![]() ![]() Bamie was afflicted by a spinal ailment that led to her being partially crippled and confined by corrective steel braces as a child. T.R.’s daughter Alice once remarked that had Bamie, with her incredible intelligence and energy, been born a 19th Century man, without the social restrictions that the era placed on women, she would have been president instead of her brother. (T.R.) (1858-1919), Bamie’s siblings were socialite Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (1860-1894) and writer/speaker Corinne Roosevelt (1861-1933). She was the eldest child of businessman/philanthropist Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt (1831-1878) and socialite Martha Stewart “Mittie” Bulloch (1835-1884). ![]() Bamie Roosevelt was born in a brownstone home at 28 East 20th Street in New York City on January 18, 1855. ![]()
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