Born in New York City on October 11, 1884, to Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Hall Roosevelt, descendants of a prominent family of Dutch ancestry, Eleanor was a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. Her mother died when she was eight, her father when she was ten. She then lived with her maternal grandmother until the age of 15 when she was sent to boarding school in England. On her return she did social work in New York before marrying her distant cousin Franklin Roosevelt in 1905. In 1921 Eleanor began to work tirelessly on behalf of FDR, who had been stricken with poliomyelitis. As the disease progressed, she often had to lift and carry him from his bed to his wheelchair and her upper body strength was markedly enhanced by carrying the ailing FDR up and down the long spiral steps of the Whitehouse. After his unsuccessful bid for the vice presidency in 1920, Eleanor became active in Democratic party politics as a means of maintaining her handicapped husband's career. When he was elected United States president in 1932, and although she held no office, she soon became an influential figure in the administration. Eleanor would have made a great dominatrix if that had been her chosen calling. She probably had 18 inch biceps, 28 inch quads and could have easily benched 205 lbs. I like to think of Eleanor Roosevelt in the heavyweight bodybuilder class! She died on November 7, 1962 in New York City.