- Ethel du Pont
Ethel du Pont Roosevelt Warren (
January 30 ,1916 –May 25 ,1965 ) was an Americanheiress andsocialite and a member of the prominentdu Pont family . Born inWilmington, Delaware , she was the daughter ofEugene du Pont, Jr . She was raised at Owl's Nest, the family's estate in Greenville,Delaware .On June 30, 1937, she married
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. , son ofFranklin Delano Roosevelt , the sittingPresident of the United States . They had two sons,Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III (b. 1938) and Christopher du Pont Roosevelt (b. 1941). The couple separated and formally divorced in 1949. In 1950 Ethel du Pont Roosevelt remarried to prominentDetroit lawyer, Benjamin S. Warren, Sr.Ethel du Pont was forty-nine years old when she committed suicide on
May 25 ,1965 . Her family endowed theHarvard Medical School Ethel Dupont-Warren Fellowship Award for research inPsychiatry .
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