Roosevelt family

Roosevelt
Political family
Coat of arms of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Current region	New York and New England
Earlier spellings	Rosevelt, van Rosenvelt, van Rosevelt
Etymology	Dutch for "Rose field"
Place of origin	Dutch American Community, English American Community — Netherlands, United Kingdom (England), United States (New York)
Connected families	Delano family Du Pont family Astor family Latrobe family Livingston family Longworth family Hoffman family Schuyler family Goodyear family Lowell family de Peyster family Whitney family Brooke Family
Estate(s)	Sagamore Hill (Oyster Bay, New York) Springwood (Hyde Park, New York)

The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady,^[1] and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. The progeny of a mid-17th century Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, many members of the family became nationally prominent in New York State and City politics and business and intermarried with prominent colonial families. Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, rose to global political prominence with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945), whose wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was Theodore's niece. The Roosevelt family is one of four families to have produced two presidents of the United States by the same surname; the others were the Adams, Bush, and Harrison families.