he became engaged to Theodore Roosevelt’s niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also his distant cousin. They married on March 17, 1905, and went on to have one daughter and five sons, one of whom died in ...

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The oldest man in the invasion force is 57-year-old General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. He successfully leads his men up the beachhead, but then a month later he dies of a massive heart attack.