Abstract Biographies of Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt note that by the time FDR took office in 1932, the Roosevelt marriage was more of a political partnership than an intimate personal relationship. They married for love in 1905 and had six children but, as a keenly intelligent woman, Eleanor Roosevelt struggled against the confines of her role as a society matron. In addition, her mother-in-law was a forceful and influential presence in her son's life and FDR proved unwilling to support his...