Robert Roosevelt

Robert Roosevelt

Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (born August 7, 1829 in New York City , † June 14, 1906 in Sayville , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1871 and 1873 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Barnwell Roosevelt had a good education. He studied law and began practicing in New York City in 1850 after receiving his license to practice law. Between 1868 and 1888 he was the Fish Commissioner of New York. He worked as an editor at New York Citizen for several years .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1870 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded John Fox on March 4, 1871 . He retired from the after March 3, 1873 Congress of.

He represented New York City as a trustee on the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Project from 1879 to 1882 . President Grover Cleveland appointed him envoy to the Netherlands in 1888 to succeed Isaac Bell - a position he held until 1890. In 1892 he was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee . He also served on the New York City Board of Aldermen . He died in Sayville on June 14, 1906 and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn.

Works

Roosevelt was a well-known writer. Occasionally he wrote under the pseudonym Barnwell or Ira Zell . He wrote the following works, among others:

• Superior fishing; or The Striped Bass, Trout, Black Bass and Bluefish of the Northern States.
• Game Fish of the Northern States and British Provinces.
• Game Birds of the North (1866)
• Superior Fishing (1866)
• Florida and the Game Water Birds (1868)
• Five Acres Too Much , a satire provoked by Edmund Morris's Ten Acres Enough (1869)
• Progressive Petticoats , a satire on female physicians (1871)

He edited " Political Works of Charles G. Halpine " , which includes his biography. (1869).

Theodore Roosevelt stated in his biography that the "Br'er Rabbit" stories he published in Harper's go back to Robert. He was the first to write down these stories of slaves , who until then only passed them on orally. The response after the publication was cruel. This was many years before Joel Chandler Harris immortalized the stories in Uncle Remus . The publication took place in 1879 in The Atlanta Journal .

family

Robert Barnwell Roosevelt was the son of Margaret Barnhill (1799–1861) and Cornelius Roosevelt (1794–1871). His uncle was Congressman James I. Roosevelt . He was the brother of Theodore Roosevelt senior , uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt, and great-uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt .

Roosevelt was the father of many children. Some children are from his marriage and the others from his relationship with his long-term mistress. After the death of his first wife, he married his mistress. He recognized the descendants of his second wife as his step-sons.

With his first wife, Elizabeth Ellis Roosevelt , he had three children together: Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt , John Ellis Roosevelt and Robert Roosevelt junior . In 1873 he acquired the Meadowcroft property in Sayville, New York, which his son later expanded into the John Ellis Roosevelt Estate . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

• John Ellis Roosevelt married Nanne Mitchell Vance, daughter of the Hon. Samuel BH Vance , in 1879 in the recently built St. Nicholas Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church on Fifth Avenue and Forty-Eighth Street in New York City. Vance was a Republican Party member active in New York City politics, an entrepreneur, and acting Mayor of New York City in December 1874.

With his second wife Minnie O'Shea Fortescue he had three children together who were born before marriage: Kenyon , Granville and Maude.

• Kenyon Fortescue had a career as a prosecutor.
• Mayor Granville Roland "Rolly" Fortescue married Grace Hubbard Bell , who was charged with murder in 1932 ( "Massie Affair" ).

Web links

• Isa Carrington Cabell: Nicholas I. Roosevelt , Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1900
• Robert Roosevelt , The New International Encyclopædia, 1905
• Robert Roosevelt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert Roosevelt in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Barnwell Roosevelt , Collier's New Encyclopedia , 1921
2. ^ Robert Barnwell Roosevelt , The Encyclopedia Americana, 1920
3. ↑ Robert Kohrman: The American Fly Fisher , Volume 13, Number 4, American Museum of Fly Fishing, Summer 1987, pp 22-26.
4. ^ RootsWeb: Robert Roosevelt
5. ^ Robert D. Kuhn: National Register of Historic Places Registration: John Ellis Roosevelt Estate , New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation , September 1987.
6. ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved March 13, 2009.
7. ^ "The Vance-Roosevelt Wedding; Mr. John E. Roosevelt United to Miss Nannie Mitchell Vance-Some of the Presents," New York Times. February 20, 1879, p. 8.
8. ↑ Spinzia, Raymond E .: Those other Roosevelts: The Fortescues , The Oyster Bay Historical Society's The Freeholder, 2006
9. ^ Robert B. Roosevelt's Will; Testator's Three Children Inherit Most of the Large Estate , The New York Times, June 20, 1906

predecessor	Office	successor
John Fox	United States House of Representatives for New York (4th constituency) March 4, 1871 - March 3, 1873	Philip S. Crooke