page_title: Elliott Roosevelt
section_title: Marriages and children
hierarchical_section_title: Elliott Roosevelt / Marriages and children
caption_attribution_description: English: Elizabeth Browning Donner and Elliott Roosevelt divorced on 17 July 1933.
context_page_description: Elliott Roosevelt was an American aviation official and wartime officer in the United States Army Air Forces, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
  As a reconnaissance commander, Roosevelt pioneered new techniques in night photography and meteorological data-gathering, but his claims to a distinguished record on combat missions have been largely discounted.
  After the war ended, he faced an investigation by the United States Congress, on charges of corruption, including accusations that he had recommended the purchase of the experimental Hughes XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft ahead of a Lockheed model that was believed to be superior. Ultimately, he was found blameless.
  Roosevelt published a book about his attendance at several major Allied war conferences, and a controversial exposé of his parents’ private life. He also wrote 22 mystery novels. His career also embraced broadcasting, ranching, politics and business.
context_section_description: Roosevelt was married five times:
  On January 16, 1932, he married Elizabeth Browning Donner (1911—1980), daughter of William Henry Donner. They had one son, William Donner Roosevelt (1932—2003), an investment banker and philanthropist. On July 17, 1933, Donner filed a cross petition charging Roosevelt with "extreme cruelty" to a court at Minden, Nevada, and they were divorced.
  On July 22, 1933, in Burlington, Iowa, he married Ruth Josephine Googins (1908—1974). They had three children: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt (1934–2018), Elliott "Tony" Roosevelt, Jr. (b. 1936), a Texas oilman, and David Boynton Roosevelt (b. 1942). Elliott and Ruth were divorced in March 1944. She married Harry T. Eidson on June 23, 1944.
  On December 3, 1944, at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, he married actress Faye Emerson. They were divorced on January 17, 1950. She died of stomach cancer in 1983 in Spain.
  On March 15, 1951, at Miami Beach, Florida, he married Minnewa Bell (Gray Burnside Ross). They were divorced in 1960.  Minnewa died in 1983.
  On November 3, 1960, at Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, Canada, he married Patricia Peabody Whitehead. Her four children, James M. Whitehead, Ford Whitehead, Gretchen Whitehead, and David Macauley Whitehead, were all adopted by Elliott Roosevelt. The couple's only child together, Livingston Delano Roosevelt, died in 1962 as an infant.
caption: Elizabeth Browning Donner and Elliott Roosevelt's divorce as reported by The Hongkong Telegraph
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