopal Churchyard, ; Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Writer; editor; socialite;
Spouses	; Curtis Bean Dall (m. 1926; div. 1934) ; Clarence John Boettiger (m. 1935; div. 1949) ; James Addison Halsted (m. 1952)
Children	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall; Curtis Roosevelt Dall; John Roosevelt Boettiger;
Parents	Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt;
Relatives	Roosevelt family

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975) was an American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations. Halsted also wrote two children's books published in the 1930s. She was the eldest child and only daughter of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Halsted assisted her father as his advisor during World War II.^[1]

She worked with her second husband Clarence John Boettiger at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, serving as editor of the women's pages for several years. Halsted later worked in public relations for universities. In 1963, John F. Kennedy appointed her to the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women. She also served for several years as vice-chairman of the President's Commission for the Observance of Human Rights.^[1]

Biography

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt with Anna at Campobello (1907)

Franklin, Anna and Eleanor Roosevelt during his 1932 presidential campaign

Anna Dall and her children Sistie and Buzzie with FDR and Sara Delano Roosevelt (1932)

Anna Boettiger with her son John Roosevelt Boettiger and her mother Eleanor (1939)

Anna Boettiger, Sarah Churchill, FDR and Winston Churchill aboard the USS Quincy before the Yalta Conference (1945)

Anna Halsted with Eleanor Roosevelt at Syracuse University (1956)

Early life and marriages

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Jr. was born at 125 East 36th Street in New York City. She was named for her mother, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, and maternal grandmother, Anna Rebecca Hall. She graduated from Miss Chapin's School in 1924. She then entered Cornell University for a short course in forestry.^[2] On June 5, 1926, she married Curtis Bean Dall, a New York stockbroker, in Hyde Park, New York. They had two children, Anna Eleanor, born March 25, 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt, born April 19, 1930. The Dalls were divorced in July 1934, and Anna returned to her family, living in the White House. She then married Clarence John Boettiger, a journalist she met on her father's campaign train, in March 1935. They had one son, John Roosevelt Boettiger, born March 30, 1939.^[3]

Early career

Anna was active as an editor and journalist. Between 1932 and 1934 she was associate editor of a magazine called Babies Just Babies; hosted a radio program sponsored by Best and Company Department Store; and contributed articles to Liberty magazine. She also wrote two children's books, Scamper and Scamper's Christmas. After her second marriage, she moved to Seattle with her husband, where he was hired by William Randolph Hearst to be the editor of the Seattle Post Intelligencer. From December 1936 to September 1943 they ran the newspaper. Anna was editor of the women's page and a columnist for the newspaper.^[4] In 1942, Clarence Boettiger became concerned he was not doing his part for the war effort. He was given a leave of absence by Hearst and was appointed a captain in the Army.^[4]

Work in the White House and the Yalta Conference

After her husband joined the Army, and at her ailing father's request, Anna moved into the White House with her five-year-old son in 1944. Among other duties, she often served as hostess of the White House due to her mother's preference for devoting her time to other political activities and worthy causes.^[5] She also served as an unofficial secretary to her father. Her responsibilities included answering mail, arranging appointments, and writing presidential speeches. She became alarmed at the obvious deterioration of the President's health and insisted on seeking the advice of a cardiologist. When he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, she was the only family member who was informed. She petitioned to be included in the Yalta Conference as his aide-de-camp, believing that she could best protect her father, seeing to it that he followed the doctor's orders of diet and rest. She attended the conference, along with Sarah Churchill, daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Kathy Harriman, daughter of W. Averell Harriman, Ambassador to Russia. The conference lasted from February 2, 1945, to February 11, 1945. Anna was important to Roosevelt both personally and as aide-de-camp.^[6]

Anna Boettiger was a witness to many historic moments, but she also carried the burden of dealing with some of the most intimate and painful decisions of her parents during their unconventional marriage.^[7] After her father's death, Anna had to tell her mother that FDR had been with his long-time mistress, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. In addition, she told her that Franklin had continued the relationship for decades, and people surrounding him had hidden it from Eleanor.^[6]

