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Curtis Bean Dall
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Curtis Bean Dall (24 October 1896 - 28 June 1991) was a stockbroker, vice-Presidential candidate, American author, and the first husband of Anna E. Roosevelt.

==Biography==
Dall was born in New York City, the son of Charles and Mary Dall, and grew up on a farm in Piscataway, New Jersey. He attended Princeton[1], became a stockbroker and was on the floor on Black Tuesday, the day of the 1929 Stock Market crash.

Anna's father was the 32nd U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her mother the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. After briefly attending Cornell University, she was married for the first time, in Hyde Park, New York, on 25 June 1926 to stockbroker Curtis Bean Dall. They had two children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on 25 March 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt on 19 April 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.  After his death on 31 October 1950, she married (3) 11 November 1952 at Malibu, California, as his second wife, James Addison Halsted.

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..."[2]. 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[3]

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

==Works==
*Dall, Curtis B. (1983, reprint of 1970 rev. ed.). My Exploited Father-in-law. Torrance, California: Legion for the Survival of Freedom, Incorpora. ISBN 0-939484-03-X.  (Original edition 1967 by Christian Crusade Publications, Tulsa, Oklahoma.)
*Dall, Curtis B. (1972). Amerikas Kriegspolitik - Roosevelt und seine Hintermänner. Tübingen, Germany: Grabert-Verlag. ISBN 3-87847-026-6.

==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...."[4] 
*The New York State Archives has 34 linear feet of the Anna Roosevelt papers.[5] 

==Notes==
# Richardson, Darcy G., A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign, p. 217 
# Diamond, Sara. Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, p 87 
# Richardson, Darcy G., A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign, p. 217 
# http://www.archives.gov/research/accessions/ 
# http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/researchroom/rr_health_mh_recguide.shtml

==Resources==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Bean_Dall "Curtis Bean Dall"] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/halstead-anna.htm "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt"], Biography on National Park Service website
*Social Security Death Index 
*[http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=15807542 "Curtis Bean Dall"] on OneWorldTree at Ancestry.com
*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
*[http://scplweb.santacruzpl.org:2249/pqdweb?index=264&did=112922799&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1193206954&clientId=54310 Obituary]