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Eleanor Roosevelt

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First Lady

The Resume

    (October 11, 1884-November 7, 1962)
    Birth name was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
    U.S. First Lady (1933-45)
    U.S. delegate to the United Nations
    Civil Rights Activist/Humanitarian

Why she might be annoying:

    She married Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin once removed (she did not have to change her name - 1905).
    She had six children before learning that her husband, Franklin, was having an affair with Lucy Mercer (1918).
    There were strong rumors that Eleanor had a lesbian girlfriend.

Why she might not be annoying:

    At eight years old, her mother died and her father was placed in an insane asylum.
    At age ten, she was an orphan (her father died from alcoholism).
    She defied segregation laws in the south when she sat in the African-American section (1939).
    She influenced the Army Nurse Corp to open membership to African Americans (1945).
    She joined the NAACP (1945).
    She helped draft the U.N. copy of human rights (1946).
    She threatened President Truman, that she would quit her U.N. post if the U.S. did not vote for Israel's acceptance into the U.N.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 213 Votes: 66.20% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 39 Votes: 48.72% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 156 Votes: 55.13% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 186 Votes: 53.76% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 86 Votes: 43.02% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 142 Votes: 50.70% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 337 Votes: 53.41% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 155 Votes: 58.71% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1413 Votes: 56.40% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 69 Votes: 49.28% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 86 Votes: 46.51% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 121 Votes: 48.76% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 135 Votes: 61.48% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 78 Votes: 47.44% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 74 Votes: 60.81% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 138 Votes: 41.30% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 101 Votes: 33.66% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 295 Votes: 43.73% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 312 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 1751 Votes: 41.86% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 3150 Votes: 41.33% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 1398 Votes: 42.27% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 3125 Votes: 44.80% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 4289 Votes: 48.29% Annoying