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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. During World War II, Roosevelt also served as an officer in the United States Navy. ==Personal life== Roosevelt was born at his parents' summer home at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada—now a historic site. This made Roosevelt entitled to Canadian citizenship, in addition to being an American citizen, although it is unknown if he ever exercised any of the prerogatives of Canadian citizenship. A brother of the same name had died in infancy in November 1909, having lived only several months. As a young man in 1936, he contracted a streptococcal throat infection and developed life-threatening complications. His successful treatment with Prontosil, the first commercially available sulfonamide drug, avoided a risky surgical procedure which the White House medical staff had considered, and the subsequent headlines in ''The New York Times'' and other prominent newspapers heralded the start of the era of antibacterial chemotherapy in the United States.〔(Medicine: Prontosil ), ''TIME Magazine'', December 28, 1936〕 While not nearly as scandal-prone as his elder brothers James and Elliott, Franklin Jr. was in frequent and highly publicized legal trouble, mostly for traffic violations, and once in 1934 the president had to pay a $4,500 judgment for him after an injury-accident.〔Hansen, 106〕 He was married five times, including to Ethel du Pont (1916–1965) of the du Pont family. The couple married on June 30, 1937, and had two sons: * Franklin Delano Roosevelt III (born July 19, 1938) * Christopher du Pont Roosevelt (born December 21, 1941) The couple separated and formally divorced in 1949. Ethel du Pont later committed suicide at the age of 49, on May 25, 1965. On August 31, 1949, he married Suzanne Perrin (born May 2, 1921), he had two daughters before they divorced in 1970: * Nancy Suzanne Roosevelt (born January 11, 1952) * Laura Delano Roosevelt (born October 26, 1959) He married Felicia Schiff Warburg Sarnoff on July 1, 1970. The marriage was childless and ended in divorce in 1976. He married Patricia Luisa Oakes on May 6, 1977. They had one son before divorcing in 1981: * John Alexander Roosevelt (born October 18, 1977)〔(FDR Presidential Library)〕 On March 3, 1984, he married his fifth and final wife Linda McKay Stevenson Weicker. They remained married until his death. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. died in Poughkeepsie, New York after a battle with lung cancer, on his 74th birthday, August 17, 1988. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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