Subsequent career and marriage

After Roosevelt's death in April 1945, William Randolph Hearst no longer had reason to favor Boettiger and they had a falling out. Boettiger left the Seattle Post Intelligencer and he and Anna bought a weekly newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona. They renamed it the Arizona Times and had turned it into a daily paper by May 1947. However, they were attempting to turn it into a left-leaning newspaper in Arizona, and the paper failed. The failure left the Boettigers bankrupt and put a great strain on their marriage. They divorced August 1, 1949.^[1] For a year after her divorce, she and Eleanor collaborated on a joint radio show called the Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt Program. She also edited a magazine called The Woman and contributed a series of articles called My Life with F.D.R.^[4]

In 1952 she married Dr. James Halsted, a doctor who was employed by the Veteran's Administration. They moved to New York where she took up work in public relations for hospitals and medical centers. The Halsteds moved to the Imperial State of Iran, where Halsted helped establish the Pahlavi University Medical School. Anna worked there in public relations and administration. When they returned to the United States, Anna immersed herself in humanitarian work and contributed to the legacy of both her parents.^[6]

In October 1963, Anna was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women. In February of that year, she was appointed vice-chairman of the President's Commission for the Observance of Human Rights.^[2]

In 1971, the Halsteds retired to a cottage in Hillsdale, New York. Anna continued to be active in most of the same organizations until her death from throat cancer on December 1, 1975, aged 69, at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York.^[8]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Michaelis, David (2020). Eleanor (First Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-4391-9201-6. OCLC 1139765459.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b "Anna Roosevelt Halsted Papers, 1886–1976 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum". www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
^ "Roosevelt Genealogy". fdrlibrary.marist.edu. Archived from the original on May 29, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Goodwin, Doris Kearns (1994). No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-64240-5. OCLC 30736131.
^ "Let Ivanka Be First Lady". Politico. December 20, 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Katz, Catherine Grace (2020). The daughters of Yalta : the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans : a story of love and war. Boston. ISBN 978-0-358-11785-8. OCLC 1143823468.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Conant, Jennet (September 29, 2020). "THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Family, Love, and War". The New York Times. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
^ Krebs, Albin (December 2, 1975). "Anna Roosevelt Halsted, President's Daughter, Dies White House Assistant Went With Father to Yalta Meeting". The New York Times. p. 42. Retrieved April 20, 2016.

Bibliography

Asbell, Bernard: Mother and Daughter: the letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt. Fromm International, 1988

External links

[:0-1] Michaelis, David (2020). Eleanor (First Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-4391-9201-6. OCLC 1139765459.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[:3-2] "Anna Roosevelt Halsted Papers, 1886–1976 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum". www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu. Retrieved March 21, 2021.

[3] "Roosevelt Genealogy". fdrlibrary.marist.edu. Archived from the original on May 29, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2020.

[:1-4] Goodwin, Doris Kearns (1994). No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-64240-5. OCLC 30736131.

[5] "Let Ivanka Be First Lady". Politico. December 20, 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2018.

[:2-6] Katz, Catherine Grace (2020). The daughters of Yalta : the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans : a story of love and war. Boston. ISBN 978-0-358-11785-8. OCLC 1143823468.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[nytimes2020-7] Conant, Jennet (September 29, 2020). "THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Family, Love, and War". The New York Times. Retrieved September 29, 2020.

[8] Krebs, Albin (December 2, 1975). "Anna Roosevelt Halsted, President's Daughter, Dies White House Assistant Went With Father to Yalta Meeting". The New York Times. p. 42. Retrieved April 20, 2016.

