Elinor Morgenthau

Elinor Morgenthau
Eleanor Roosevelt and Elinor Morgenthau in New York City (September 29, 1944)
Born
Elinor Lehman Fatman

(1892-02-19)February 19, 1892
New York, US
DiedSeptember 21, 1949(1949-09-21) (aged 57)
New York, US
NationalityAmerican
EducationA.B. Vassar College
OccupationPolitical activist
SpouseHenry Morgenthau Jr.
ChildrenHenry Morgenthau III
Robert Morgenthau
Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn
FamilyMayer Lehman (grandfather)
Henry Morgenthau Sr. (father-in-law)

Elinor Lehman Morgenthau (née Fatman; February 19, 1892[1] – September 21, 1949) was an American Democratic party activist, member of the Lehman family, and spouse of Henry Morgenthau Jr.

Biography

Born to a Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of Lisette "Settie" (née Lehman) and Morris Fatman, a clothing manufacturer.[2] Her grandfather was Mayer Lehman, a co-founder of Lehman Brothers. She had one older sister, Margaret.[2] She attended the Jacobi School for girls and then graduated from Vassar College with a degree in theater in 1913.[2] After school, she taught acting at the Henry Street Settlement where she met her future husband Henry Morgenthau Jr.,[2] the son of ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr.[3] They married in 1915 and settled in Dutchess County, New York where her husband became involved in local politics[3] and operated a farm which they named Fishkill Farms. Morgenthau also became active in politics and served as the speaker for the state Democratic Committee Women’s Division.[2]

In 1916, she and her husband became close friends with Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt; like the Morgenthaus, the Roosevelts were active Democrats in predominantly Republican Dutchess County.[3] The Morgenthaus actively campaigned for FDR thereafter[2] and after Roosevelt was elected president, her husband was appointed as Secretary of Treasury in 1934.[2] The Morgenthaus were the only Jewish family with whom the Roosevelts were intimate, and Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Colony Club of New York in protest of its refusal to admit her friend.[3] In 1941, Elinor Morgenthau became Eleanor Roosevelt's assistant in the Office of Civilian Defense.[2] As a close personal friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Morgenthau was influential in convincing the president to take a more active role in supporting World War II refugees through the creation of the War Refugee Board.[3][4]

Personal life

Although Jewish by descent, the Morgenthaus were not religious. They celebrated both Christmas and Easter and they avoided purely Jewish social networks.[2] The couple had three children: television producer Henry Morgenthau III; New York District attorney Robert Morgenthau, and physician Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn.[2][5] They had homes in New York City and at their farm in Dutchess County, New York.[2] Morgenthau died of a stroke in New York on September 21, 1949.[2]

References

  1. ^ Beasley, Maurine Hoffman; Shulman, Holly Cowan; Beasley, Henry R. (2001). The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313301810.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Jewish Women's Archives: "Elinor Morgenthau (1891–1949) by Edna S. Friedberg retrieved October 14, 2015
  3. ^ a b c d e Beasley, Maurine H.; Shulman, Holly C. (December 2000). The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia. Greenwood. pp. 344–346 and 240. ISBN 978-0313301810.
  4. ^ Beschloss, Michael R. (September 2003). The Conquerors : Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. Simon & Schuster. pp. 43–48. ISBN 978-0743244541. Elinor.
  5. ^ New York Times: "Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn" October 7, 2012

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