Nicholas Roosevelt
Diplomat, Author
1893 – 1982
Who was Nicholas Roosevelt?
Nicholas Roosevelt was an American diplomat and journalist. A member of the Roosevelt family and first-cousin once removed of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, he was born in New York City to James West Roosevelt, a brother of Hilborne Roosevelt, and Laura Henrietta d'Oremieulx. Brought up in Oyster Bay, New York, he graduated from Harvard University in 1914. He was an attaché at the American Embassy in Paris, secretary to the American mission to Spain in 1916 and 17, vice-governor of the Philippine Islands in 1930, and U.S. minister to Hungary from 1930 to 1933. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a writer for its journal Foreign Affairs, and a foreign correspondent and editorial writer for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune from 1921 to 1946. A prolific author, his autobiography, A Front Row Seat, offers a critical view of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a distant cousin, and an inside view of the New York Times. Theodore Roosevelt drew on Nicholas Roosevelt's unique childhood recollections, his father having been a close friend of Theodore. He was married to Tirzah Gates, the daughter of Senator Egbert Gates. Her sister, Dorothy Gates, was the first wife of eminent astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky. He remained lifelong friends with Fritz Zwicky. He lived in Big Sur, California in later life.
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- Born
- Jun 12, 1893
New York City - Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
( - 1914)
- Harvard University
- Employment
- Correspondent, The New York Times Company
(1923 - ) - New-York Tribune
(1921 - 1923)
- Correspondent, The New York Times Company
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- Feb 1, 1982
Monterey
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on July 23, 2013
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