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+* {{marriage|[[Curtis Bean Dall]]|1926|1934|end=div}}
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-'''Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted''' (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975) was an American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations. She was the eldest child and only daughter of the [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and assisted him in social and administrative duties at the White House. She wrote two children's books published in the 1930s.
+'''Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted''' (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975) was an American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations. Halsted also wrote two children's books published in the 1930s. She was the eldest child and only daughter of [[President of the United States|U.S. president]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and First Lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]. Halsted assisted her father as his advisor during World War II.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Michaelis|first=David|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1139765459|title=Eleanor|date=2020|isbn=978-1-4391-9201-6|edition=First Simon & Schuster hardcover|location=New York|oclc=1139765459}}</ref>
-She worked with her second husband [[Clarence John Boettiger]] at the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'', serving as editor of the women's pages for several years. She later worked in public relations for universities. Beginning in 1963, she was appointed to presidential commissions by [[John F. Kennedy]], serving on the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women for several years, and as vice-chairman of the President's Commission for the Observance of Human Rights.
+She worked with her second husband [[Clarence John Boettiger]] at the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'', serving as editor of the women's pages for several years. Halsted later worked in public relations for universities. In 1963, [[John F. Kennedy]] appointed her to the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women. She also served for several years as vice-chairman of the President's Commission for the Observance of Human Rights.<ref name=":0" />
-==Biography==
+== Biography ==
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+| caption6  = Anna Halsted with Eleanor Roosevelt at [[Syracuse University]] (1956)
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-Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Jr., was born at 125 East 36th Street in [[New York City]]. She was named for her mother [[Eleanor Roosevelt|Anna Eleanor Roosevelt]] and maternal grandmother [[Anna Hall Roosevelt|Anna Rebecca Hall]]. She was married for the first time, in [[Hyde Park, New York]], on June 5, 1926 to stockbroker [[Curtis Bean Dall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/resources/genealogy.html|title=Roosevelt Genealogy|author=|date=|website=fdrlibrary.marist.edu|accessdate=23 March 2020}}</ref> The marriage soured before her father became president, and she chose to live in the White House with her parents.
-The couple had two children:
-*[[Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves|Anna Eleanor Roosevelt]] (born 1927), who became an educator and librarian
-*[[Curtis Roosevelt]] (1930–2016), who became a civil servant and author. They were often referred to as "Sistie" and "Buzzie" in the 1930s American press.
-Between 1932 and 1934, Anna was associate editor of a magazine called ''Babies Just Babies'' (her mother, Eleanor, also had ties to this publication); and she  contributed articles to ''Liberty'' magazine. She also wrote two children's books, ''Scamper'' and ''Scamper's Christmas''. She hosted a Best and Company department store. During this time, she began an affair with journalist [[Clarence John Boettiger]], who was also married.{{sfn|Goodwin|1994|p=181}}
-Anna and Curtis Bean Dall divorced on July 30, 1934 at [[Minden, Nevada]]. Six months later, on January 18, 1935, she married Boettiger, who had divorced his first wife. Her second husband had recently resigned from the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', and signed on with the [[Will H. Hays]] organization, the [[Motion Picture Association of America|Motion Picture Producers of America]].
-Boettiger was hired by [[William Randolph Hearst]] to take over as publisher of the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'' following a bitter labor dispute with its employees in 1936. Anna Boettiger was active as a writer and journalist. She served as editor of the [[women's page]] of that newspaper from 1936 until 1943.{{sfn|Goodwin|1994|p=181}} With her second husband, she had one son, [[John Roosevelt Boettiger]] (born March 30, 1939), who became an educator, clinical psychologist, and author.
