Susan Roosevelt Weld

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Susan Roosevelt Weld was formerly a professor at Harvard specializing in ancient Chinese civilization and law. She also was General Counsel to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. She was the First Lady of Massachusetts from 1991 until 1997.

Life

She is the daughter of Quentin Roosevelt II, and Frances Blanche Webb,[1] and granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt. She is the grand-niece of Kermit Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, Ethel Roosevelt Derby and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1970, from Harvard Law School in 1974, and from Harvard University with a PhD, in 1990, in East Asian Languages and Civilizations.[2]

She was married to former Massachusetts governor William Weld from July 7, 1975 until she divorced him in 2002.[3][4] She is the mother of five children by Weld. [5]

She is a blood relative of her former husband's opponent in the 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial race, Mark Roosevelt, grandson of her grandfather's brother Kermit Roosevelt.

Weld is currently an Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Law Asia Leadership program at Georgetown University Law School. [6] She serves on the Advisory Council of the US-China Education Trust. [7]

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Frances Roosevelt, Portrait Artist, 78", The New York Times, September 13, 1995
  2. ↑ "SUSAN ROOSEVELT WELD: A 'LONER' GENERATES HER OWN LIGHT", The Boston Globe, October 11, 1990, Marian Christy
  3. ↑ "Weld marriage may be on rocks", Boston Herald, David R. Guarino and Gayle Fee, June 30, 200
  4. ↑ "Running Weld", New York, Jan 23, 2006
  5. ↑ "The Weld's of Harvard Yard", Harvard Magazine, Craig A. Lambert
  6. ↑ "Susan R. Weld". Georgetown Law. Retrieved 2011-04-11. 
  7. ↑ "Susan Weld". US-China Education Trust. Retrieved 2011-04-11. 

See also

Honorary titles
Preceded by
Katharine D. Dukakis		 First Lady of Massachusetts
1991-1997 		Succeeded by
Jan Cellucci


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