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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), in part to help compensate for
the polio-induced paralyis of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
remade the role of the First Lady of the United States. She instituted the practice
of allowing press conferences for women journalists, advocated human rights
causes, and participated in policy processes. Even after her husband's death,
Eleanor Roosevelt served the public in many--often controversial--ways, for
instance as chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights where she
drafted and achieved adoption of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
(1948).