-In 1943, her husband Clarence Boettiger began to suffer from serious [[depression (mood)|depression]]. After a casual remark by FDR about his son-in-law not being in uniform, Boettiger wrote to General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] for an officer's commission.{{sfn|Goodwin|1994|p=409&ndash;10}} Boettiger went into the service and left for the war. Anna suffered conflict with the new management of the ''Post-Intelligencer'' and left the paper as well.
-At her ailing father's request, Anna moved into the [[White House]] in 1944 to serve as [[First Lady]] because of her mother's preference for devoting her time to other political activities and worthy causes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/let-ivanka-trump-be-first-lady-214537|title=Let Ivanka Be First Lady|author=|date=|website=politico.com|accessdate=8 April 2018}}</ref> When President Roosevelt traveled to [[Yalta]] in February 1945 to meet [[Stalin]] and [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]], he selected Anna to accompany him. His son, Brig. Gen. [[Elliott Roosevelt]], who had attended the previous summits, had become politically controversial.<ref>Hansen, 419.</ref>
+=== Early life and marriages ===
-Anna Boettiger was a witness to many historic moments, but she also carried the burden of dealing with some of the most intimate and painful decisions of her parents during their unconventional marriage. After her father's death, Anna had to tell her mother that FDR had been with his long-time mistress, [[Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd]]; in addition, she told her that Franklin had continued the relationship for decades, and people surrounding him had hidden it from Eleanor. Her brother James later wrote that Anna had become estranged from Eleanor after taking over some of her social duties at the White House.<ref>Roosevelt, 305.</ref> The relationship was further strained because Eleanor desperately wanted to go with her husband to Yalta but he chose Anna. Yet after a few years, the two were able to reconcile and cooperate on numerous projects. Anna's relationship with her famously fractious brothers was also volatile. Anna took care of her mother when she was terminally ill in 1962.
+Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Jr.  was born at 125 East 36th Street in [[New York City]]. She was named for her mother, [[Eleanor Roosevelt|Anna Eleanor Roosevelt]], and maternal grandmother, [[Anna Hall Roosevelt|Anna Rebecca Hall]]. She graduated from [[Chapin School|Miss Chapin's School]] in 1924.  She then entered [[Cornell University]] for a short course in forestry.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Anna Roosevelt Halsted Papers, 1886–1976 {{!}} Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum|url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=156&q=&rootcontentid=39882|access-date=March 21, 2021|website=www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu|language=en}}</ref> On June 5, 1926, she married [[Curtis Bean Dall]], a New York stockbroker, in [[Hyde Park, New York]].  They had two children, [[Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves|Anna Eleanor]], born March 25, 1927, and [[Curtis Roosevelt]], born April 19, 1930.  The Dalls were divorced in July 1934, and Anna returned to her family, living in the White House. She then married [[Clarence John Boettiger]], a journalist she met on her father's campaign train, in March 1935.  They had one son, [[John Roosevelt Boettiger]], born March 30, 1939.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/resources/genealogy.html|title=Roosevelt Genealogy|website=fdrlibrary.marist.edu|access-date=March 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529045439/http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/resources/genealogy.html|archive-date=May 29, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
+=== Early career ===
-After her father's death, Anna and Clarence Boettiger bought a weekly newspaper in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] in 1946.{{sfn|Goodwin|1994|p=635}} They renamed it as the ''Arizona Times'', turning it into a daily paper by May 1947. Anna was an executive editor and columnist until February 1948, when she became editor and publisher. For various reasons including newsprint shortages, the project turned into a costly failure. This soured the Boettigers' relationship with wealthy Democratic investors led by Walter Kirschner.
