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Eleanor Roosevelt MOST READ
Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements. Roosevelt was a member of the prominent American Roosevelt and Livingston families and a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. At 15, she attended Allenwood Academy in London and was deeply influenced by its headmistress Marie Souvestre. Returning to the U. The Roosevelts' marriage was complicated from the beginning by Franklin's controlling mother, Sara , and after Eleanor discovered her husband's affair with Lucy Mercer in , she resolved to seek fulfillment in a public life of her own.