Lawyer/Poet
Centurion, 1859–1865
Born 18 October 1823 in New York State
Died 24 March 1870 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Charles Tracy
Elected 4 June 1859 at age thirty-five
Archivist’s Note: Brother of Cornelius Van Schaick Roosevelt, James A. Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt; father of James West Roosevelt; uncle of Alfred Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. Emlen Roosevelt; grandfather of Nicholas Roosevelt