Henry L. Roosevelt

Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (October 5, 1879 – February 22, 1936) was an assistant secretary of the United States Navy and a member of the Roosevelt family.

Early life Roosevelt was born on October 5, 1879, in Morristown, New Jersey, to Lieutenant Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt (1847–1892), USN, who had a naval career of distinction, and Eleanor (née Dean) Roosevelt (1852–1933). During his career with the Marine Corps he was stationed in, among other places, Philadelphia, Panama, Cuba and Haiti.

In 1920, he retired from the Marine Corps, and then served as the European manager for the Radio Corporation of America from 1923 to 1928, overseeing the building of large radio stations in Ankara, Turkey, and Warsaw, Poland. He served in the position from March 17, 1933, until his death on February 22, 1936. He became the fourth Roosevelt and fifth member of the Roosevelt family to occupy that office, after Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt (the president under whom he served in the post), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Theodore Douglas Robinson.

Personal life In 1902, he married Eleanor Morrow (1879–1958), daughter of William W. Morrow (1843–1929), a California Circuit Judge and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 4th congressional district. William Morrow Roosevelt (1906–1983), who married Louise Gilpin Morris (1910–1977), daughter of Israel Wister Morris, in 1932. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt Jr. (1910–1985), who married Vera Felicity Story, daughter of Julian Russell Story, a noted painter, and granddaughter of William Wetmore Story, a noted sculptor, in 1937. Eleanor Katherine Roosevelt (1915–1995), who married Reverdy Wadsworth (1914–1970), son of U.S. Senator and Representative James W. Wadsworth Jr.

Roosevelt died on February 22, 1936, at Bethesda Naval Hospital of a heart attack following intestinal influenza. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.