Curtis Bean Dall
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===Later Life=== | ===Later Life=== | ||
| − | Dall became involved with the "...racist Right's ill-fated efforts at forming a third party..."<sup>[[#Footnotes 4| | + | Dall became involved with the "...racist Right's ill-fated efforts at forming a third party..."<sup>[[#Footnotes 4|P]]</sup>. 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 the 1960s Curtis, an ardent conservative, was a member of the Christian Crusade National Advisory Board, and a member of the Executive Board of "We The People". In 1966/7 he wrote the book for which he is most cited today, ''[[F.D.R. My Exploited Father-In-Law]]'', in which he speaks of his ex-father-in-law, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Franklin's relationship with, as Curtis saw them, the corrupt power of the banking elite of the time. In 1968, his name was filed for the Presidential primaries in New Hampshire. In 1971, he was Chairman of the Liberty Lobby<sup>[[#Footnotes 4|Q]]</sup> He retired as chairman in 1982. |
He died at the Hospice of Northern Virginia in Arlington, [[Virginia]] on 28 Jun 1991, aged 95. His obituary states that he lived in Alexandria,<sup>[[#Footnotes 1|A]]</sup> but the Social Security Death Index states that he had last been a resident of Beaufort, Beaufort County, [[South Carolina]] <sup>[[#Footnotes 1|C]]</sup> which is where one of his daughters, Katherine lived. He left to survive him, his second wife Katharine; Eleanor Seagraves of Washington and Curtis Roosevelt Dall of Majorca, Spain, both from his first marriage; and from his second marriage, Katharine Bolton of Beaufort, S.C., Mary Dunham of Newport, R.I., Stephen of Devon, Pa., and James of Portland, Ore. in addition to 10 grandchildren and one great-grandson. | He died at the Hospice of Northern Virginia in Arlington, [[Virginia]] on 28 Jun 1991, aged 95. His obituary states that he lived in Alexandria,<sup>[[#Footnotes 1|A]]</sup> but the Social Security Death Index states that he had last been a resident of Beaufort, Beaufort County, [[South Carolina]] <sup>[[#Footnotes 1|C]]</sup> which is where one of his daughters, Katherine lived. He left to survive him, his second wife Katharine; Eleanor Seagraves of Washington and Curtis Roosevelt Dall of Majorca, Spain, both from his first marriage; and from his second marriage, Katharine Bolton of Beaufort, S.C., Mary Dunham of Newport, R.I., Stephen of Devon, Pa., and James of Portland, Ore. in addition to 10 grandchildren and one great-grandson. | ||
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==Further reading== | ==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...."<sup>[[#Footnotes 4| | + | *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...."<sup>[[#Footnotes 4|R]]</sup> |
| − | *The New York State Archives has 34 linear feet of the Anna Roosevelt papers.<sup>[[#Footnotes 4| | + | *The New York State Archives has 34 linear feet of the Anna Roosevelt papers.<sup>[[#Footnotes 4|S]]</sup> |
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
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===Footnotes 4=== | ===Footnotes 4=== | ||
| − | * | + | *P — Diamond, Sara. Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States, p 87 |
| − | * | + | *Q — [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595236995&id=584-3unXLocC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=%22Curtis+B+Dall%22&sig=T7_KKgbIZvW9mZ8zlJdyeEoeoHA Richardson, Darcy G., A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign, p. 217] |
| − | * | + | *R — [http://www.archives.gov/research/accessions/2006-quarter-3.html NARA Accessions, 3rd Quarter 2006] |
| − | * | + | *S — http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/research/res_topics_health_mh_recguide_hrrny_doc.shtml |
==Other Primary documents== | ==Other Primary documents== | ||
