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Clarence John Boettiger
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Clarence John Boettiger (March 25, 1900 – October 31, 1950) was an American journalist and military officer. He was the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, the daughter and first child of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Clarence John Boettiger was born in Chicago on , to Adam C. Boettiger, a banker, and Dora Ott. In his high school years, he started going by his middle name. He began his career in journalism as a police reporter for the City News Bureau. He joined the Chicago Tribune in 1923 and was assigned to Washington, D.C., to cover President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he first campaigned for the presidency in 1932. The Tribune was fiercely anti-Roosevelt.
Boettiger met FDR's daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall, on her father's campaign train. She was recently separated from her husband Curtis Bean Dall, and was living in the White House with her two children Eleanor and Curtis.
On January 18, 1935, Boettiger and Roosevelt Dall were married in the Roosevelts' New York townhouse at 49 E. 65th Street. The wedding was low-key and the couple said they would live quietly. At that time Boettiger had resigned from the Tribune and taken a job with the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America.
Before William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate, fell out with President Roosevelt, he provided prominent and lucrative employment for FDR's son Elliott Roosevelt and in November 1936, for Boettiger and Anna. Boettiger became publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Anna was editor of the paper's women's pages. Hearst agreed to give the Boettigers editorial freedom to "make it the best paper in Seattle."
With interruptions, the Boettigers lived in Seattle until after the war. Anna and Boettiger had one son, John Roosevelt Boettiger, born March 30, 1939. The president and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, occasionally visited them there. In 1940, Boettiger publicly argued for a third FDR term, unlike some of the Roosevelt sons.
In 1942, Boettiger became concerned that he was not doing his part for the war effort.
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