Susan Roosevelt Weld is an American educator who is a former professor at
Harvard specializing in
ancient Chinese civilization and
law
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. She also was General Counsel to the
Congressional-Executive Commission on China
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) is an independent agency of the U.S. government which monitors human rights and rule of law developments in the People's Republic of China. It was created in October 2001 under Title III of ...
. She was the
First Lady of
Massachusetts
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from 1991 until 1997.
Career
Weld is currently an Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Law Asia Leadership program at
Georgetown University Law School
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. She serves on the Advisory Council of the
US-China Education Trust.
Personal life and ancestry
She is the daughter of
Quentin Roosevelt II
Quentin Roosevelt II (November 4, 1919 – December 21, 1948) was the fourth child and youngest son of Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III and Eleanor Butler Alexander. He was the namesake of his uncle Quentin Roosevelt I, who was killed in acti ...
, and Frances Blanche Webb, and granddaughter of
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., great-granddaughter of
Theodore Roosevelt
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. She is the grand-niece of
Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. A son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit graduated from Harvard College, served in both Wo ...
,
Quentin Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt I (November 19, 1897 – July 14, 1918) was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Roosevelt. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pu ...
,
Archibald Roosevelt
Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt (April 9, 1894 – October 13, 1979) was a distinguished U.S. Army officer and commander of U.S. forces in both World War I and II, and the fifth child of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. In both conflicts he w ...
,
Ethel Roosevelt Derby
Ethel Carow Derby ( Roosevelt; August 13, 1891 – December 10, 1977) was the youngest daughter and fourth child of the President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. Known as "The Queen" or "The First Lady of Oyster Bay" by its Long Island ...
and
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980) was an American writer and socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and his only child with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. L ...
.
She graduated from
Radcliffe College of
Harvard University
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in 1970, from
Harvard Law School in 1974, and from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
with a PhD, in 1990, in
East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
She was married to former
Massachusetts
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governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
William Weld from July 7, 1975 until she divorced him in 2002.
She is the mother of five children by Weld:
"The Weld's of Harvard Yard"
''Harvard Magazine'', Craig A. Lambert David Minot, Ethel Derby, Mary Blake, Quentin Roosevelt and Frances Wylie.
She is a second cousin of her former husband's opponent in the 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial race, Mark Roosevelt
Mark Roosevelt (born December 10, 1955) is an American academic administrator and politician serving as the seventh president of the Santa Fe campus of St. John's College. He was the President of Antioch College from January 2011 to December 2 ...
, grandson of her grandfather's brother Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. A son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit graduated from Harvard College, served in both Wo ...
.
Selected works
Books
*''Covenant in Jin's Walled Cities: The Discoveries at Houma and Wenxian,'' Harvard University Press, 1990.
References
See also
* Weld family
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Roosevelt family
Schuyler family
First Ladies and Gentlemen of Massachusetts
American people of Dutch descent
Harvard University faculty
Bulloch family
Radcliffe College alumni
Georgetown University Law Center faculty
Harvard Law School alumni