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| Current region | New York and New England |
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| Earlier spellings | Rosevelt, van Rosenvelt, van Rosevelt |
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| Etymology | Dutch for "Rose field" |
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| Place of origin | Dutch American Community, English American Community—Netherlands, United Kingdom (England), United States (New York) |
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| Titles |
- President of the United States
- First Lady of the United States
- United States Vice President
- Second Lady of the United States
- Delegate to the United Nations
- Governor (of New York, Puerto Rico)
- Governor-General of the Philippines
- Archbishop of Baltimore (Bishop of Newark)
- United States Under Secretary of Commerce
- Assistant Secretary of the Navy
- Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (from New York, California)
- Member of Parliament (from the United Kingdom)
- State Representative (from Massachusetts, New York)
- Secretary of Commerce of Pennsylvania
- First Lady of New York
- Mayor (of Miami Beach, Florida, New York City)
- First Lady (from Farmington, Connecticut, New York City, Miami Beach, Florida)
- Long Beach, California City Councilmember
- International Olympic Committee Member
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| Estate(s) | Sagamore Hill (Oyster Bay, New York) Springwood (Hyde Park, New York) |
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The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. The progeny of a mid-17th-century Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became nationally prominent in New York State and City politics and business and intermarried with prominent colonial families. Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to global political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore's niece. The Roosevelt family is one of four families to have produced two presidents of the United States by the same surname; the others were the Adams, Bush, and Harrison families.