+Anna was active as an editor and journalist.  Between 1932 and 1934 she was associate editor of a magazine called ''Babies Just Babies;'' hosted a radio program sponsored by Best and Company Department Store; and contributed articles to ''Liberty'' magazine. She also wrote two children's books, ''Scamper'' and ''Scamper's Christmas''.   After her second marriage, she moved to Seattle with her husband, where he was hired by [[William Randolph Hearst]] to be the editor of the ''Seattle Post Intelligencer.''  From December 1936 to September 1943 they ran the newspaper.  Anna was editor of the women's page and a columnist for the newspaper.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Goodwin|first=Doris Kearns|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30736131|title=No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II|date=1994|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-671-64240-5|location=New York|oclc=30736131}}</ref>  In 1942, Clarence Boettiger became concerned he was not doing his part for the war effort.  He was given a leave of absence by Hearst and was appointed a captain in the Army.<ref name=":1" />
+=== Work in the White House and the Yalta Conference ===
-The paper was sold in July. In September 1948, Anna launched a radio program with her mother, called the ''Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt Program'', which was canceled in September 1949. In 1949, Anna Boettiger edited the monthly magazine ''The Woman'', and contributed a series of articles called ''My Life with F.D.R.''
+After her husband joined the Army, and at her ailing father's request, Anna moved into the [[White House]] with her five-year-old son in 1944.  Among other duties,  she often served as hostess of the White House due to her mother's preference for devoting her time to other political activities and worthy causes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/let-ivanka-trump-be-first-lady-214537|title=Let Ivanka Be First Lady|website=Politico|date=December 20, 2016 |access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref> She also served as an unofficial secretary to her father.  Her responsibilities included answering mail, arranging appointments, and writing presidential speeches.  She became alarmed at the obvious deterioration of the President's health and insisted on seeking the advice of a cardiologist.  When he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, she was the only family member who was informed.  She petitioned to be included in the [[Yalta Conference]] as his aide-de-camp, believing that she could best protect her father, seeing to it that he followed the doctor's orders of diet and rest. She attended the conference, along with [[Sarah Churchill (actress)|Sarah Churchill]], daughter of [[Prime Minister Winston Churchill]], and [[Kathleen Harriman Mortimer|Kathy Harriman]], daughter of [[W. Averell Harriman]], Ambassador to Russia.  The conference lasted from February 2, 1945, to February 11, 1945.  Anna was important to Roosevelt both personally and as aide-de-camp.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Katz|first=Catherine Grace|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1143823468|title=The daughters of Yalta : the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans : a story of love and war|date=2020|isbn=978-0-358-11785-8|location=Boston|oclc=1143823468}}</ref>
+Anna Boettiger was a witness to many historic moments, but she also carried the burden of dealing with some of the most intimate and painful decisions of her parents during their unconventional marriage.<ref name=nytimes2020>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/books/review/the-daughters-of-yalta-catherine-grace-katz.html|title= THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Family, Love, and War|first=Jennet|last=Conant|date=September 29, 2020|access-date=September 29, 2020}}</ref> After her father's death, Anna had to tell her mother that FDR had been with his long-time mistress, [[Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd]]. In addition, she told her that Franklin had continued the relationship for decades, and people surrounding him had hidden it from Eleanor.<ref name=":2" />
-Anna divorced Boettiger in 1949. Suffering from depression, he committed [[suicide]] in 1950 by jumping from a hotel window in [[New York City]].{{sfn|Goodwin|1994|p=635}}
+=== Subsequent career and marriage ===
-Anna Boettiger married James Addison Halsted, a physician with the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs|Veterans Administration]], on November 11, 1952.{{sfn|Goodwin|1994|p=635}} She contracted [[coccidiomycosis]] and spent the next several years recovering.
+After Roosevelt's death in April 1945,  William Randolph Hearst no longer had reason to favor Boettiger and they had a falling out.  Boettiger left the ''Seattle Post Intelligencer'' and he and Anna bought a weekly newspaper in  Phoenix, Arizona.  They renamed it the ''Arizona Times'' and had turned it into a daily paper by May 1947. However, they were attempting to turn it into a left-leaning newspaper in Arizona, and the paper failed.  The failure left the Boettigers bankrupt and put a great strain on their marriage.  They divorced August 1, 1949.<ref name=":0" />  For a year after her divorce, she and Eleanor collaborated on a joint radio show called the ''Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt Program''.   She also edited a magazine called ''The Woman'' and contributed a series of articles called ''My Life with F.D.R.''<ref name=":1" />
