Theodore roosevelt family life

American business and political family

This article is about the U.S. political family of Dutch origin. For the name Roosevelt, see Roosevelt (name). For people named Roosevelt, see List of people with surname Roosevelt.

"Roosevelts" redirects here.

For the 2014 documentary, see The Roosevelts (miniseries).

The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady,^[1] 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 cous