Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt was the nephew of one U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt, and married the man who would become another, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Explaining the role of the first woman, she advocated for human rights and women, held press conferences and wrote her own book. After leaving the White House in 1945, Eleanor became chairman of the U.N. Human Rights Commission. The first wife to go bankrupt in 1962 in New York City.