-She began to work in the public relations field for labor unions. In the fall of 1954, she attended [[University of California, Los Angeles]] School of Social Work. In 1955, she and her husband moved to [[Syracuse, New York]], where she was hired as the assistant to the Director of Public Relations at the State University Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. In April 1957, she became the Director of Public Relations and Assistant to the Dean, and held this position until September 1958.
-The Halsteds moved to [[Iran]], where  Halsted helped establish the [[Shiraz University of Medical Sciences|Pahlavi University Medical School]]. Anna worked there in public relations and administration. In 1960, the Halsteds moved to [[Lexington, Kentucky]] and Anna worked as a staff assistant to the Dean of the University of Kentucky Medical Center. In 1961, the Halsteds moved to [[Birmingham, Michigan]], where Anna became the public relations director and coordinator at Metropolitan Hospital for the Comprehensive Medical Care Program sponsored by the [[United Auto Workers]]. In 1963, she became the Director of Public Relations for the [[Wayne State University]] School of Medicine, in Detroit.
+In 1952 she married Dr. James Halsted, a doctor who was employed by the Veteran's Administration.  They moved to New York where she took up work in public relations for hospitals and medical centers.  The Halsteds moved to the [[Pahlavi Iran|Imperial State of Iran]], where  Halsted helped establish the [[Shiraz University of Medical Sciences|Pahlavi University Medical School]]. Anna worked there in public relations and administration. When they returned to the United States, Anna immersed herself in humanitarian work and contributed to the legacy of both her parents.<ref name=":2" />
-In October, 1963, Anna was appointed by President [[John F. Kennedy]] to the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women, and worked on the council until her resignation in 1968. In February of that year, she was appointed vice-chairman of the President's Commission for the Observance of Human Rights. The Halsteds relocated to [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1964. While living there, Anna became involved in the Washington Work and Training Opportunity Center, [[Americans for Democratic Action]], the Capitol Area Division of the United Nations Association of the United States of America, the National Committee of Household Employment, the Wiltwyck School, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation.
+In October 1963, Anna was appointed by President [[John F. Kennedy]] to the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women.  In February of that year, she was appointed vice-chairman of the President's Commission for the Observance of Human Rights.<ref name=":3" />
-In 1971, the Halsteds retired to a cottage in [[Hillsdale, New York]]. Anna continued to be active in most of the same organizations until her death from [[Esophageal cancer|throat cancer]] on December 1, 1975, aged 69, at [[Montefiore Medical Center|Montefiore Hospital]] in [[the Bronx, New York]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Krebs|first1=Albin|title=Anna Roosevelt Halsted, President's Daughter, Dies White House Assistant Went With Father to Yalta Meeting|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/12/02/78270832.html?pageNumber=42|accessdate=20 April 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 2, 1975|page=42}}</ref> She was interred at Saint James Episcopal Church Cemetery in [[Hyde Park, New York]], where many members of the Roosevelt family are buried.
+In 1971, the Halsteds retired to a cottage in [[Hillsdale, New York]]. Anna continued to be active in most of the same organizations until her death from [[Esophageal cancer|throat cancer]] on December 1, 1975, aged 69, at [[Montefiore Medical Center|Montefiore Hospital]] in [[the Bronx, New York]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Krebs|first1=Albin|title=Anna Roosevelt Halsted, President's Daughter, Dies White House Assistant Went With Father to Yalta Meeting|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/12/02/78270832.html?pageNumber=42|access-date=April 20, 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 2, 1975|page=42}}</ref>
-==Resources==
+==See also==
+*''[[The Daughters of Yalta]]'' (2020) book
-*[http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/halstead-anna.htm National Park Service bio]
-*''Syracuse Herald'', Jan 18, 1935. p 11 "Anna Dall marries"
