Franklin
Roosevelt
Jr., the son of Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Eleanor
Roosevelt,
and brother of James Roosevelt, was
born in Campobello, New Brunswick, Canada,
on 17th August, 1914. He studied at Harvard
University and after graduating from the University of Virginia
Law School in 1940, was admitted to the bar.
During
the Second World War Roosevelt was an ensign
in the United
States Navy and
served in North Africa, Europe and the Pacific.
In
1947 President Harry
S. Truman appointed
Roosevelt as vice president of the Committee
on Civil Rights. He also served as chairman of the mayor's committee
on unity in New York City (1947-48).
A member of the Democratic
Party he was
elected to the House of Representatives and served between 17th May,
1949 to 3rd January, 1955. After leaving Congress he worked as a lawyer
in New York.
In 1963 President John
F. Kennedy appointed
him as chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission and as Undersecretary
of Commerce. Two years later, President Lyndon
B. Johnson, selected
Roosevelt to become the first chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission. Franklin
Roosevelt
Jr. died in Ploughkeepsie
on 17th August, 1988.
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