Susan Roosevelt Weld was formerly a professor at Harvard specializing in ancient Chinese civilization

Sinology

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 and law

Law

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. She also was General Counsel to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Congressional-Executive Commission on China

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. She was the First Lady of Massachusetts

First Lady

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 from 1991 until 1997.

Life

She is the daughter of Quentin Roosevelt II

Quentin Roosevelt II

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, and Frances Blanche Webb, and granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

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, great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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. She is the grand-niece of Kermit Roosevelt

Kermit Roosevelt

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, Quentin Roosevelt

Quentin Roosevelt

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, Archibald Roosevelt

Archibald Roosevelt

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, Ethel Roosevelt Derby

Ethel Roosevelt Derby

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 and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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She graduated from Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College

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 in 1970, from Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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 in 1974, and from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 with a PhD, in 1990, in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

EALC

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She was married to former Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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 governor

Governor of Massachusetts

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 William Weld

William Weld

William Floyd Weld is a former governor of the US state of Massachusetts. He served as that state's 68th governor from 1991 to 1997. From 1981 to 1988, he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Justice Department...

 from July 7, 1975 until she divorced him in 2002.
She is the mother of five children by Weld.
She is a blood relative of her former husband's opponent in the 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial race, Mark Roosevelt

Mark Roosevelt

Mark Roosevelt has been since January 2011 the President of Antioch College. He was previously the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools, the second largest school district in Pennsylvania, until December 31, 2010....

, grandson of her grandfather's brother Kermit Roosevelt

Kermit Roosevelt

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

US-China Education Trust

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Works

• "CEDAW & FEAR of WOMEN’S RIGHTS", MaximsNews Network, SUSAN ROOSEVELT WELD, 18 December 2006

See also

• Weld family
  Weld family
  The Weld family is an extended family of Boston Brahmins most remembered for the philanthropy of its members. The Welds have many connections to Harvard University, the Golden Age of Sail, the Far East , the history of Massachusetts, and American history in general.William Weld, former Governor of...