wikipedia online, July 21, 2010 (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; b. Oct. 11, 1884; d. Nov. 7, 1962; was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945; she supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt continued to be an internationally prominent author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition)