The wife of American president Franklin D. Roosevelt was a tireless campaigner. During her husband’s unprecedented four-term presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) made significant contributions to human rights and spoke out for the downtrodden during the Great Depression -- when that described almost all Americans as the nation was devastated in modern history’s worst economic downturn, and then when America led the successful fight for freedom against the Nazi and fascist Axis Powers during World War II.