- Philip Roosevelt (WWI Captain)
Philip James Roosevelt (
May 15 ,1892 - November 1941) was aWorld War I Captain for theUnited States Army ,Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps (predecessor to theUnited States Air Force ), editor of "Aviation and Aeronautic Engineering" (later known as "Aviation Week ", then "Aviation Week & Space Technology "), banker, yachtsman, and first cousin once removed ofUnited States President Theodore Roosevelt .cite web|url=http://aviation.se.edu/salluisi/avia3143/Handouts/Americas%20First%20Air-Land%20Battle.pdf|title=America’s First Air-Land Battle|accessdate=2008-05-12|date=Winter 2003|work=Air & Space Power Journal|author=Frandsen, Bert] Philip was close to the president's children and accompanied them on trips. [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04EFDF113BE631A25752C3A9619C946597D6CF|title=Roosevelt Boys in St. Louis|accessdate=2008-05-12|date=1904-07-30 |publisher=The New York Times Company |work=The New York Times ] [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D01E6DF143AE633A25757C1A9609C946596D6CF|title=Roosevelt Arrives for London Lecture|accessdate=2008-05-17|date=1914-06-14 |publisher=The New York Times Company |work=The New York Times ] He was a 1912 graduate ofHarvard University .Military service
He was an original member of the Raynal Bolling’s 1st Aero Company of the
New York National Guard . He did not qualify as a militaryaviator due to his eyesight, but as a military-aviationjournalist he was a prominentaerial warfare expert. Immediately afterUnited States Congress declared war on6 April 1917 , the Signal Corps summoned Roosevelt to Washington to help plan the aviation mobilization. He impressedBenjamin Delahauf Foulois and accompanied him toFrance . Foulois paired Roosevelt withMajor Bert Atkinson, but they had the command organization that resulted from theAmerican Expeditionary Force ’s inexperience incoalition warfare . They operated under theFrench Sixth Army , but two different American headquarters (includingColonel Billy Mitchell 's 1st Air Brigade headquarters) felt that they held jurisdiction. The two planned America’s first-everair-land battle at a time when the US Army was still learning the nuances of command relationships between the pursuit and observation groups and the corps and armies they supported.Personal
The
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified as ratified onJanuary 29 1919 and theNational Prohibition Act , passed in theUnited States Congress overUnited States President Woodrow Wilson 's veto onOctober 28 1919 . In November 1919, during prohibition, Roosevelt served as President of a joint venture withTheodore Roosevelt, Jr. ,Kermit Roosevelt ,Archibald Roosevelt ,Ethel Roosevelt Derby and her husband Richard Derby, opening acoffeehouse named the Brazilian Coffehouse at 108 West 44th Street in city-state|Manhattan|New York. [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C0CEED71031E03ABC4E51DFB7678382609EDE|title=Roosevelts Start Coffeehouse Chain|accessdate=2008-05-13|date=1919-11-26 |publisher=The New York Times Company |work=The New York Times ] The coffeehouse was renamed the Double R, and moved to 112 W. 44th in 1921. It was managed by the Roosevelts until 1928. [cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/sahi/supportyourpark/upload/March%202007%20T.pdf|title=The Roosevelts’ “Brazilian Coffee House”|accessdate=2008-05-17|date=March 2007|publisher=National Park Service|work=The Rough Writer|author=Reyes, Joshua]In 1925, he married his own second cousin Jean S. Roosevelt, daughter of John E. Roosevelt. Their common great grandfather
Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt was Theodore Roosevelt's grandfather. [cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,720380,00.html|title=untitled|accessdate=2008-05-17|date=1925-05-18 |publisher=Time, Inc. |work=Time ] He was the son ofWilliam Emlen Roosevelt , grandson ofJames A. Roosevelt and brother ofGeorge Emlen Roosevelt and John Kean Roosevelt. [cite web|url=http://www.smokershistory.com/Central.htm|title=Bank History, Central Trust Company of New York|accessdate=2008-05-17|date=2008-04-12 ]He died in November 1941 of drowning, presumably after a heart attack, while sailing a dinghy in
Oyster Bay, New York . [cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,795635,00.html?iid=chix-sphere|date=1941-11-17|title=Died. Philip James Roosevelt, 49|publisher=TIME ]Family political humor
He would later become partner in
Roosevelt & Son and supposedly became atrustee of theestate ofJames Roosevelt, Sr. on behalf of distant cousin and United States PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt . A "Time" story of a repartee between cousins in a series of written notes about the effects of fiscal policy and estate interests was very humorous, but denied as false. [cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847334,00.html|title=Trustees|accessdate=2008-05-12|date=1934-11-19 |publisher=Time Inc. |work=Time]Notes
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