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+===Notes===
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-'''Bibliography'''
+===Bibliography===
+{{See also|Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt|Bibliography of Franklin D. Roosevelt}}
-*[http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/halstead-anna.htm National Park Service bio]
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-*''Syracuse Herald'', Jan 18, 1935. p 11 "Anna Dall marries"
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-* Roosevelt, James: ''My Parents, A Differing View''. Playboy Press, 1976
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-* Hansen, Chris: ''Enfant Terrible: The Times and Schemes of General Elliott Roosevelt''. Able Baker Press, 2012
 * Asbell, Bernard: ''Mother and Daughter: the letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt''. Fromm International, 1988
-*{{cite book |title=No Ordinary Time |last=Goodwin |first=Doris Kearns |year=1994 |publisher=Simon & Schuster|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQcMDdFC1QEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=doris+goodwin+eleanor&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X6auUMHwNO-_2QXCx4Bo&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=doris%20goodwin%20eleanor&f=false|isbn=9780684804484|ref=harv}}
 ==External links==
 {{Commons category|Anna Roosevelt Halsted}}
 *{{Find a Grave|8628}}
-*[https://www.archives.gov/research/accessions/ 4th Quarter 2007] The Franklin D Roosevelt Library at [[NARA]] has recently "...received correspondence between Curtis B. Dall, Anna Roosevelt's first husband, and the Roosevelt family, donated by his daughter Mary Dall Twichell...."
 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060823012204/http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_health_mh_recguide.shtml The New York State Archives has {{convert|34|ft|m}} of the Anna Roosevelt papers]
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v t e Eleanor Roosevelt
Chairwoman, Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (1961–1962) 34th First Lady of the United States (1933–1945)
United Nations	United States delegate, United Nations General Assembly (1946–1952) United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1947–1953, Chairperson 1946–1951) Universal Declaration of Human Rights Drafting committee Human Rights Day
First Lady of the United States	"My Day" daily newspaper column, 1935–1962 Co-Chair, Office of Civilian Defense Marian Anderson Lincoln Memorial Concert Tuskegee Airmen flight Arthurdale and Eleanor, West Virginia American Youth Congress National Youth Administration Black Cabinet 1940 Democratic National Convention speech Women in Defense Freedom House
Other events	First Lady of New York Presidential Commission on the Status of Women National Organization for Women Encampment for Citizenship
Life and homes	Val-Kill National Historic Site Val-Kill Industries Campobello home Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness Hyde Park home and gravesite
Legacy	Roosevelt Institute Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Roosevelt Study Center Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights Statue at the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial Eleanor Roosevelt College USS Roosevelt Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939 film) Sunrise at Campobello (1958 play, 1960 film) The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965 film) Eleanor and Franklin (1971 biography) Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972 biography) Eleanor and Franklin (1976 film) Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977 film) Backstairs at the White House (1979 miniseries) The Roosevelts (2014 documentary) The First Lady (2022 TV series) FDR (2023 miniseries) The Six Triple Eight (2024 film)
Related	United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights International Bill of Human Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Morgenthau Plan Lorena Hickok
Roosevelt family	Franklin D. Roosevelt (husband presidency 1933–1941 presidency 1941–1945) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (daughter) James Roosevelt II (son) Elliott Roosevelt (son) Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (son) John Roosevelt II (son) Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (granddaughter) Curtis Roosevelt (grandson) Sara Delano Roosevelt (granddaughter) Franklin Delano Roosevelt III (grandson) John Roosevelt Boettiger (grandson) James Roosevelt III (grandson) Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (father) Anna Hall Roosevelt (mother) Hall Roosevelt (brother) Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (grandfather) Martha Stewart Bulloch (grandmother) Theodore Roosevelt (uncle presidency) Bamie Roosevelt (aunt) Fala (family dog)

