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The engagement of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt to her father's fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not announced until December 1, 1904, at the insistence of Franklin's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. who opposed the union.

The marriage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was officiated by he Reverend Dr. Endicott Peabody, the groom's headmaster at Groton School.

Eleanor Roosevelt remained chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) when it was established on a permanent basis in January 1947.
She played an instrumental role, along with René Cassin, John Peters Humphrey and others, in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Eleanor Roosevelt served as the first United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), and stayed on at that position until 1953, even after stepping down as chair of the Commission in 1951.