James Roosevelt III (born November 9, 1945) is an American attorney, Democratic Party official, and a grandson of U.S. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served ...

and

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. As of 2021, he is the co-chair of the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the

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, a position he has held since 1995.

Early life

Roosevelt was born on November 9, 1945, to Representative James Roosevelt II (1907–1991) and Romelle Theresa Schneider (1915–2002). His two full siblings are Michael (born December 7, 1946) and Anna (born January 10, 1948). Through his father, he has two elder half-sisters

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(1932 - 2021) and Kate (1936 - 2002), a younger half-brother Hall (born 1959), and a younger half-sister Rebecca (born 1971). His paternal grandparents were President

(1882–1945) and First Lady

(1884–1962). Roosevelt graduated from La Salle High School in

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in 1963. He earned his A.B. with honors in government from

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in 1968, his J.D. from

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in 1971 and later attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at

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Career

On June 12, 1968, following his graduation from Harvard, he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve and rose to the rank of lieutenant on July 1, 1971. After obtaining his J.D. from Harvard Law, Roosevelt spent 10 years as partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart in

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. Roosevelt was the associate commissioner for Retirement Policy for the

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before joining Tufts Health Plan in 1999 as senior vice president and general counsel. He held that position until June 2005, when he became president and chief executive officer of Tufts Health Plan. In 1986, he ran for Congress in

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, losing the Democratic primary to Joseph P. Kennedy II. He has also served as chief legal counsel for the

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. He is past chairman of the board of trustees for the Massachusetts Hospital Association, past president of the American Health Lawyers Association and past chairman of the board of trustees for Mount Auburn Hospital. Currently, Roosevelt serves as chairman of the board of directors for Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, and as a member of the boards at America's Health Insurance Plans, Catholic Democrats, Emmanuel College, and the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center. He was called upon in 2008 to oversee hearings on controversies related to seating delegates from

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and

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to the

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. Roosevelt was described as "detail-oriented," and as having great "institutional knowledge." He had not publicly endorsed either

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before the committee meeting.

Personal life

On June 15, 1968, Roosevelt married Ann Martha Conlon. Together, they have three daughters: * Kathleen Ann Roosevelt (born 1978), a

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graduate who married Jeffrey Walker in 2007. * Theresa Marie "Tracy" Roosevelt (born 1982), a

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graduate who married Robert O'Loughlin in 2016. * Maura Amy Roosevelt (born 1984), a

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graduate who married Joshua Fisher in 2014.

References

External links

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