Eleanor Roosevelt

Elenor Roosevelt was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt and wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, but she was an impressive woman in her own right. She was at a minimum the epitome of the adage of behind every great man is a woman – or as I like to say, behind every great man is a woman with a man in her way. Related to Franklin Roosevelt, she was the driving force that go him into higher politics. After he lost the ability to walk from polio, she was the one that pushed him to run for governor of New York and later for president of the U.S.

Before Elenaor Roosevelt, First Ladies were mostly and some only involved in social events at the White House. She was active in her husband’s campaigns and often spoke publicly on his behalf when he was in office. She was a major advocate for civil rights, in particular for the poor and African Americans. She was instrumental in getting the U.S. to join the United Nations in 1945, after her husband’s death. She was the first chairperson for the Commission on Human Rights, helping to write the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 – a guiding document of the U.N. and for most nations and how they conduct themseves.

Note

This batch of stamps isn’t very interesting. The Christmas stamp is nice, albeit small – although I kind of like the size. I’m missing the second one, though. It’s the same as the first except that it’s tagged. Tagging is explained on the Christmas Garland page.

Contains 13 spots: own 13 – 13 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description
1.1	✓	1230	Carolina Charter	5c (apr 1963) comm., brown & dark carmine
1.2	✓	1232	West Virginia	5c (jun 1963) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	1235	Cordell Hull	5c (oct 1963) comm., blue green
2.2	✓	1241	Black-Throated Magpie-jay Calocitta colliei	5c (dec 1963) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	1238	City Mail Delivery	5c (oct 1963) comm., multicolor
2.4	✓	1231	Food for Peace	5c (jun 1963) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	1234	Alliance for Progress	5c (aug 1963) comm., green & ultramarine
3.2	✓	1236	Eleanor Roosevelt	5c (oct 1963) comm., bright purple
3.3	✓	1233	Severed Chain	5c (aug 1963) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	1239	Intl. Red Cross	5c (oct 1963) comm., red & bluish black
4.2	✓	1237	The Sciences	5c (oct 1963) comm., black & prussian blue

Christmas & Holidays

5.1	✓	1240	Natl. Christmas Tree	5c (nov 1963) comm., multicolor
5.2	✓	1240a	Natl. Christmas Tree Tagged	5c (nov 1963) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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