Ethel du Pont

Ethel du Pont

Ethel du Pont Roosevelt Warren (January 30, 1916 – May 25, 1965) was an American heiress and socialite and a member of the prominent du Pont family. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, she was the daughter of Eugene du Pont, Jr. She was raised at Owl's Nest, the family's estate in Greenville, Delaware.

On June 30, 1937, she married Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the sitting President of the United States. They had two sons, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III (b. 1938) and Christopher du Pont Roosevelt (b. 1941). The couple separated and formally divorced in 1949. In 1950 Ethel du Pont Roosevelt remarried to prominent Detroit lawyer, Benjamin S. Warren, Sr.

Ethel du Pont was forty-nine years old when she committed suicide on May 25, 1965. Her family endowed the Harvard Medical School Ethel Dupont-Warren Fellowship Award for research in Psychiatry.


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