Eleanor Roosevelt
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United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly
In office 31 December 1946 – 31 December 1952
President	Harry S. Truman
President and Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
In office 1946 – 1952
Preceded by	New Position
Succeeded by	Charles Malik
Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
In office 1961 – 1962
President	John F. Kennedy
Preceded by	New Office
Succeeded by	Commission work taken over by Esther Peterson after Commissioner Roosevelt's death
First Lady of the United States
In office March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
Preceded by	Lou Henry Hoover
Succeeded by	Elizabeth "Bess" Wallace Truman
Born	October 11, 1884(1884-10-11) New York, New York
Died	November 7, 1962 (aged 78) New York, New York
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Children	Anna Eleanor, James, Elliott, Franklin, John
Residence	Geneva
Occupation	First Lady, diplomat, activist
Religion	Episcopal

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (IPA: /ˈɛlɨnɔr ˈroʊzɨvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.

In the 1940s, she was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

Active in politics for the rest of her life, she chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's ground-breaking committee which help start second-wave feminism, the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. She was one of the most admired persons of the 20th century, according to Gallup's List of Widely Admired People.