eleanor roosevelt
...erprivileged and racial minorities. When her husband was stricken with polio in 1921, Eleanor Roosevelt was determined to keep alive her husband's interest in public affairs. Louis Howe, Roosevelt’s close adviser, tutored her. She became her husband's political stand-in. By 1928, when Roosevelt returned to the political wars as a candidate for governor of New York, she had become a public figure too. In 1926 she helped found a furniture factory in Hyde Park to aid the unemployed. In 1927 she became part owner of the Todhunter School in New York City, serving as vice principal and teaching history and government. When her husband died on April 12, 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt continued with the important public service, which was the most satisfying in her career. Pres. Harry Truman selected her a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations in December 1945. As chairman of the Commission on Human Rights she was helpful in the making of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. She stopped working with the United Nations in 1952 but was selected again, by President John Kennedy in 1961. She remained active in Democratic Party politics and was a strong supporter of the presidential campaigns of 1952 and 1956 and at the Democratic convention in 1960. In her later years Eleanor Roosevelt looked over her large family at Val-Kill, her home at Hyde Park. She kept up a large amount of correspondence and a busy social life. She died the next year, on Nov. 7, 1962, in New York City, and was buried in the rose garden at Hyde Park next to her husband. . World-renowned, respected, and admired, Eleanor Roosevelt made many lasting and meaningful contributions to the welfare of mankind which have stood the strict test of time. Her humanitarian efforts on behalf of children, the oppressed and the poor earned her the love of millions throughout the world. She was, as President Truman said, "First Lady of the World." Her entire life was dedicated to others, even in the face of serious setbacks. When her husband's promising career seemed doomed by the crippling effects of polio, her help and encouragement gave him the will to persevere that eventually brought him to the P...