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 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

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

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1870 he was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Fox on March 4, 1871. He retired after the March 3, 1873 out of the Congress.

He represented from 1879 to 1882 New York City as a trustee at the New York and Brooklyn Bridge project. President Grover Cleveland appointed him in 1888 as the successor to Isaac Bell to the Messenger in the Netherlands - a position which he held until 1890. In 1892 he was chamberlain ( treasurer ) of the Democratic National Committee. In addition, he sat on the Board of Aldermen of New York City. He died on June 14, 1906 in Sayville and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Works

• Superior Fishing; or The Striped Bass, Trout, Black Bass and Blue Fish 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 gave "Political Works of Charles G. Halpine " out, 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 has written the first of these stories of slaves, which they passed on orally until then. The response after the publication fell out cruelly. This was many years before Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus made ​​the stories immortal. The publication was 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 Sr., uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt and great-uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Roosevelt was the father of many children. Some children come from his marriage and the others of his relationship with his long-time mistress. After the death of his first wife, he married his mistress. The descendants of his second wife he recognized as his stepsons.

With his first wife Elizabeth Ellis Roosevelt, he had three children: Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt, John Ellis Roosevelt Roosevelt and Robert junior. He earned 1873 Meadowcroft estate in Sayville (New York), the later his son to John Ellis Roosevelt Estate goal for. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

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

With his second wife Minnie O'Shea Fortescue he had two children together, who came to the world before marriage: Kenyon Fortescue and Granville Roland Fortescue.

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