lied when he claimed in writing in March 1935 that he did not know if he had any Jewish ancestors.
I've previously posted here on how FDR was hailed as having a Jewish great-grandmother by the Jewish
Chronicle in 1982, and how Jews surrounded him as president, which I learnt from historian Mark Weber.
American-Jew and Zionist journalist Philip Slomovitz (1896 - 1993)
Newspaper man & Michigan governor Chase (Charles) Osborn (1860 - 1949)
President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
President of the United States Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
American-Jew and Zionist Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise (1874 - 1946)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady of the United States (1884 - 1962)
more details on FDR's Jewish ancestry and why the story was re-opened in 1982.