v t e Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) 44th Governor of New York (1929–1932) Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1920) New York State Senator (1911–1913)
Presidency (timeline)	Transition Inaugurations (1st 2nd 3rd 4th) First and second terms Third and fourth terms Foreign policy New Deal overview New Deal coalition First 100 days Second New Deal Federal Emergency Relief Administration Civilian Conservation Corps Agricultural Adjustment Act Emergency Banking Act Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Tennessee Valley Authority National Labor Relations Act of 1935 National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 Public Works Administration National Recovery Administration Works Progress Administration National Youth Administration Social Security Act Aid to Families with Dependent Children Communications Act of 1934 Federal Communications Commission Securities and Exchange Commission Monetary gold ownership Gold Reserve Act Silver seizure Record on civil rights Defense industry non-discrimination Fair Employment Practice Committee Indian Reorganization Act Executive Orders 9066, 9102 War Relocation Authority Japanese American internment German-American internment Italian-American internment Brownlow Committee Executive Office of the President G.I. Bill of Rights Cullen–Harrison Act Roerich Pact Four Freedoms Four Freedoms Monument Black Cabinet Jefferson's Birthday holiday Jefferson Memorial Judicial Court-Packing Bill Cannabis policy Federal Judicial appointments Supreme Court Harlan F. Stone Supreme Court nomination Wiley Rutledge Supreme Court nomination Cabinet "Brain Trust" March of Dimes Modern Oval Office Official car Criticism Franksgiving Executive Orders Presidential Proclamations
Presidential foreign policy	Banana Wars U.S. occupation of Nicaragua, 1912–1933 U.S. occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934 Good Neighbor Policy (1933–1945) Montevideo Convention (1933) Second London Naval Treaty (1936) ABCD line (1940) Export Control Act Four Policemen Destroyers-for-bases deal Lend-Lease 1940 Selective Service Act Hull note Atlantic Charter (1941) Military history of the United States during World War II Home front during World War II Combined Munitions Assignments Board War Production Board Declaration by United Nations (1942) Dumbarton Oaks Conference World War II conferences Quebec Agreement Europe first Morgenthau Plan support
Presidential speeches	1932 Acceptance speech Commonwealth Club Address Madison Square Garden speech "Four Freedoms" Day of Infamy speech Arsenal of Democracy "...is fear itself" Fireside chats "Look to Norway" Quarantine Speech "The More Abundant Life" State of the Union Address (1934 1938 1939 1940 1941 (Four Freedoms) 1944 (Second Bill of Rights) 1945)
Other events	Early life, education, career Warm Springs Institute Governorship of New York Business Plot Assassination attempt
Elections	1928 New York state election 1930 Democratic National Convention, 1920 1924 1932 1936 1940 1944 1920 United States presidential election 1932 theme song 1936 1940 1944
Life and homes	Early life and education Groton School Springwood birthplace, home, and gravesite Adams House FDR Suite Campobello home Paralytic illness Top Cottage Little White House, Warm Springs, Georgia
Legacy	Bibliography Statues Presidential Library and Museum Roosevelt Institute Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Roosevelt Island Four Freedoms Park White House Roosevelt Room Roosevelt Institute for American Studies USS Franklin D. Roosevelt USS Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award Four Freedoms paintings Unfinished portrait U.S. Postage stamps Roosevelt dime I'd Rather Be Right 1937 musical Films The Roosevelt Story 1947 Sunrise at Campobello 1960 Eleanor and Franklin 1976, The White House Years 1977 Backstairs at the White House 1979 miniseries World War II: When Lions Roared 1997 miniseries Warm Springs 2005 Hyde Park on Hudson 2012 The Roosevelts 2014 documentary The First Lady 2022 miniseries FDR 2023 miniseries The Six Triple Eight 2024 film Other namesakes
Family (Roosevelt • Delano)	Eleanor Roosevelt (wife) Anna Roosevelt Halsted (daughter) James Roosevelt II (son) Elliott Roosevelt (son) Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (son) John Aspinwall Roosevelt II (son) James Roosevelt I (father) Sara Ann Delano (mother) James Roosevelt Roosevelt (half-brother) Isaac Roosevelt (grandfather) Warren Delano Jr. (grandfather) Fala (family dog) Major (family dog)
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