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(Wednesday, November 7, 1962, 6:15 p.m. EST) — Eleanor Roosevelt, who served as the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office, and became an international figure in her own right, died this evening at her home at 55 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Roosevelt also served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the “First Lady of the World” in tribute to her human rights achievements.
In April 1960, Roosevelt was diagnosed with aplastic anemia soon after being struck by a car in New York City. In 1962, she was given steroids, which activated a dormant case of tuberculosis in her bone marrow, and she died, aged 78, of resulting cardiac failure.
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President John F. Kennedy ordered all United States flags lowered to half-staff throughout the world on November 8 in tribute to Roosevelt.
Funeral services were held three days later (Nov. 10, 1962) at Hyde Park, New York, where she was interred next to her husband in the Rose Garden at Springwood Estate, the Roosevelt family home. Attendees included President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and former presidents Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
