Nicholas Roosevelt (June 12, 1893 – February 1982)

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, SSN:084-09-5009. was an American diplomat and journalist. A member of the Roosevelt family and first-cousin once removed of U.S. President

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26t ...

, he was born in New York City to James West Roosevelt, a brother of Hilborne Roosevelt, and Laura Henrietta d'Oremieulx. Brought up in

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, he graduated from

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in 1914. He was an attaché at the American Embassy in Paris, secretary to the American mission to Spain in 1916 and 17, vice-governor of the Philippine Islands in 1930, and U.S. minister to

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from 1930 to 1933. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a writer for its journal '' Foreign Affairs'', and a foreign correspondent and editorial writer for the

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and New York Herald Tribune from 1921 to 1946. A prolific author, his autobiography, ''A Front Row Seat'' (1953), offers a critical view of

Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...

, a distant cousin, and an inside view of the New York Times. ''Theodore Roosevelt'' (1967) drew on Nicholas Roosevelt's unique childhood recollections, his father having been a close friend of Theodore. He was married to Tirzah Gates, the daughter of California State Senator Egbert Gates. Her sister, Dorothy Gates, was the first wife of eminent astrophysicist

Fritz Zwicky Fritz Zwicky (; ; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical an ...

. He remained lifelong friends with Fritz Zwicky. He lived in Big Sur, California in later life.

Works

*''The Philippines: A Treasure and a Problem'' (1926) *''The Restless Pacific'' (1928) *''America and England?'' (1930) *''The Townsend Plan: Taxing for Sixty'' (1936) (with Francis Everett Townsend) *''A New Birth of Freedom'' (1938) *''Wanted: Good Neighbors: The Need for Closer Ties with Latin America'' (1939) *''Venezuela's Place in the Sun: Modernizing a Pioneering Country'' (1940) *''A Front Row Seat'' (1953) *''Creative Cooking'' (1956) *''Good Cooking'' (1959) *''Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew Him'' (1967) *''Conservation: Now or Never'' (1970)

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* 1893 births 1982 deaths American diplomats Nicholas Roosevelt (diplomat) Schuyler family Harvard University alumni Writers from New York City People from Oyster Bay (town), New York {{US-diplomat-stub