Hij is getrouwd met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 november 1952 te Malibu, California, hij was toen 47 jaar oud.
DR. JAMES A. HALSTED, 78, A NUTRITION RESEARCHER
By DOUGLAS C. McGILL
Dr. James A. Halsted, a physician who conducted important nutritional research, died of leukemia Friday at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He was 78 years old and lived in Brookline, Mass.
Dr. Halsted was married to Franklin D. Roosevelt's only daughter, Anna, from 1952 until her death in 1975. Dr. Halsted maintained a professional interest in the health of Presidents, particularly his father-in-law's, and wrote several articles on the subject.
In 1962, he wrote in Today's Health, a publication of the American Medical Association, that Roosevelt, contrary to a widespread rumor at the time, had not suffered a series of ''little strokes'' before his death from a severe cerebral hemorrhage in 1945. In a letter to The New York Times in 1974, he argued that a physical examination may be an unreliable way to determine whether a candidate is sufficiently healthy to withstand the Presidency. Veterans Administration Posts
From 1958 to 1960, he was a Fulbright Professor of Medicine at the Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran, where he and an associate, Dr. Ananda Prasad, studied dwarfism among peasants. This research led them to relate zinc deficiency to retarded growth. He also did a study on vitamin B-12 absorption and intestinal protein loss.
Dr. Halsted was born in 1905 in Syracuse and graduated from Harvard University in 1926 and Harvard Medical School in 1930. He served in World War II in North Africa and Italy. He did research on psychosomatic illness among soldiers in combat, for which he won the Legion of Merit award.
In the 1950's he held various positions at Veterans Administration hospitals in Los Angeles and Syracuse.
From 1964 to 1971 Dr. Halsted worked for the headquarters of the Veterans Administration. He retired as Associate Chief of Staff for Research in 1971. He then worked in private practice in Hillsdale, N.Y. He moved to Brookline in 1982. Hopkins's Son-in-Law
His marriage to Anna Roosevelt Boettiger was his second and her third. From 1930 to 1951, Dr. Halsted was married to the former Isabella Hopkinson, now of Cambridge, Mass. His third wife, Diana Hopkins of Reston, Va., is the daughter of Roosevelt's aide and friend, Harry Hopkins.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by five children, Elinor Moore of Boston, Thomas Halsted of Manchester, Mass., Dr. Charles Halsted of Davis, Calif., Isabella Halsted of Amherst, Mass., and John Boettiger of Amherst, Mass.; two sisters, Frances Jameison of Rhinebeck, N.Y., and Ruth Chace of Woodstock, Vt.; a brother, Lawrence Halsted of Detroit, and 11 grandchildren.
A memorial service is scheduled for noon Friday at Memorial Church at Harvard University.
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