Robert Roosevelt
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Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (August 7, 1829 – June 14, 1906) was the uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt and the grand uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt. His father was Cornelius Roosevelt (1794-1871) and his mother was Margaret Barnhill (1799-1861).
He was an early conservationist and worked for the protection of waterways. Roosevelt served in Congress as a Democrat. He was later appointed to a diplomatic post to the Netherlands by President Grover Cleveland.
Roosevelt is credited with influencing his nephew, Theodore Roosevelt, to become a conservationist. He also was a popular author and a friend of such writers such as Oscar Wilde.
Roosevelt was the father of many children - both by his wife and by a mistress (Minnie O'Shea Fortescue) whom he subsquently married after the death of his wife. Among the illegitimate offspring who thus became his stepchildren were Kenyon Fortescue (destined for a career as an attorney), and Major Granville Roland "Rolly" Fortescue, who eventually married Grace Hubbard Fortescue (née Grace Hubbard Bell), a defendant in the notorious 1932 murder trial known as the Massie Affair.
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