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  1. Isaac Roosevelt (December 19, 1726 – October 1794) was an American merchant and Federalist politician. He served in the New York State Assembly and the state Constitutional Convention and achieved the most political success of any Roosevelt before Theodore Roosevelt.

  2. Isaac Roosevelt House in Hyde Park Roosevelt Cottage. Isaac Daniel Roosevelt (September 29, 1790 – December 24, 1863) was an American doctor and farmer. He was the paternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  3. Sep 21, 2020 · Quick Facts. Significance: Merchant and Politician. Place of Birth: New York City. Date of Birth: December 19, 1726. Date of Death: October 1794. Isaac Roosevelt was a sugar merchant whose opposition to British trade laws and their reduction of profits drove him to the Revolutionary cause.

  4. Jun 7, 2023 · Isaac Roosevelt was FDR's great-great-great grandfather. A known patriot, Roosevelt was elected to the New York Provincial Congress in 1775 and was one of the Committee of One Hundred that took control of the state government in May of that year.

  5. Isaac Roosevelt (b. 1726) was perhaps the most heralded of Franklin Delano Roosevelts ancestors. It was he who first attained political fame and cemented the family’s place in American aristocracy.

  6. Jan 9, 2023 · Isaac Roosevelt (December 19, 1726 – October 1794) was an American merchant and Federalist politician. He served in the New York State Assembly and the state Constitutional Convention and achieved the most political success of any Roosevelt before Theodore Roosevelt.

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  8. Oct 31, 2019 · One of the thirty “yeahs” was Isaac Roosevelt of New York City, a committed Federalist, prominent sugar merchant, and president of the Bank of New York. An individual who had originally planned to attend the 1938 commemoration but could not was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose Hyde Park estate was just down the road from Poughkeepsie.