(1884 – 1962) Patrician by birth and marriage, Roosevelt became loved—and hated—on her own for her stands on race and human rights. Niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she began a tumultuous marriage with her cousin Franklin Roosevelt in 1905. Increasingly active after his bout with polio, Roosevelt became (and continued to be, even after his death) a leading figure in the New Deal and liberal Democratic politics. Her commitment to integration had been made more public by her dramatic resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution when that group barred Marian Anderson from Constitution Hall. In 1946 she founded the Americans for Democratic Action to support liberal voices within the Democratic Party, while from 1945 to 1953 she served as US delegate to the United Nations, chairing the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1961 President John F. Kennedy re-appointed her to the UN as well as to his Commission on the Status of Women; decades later, Hillary Clinton has identified her as a vital presence in the redefinition of the role of First Lady.