Franklin D. Roosevelt's family was from Dutchess County, New York.
Franklin D. Roosevelt . Roosevelt was born in 1882 to an old , prominent Dutch family from Dutchess County , New York and attended Groton School . The Roosevelt family is an American business and political family from New York whose members have included two United States Presidents , a First Lady , and various merchants , politicians , inventors , clergymen , artists , and socialites . Two distantly related branches of the family from Oyster Bay on Long Island and Hyde Park in Dutchess County , Upstate New York , achieved national political prominence with the elections of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt ( 1901 -- 1909 ) and his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1933 -- 1945 ) , whose wife , First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt , was Theodore 's niece .