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BIOGRAPHY

Dall was born in , the day of the 1929 Stock Market crash.

Anna's father was the 32nd U.S. president on March 25 1927 , and Curtis Roosevelt on April 19 1930 . "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, Nev." (''Syracuse Herald'', Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Six months after her divorce, on January 18, 1935, she married journalist John Boettiger.

He is most well-known in recent times for his book ''My Exploited Father-in-law'', in which he speaks of his father-in-law, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his relationship with, as he saw them, the corrupt power of the banking elite of the time. In reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s he quotes: "Actually it was the calculated ‘shearing’ of the public by the World Money-Powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of the supply of call money in the New York money market."

Dall became involved with the "...racist Right's ill-fated efforts at forming a third party..."Diamond, Sara. ''Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States'', p 87. In 1960 the Texas-based Constitution Party put-up retired Marine Corps Brigadier General Merritt B. Curtis for president, and campaign manager Curtis B. Dall for vice-president.

In 1968, his name was filed for the Presidential primaries in New Hampshire. In 1971, he was Chairman of the Liberty Lobby Richardson, Darcy G., ''A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign'' , p. 217

He died in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1991, aged 94.


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FURTHER READING

  • The Franklin D Roosevelt Library at NARA has recently "...received correspondence between Curtis B. Dall, Anna Roosevelt's first husband, and the Roosevelt family, donated by his daughter Mary Dall Twichell...."http://www.archives.gov/research/accessions/

  • The New York State Archives has 34 linear feet of the Anna Roosevelt papers.http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_health_mh_recguide.shtml



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  • National Park Service bio of Anna

  • Social Security Death Index

  • OneWorldTree

  • ''Syracuse Herald'', Jul 6, 1936. Picture of Curtis B Dall with his two children

  • ''Syracuse Herald Journal'', Feb 2, 1968. Picture. Name filed for New Hampshire Presidential primary



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