Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (1879 - 1936)

Born 3 Oct 1879 in Morristown, Morris, NJ

Ancestors

Husband of Julia Eleanor (Morrow) Roosevelt — married 15 Jan 1902 in San Rafael, Marin, California, United States

Died 22 Feb 1936 at age 56 in Washington, DC

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Biography

Birth

Date: 3/5 OCT 1879

Place: Morristown, Morris, NJ^[1][2]

Burial

Burial:

User ID: 52C87B3D9B0AA6E36D4BED9A4368B211

Record ID Number: MH:IF96988

Date: 25 FEB 1936

Place: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Fairfax, VA

Sources

1. ↑ "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCRY-Z8Z : 8 April 2016), Roosevelt, 03 Oct 1879; citing Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 494,190.
2. ↑ "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCKJ-W9C : 8 April 2016), Roosevelt, 05 Oct 1878; citing Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 494,187.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M31V-RKG : 25 January 2015), Henry L Roosevelt, Navy Yard, Mare Island Ward 1, Solano, California, United States; citing sheet 4A, family , NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,113.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVLD-67D : 29 October 2015), Henry L Roosevelt, San Rafael, Marin, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 48, sheet 10A, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,101.

Notes

Note N10747an Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy.

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A member of the Roosevelt family, he was born in Morristown, New Jersey, to Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt, who had a naval career of distinction and was a grandson of Nicholas Roosevelt, an inventor and land-owner. Roosevelt entered the United States Naval Academy in 1896 but did not graduate. He became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps, in which he served during the Spanish-American War.[1] He was at times stationed in Philadelphia, Panama, Cuba and Haiti. After retiring in 1920, he served as the European manager for the Radio Corporation of America from 1923 to 1928 and oversaw the building of large radio stations at Ankara, Turkey, and Warsaw, Poland.

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He returned to the United States in 1933 to head the Radio Real Estate Corporation, but was soon selected by Naval Secretary Claude A. Swanson for the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He became the fourth Roosevelt and fifth member of the Roosevelt family to occupy that office, after Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt (the current president at the time), Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. andTheodore Douglas Robinson. Due to Swanson's poor health, Roosevelt was at times Acting Secretary. He made many tours of inspection and speeches, calling for the strengthening of the navy as a deterrent to war.

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In 1902, he married Eleanor Morrow, daughter of California Circuit Judge W. W. Morrow. He had three children, William Morrow, Henry Latrobe, and Eleanor Katherine, who married Reverdy Wadsworth, son of U.S. Representative James W. Wadsworth, Jr. He died at Bethesda Naval Hospital of a heart attack following intestinal influenza.

Record ID Number: MH:N10858

PRIN MH:I14871