Sara Roosevelt

Sara Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt in 1937
Born	Sara Ann Delano (1854-09-21)September 21, 1854 Newburgh, New York, U.S.
Died	September 7, 1941(1941-09-07) (aged 86) Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
Spouse	James Roosevelt I ​ ​ (m. 1880; died 1900)​
Children	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Parent(s)	Warren Delano Jr. Catherine Robbins Lyman
Relatives	Delano family Roosevelt family

Sara Delano Roosevelt on the cover of Time (March 6, 1933)

Sara Delano Roosevelt with her son, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1933 at the family estate in Hyde Park, New York

Sara Ann Roosevelt (née Delano; September 21, 1854 – September 7, 1941) was the second wife of James Roosevelt I (from 1880), the mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child, and subsequently the mother-in-law of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Delano grew up in Newburgh, New York, and spent three years in Hong Kong. She gave birth to Franklin in 1882, and was a devoted mother to him for the remainder of her life, including home-schooling and living close by in adulthood. She had a complex relationship with her daughter-in-law Eleanor, which has led to media portrayals of her as a domineering and fearsome mother-in-law, though these are at odds with other views. She died in 1941, with her son, then the President, at her side.