(December 14, 1795 – April 5, 1875) was an American politician, jurist, businessman, and member of the Roosevelt family.

Roosevelt served in the United States House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843, but declined to seek reelection.

After James Parker Barnett, a student of French Creole heritage, had completed two of the three years of required lectures to obtain a degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, a Southern student complained he was "colored" and Barnett was expelled from the institution.

In 1853, Roosevelt ruled a writ issued by John W. Edmonds that ordered the institution to readmit Barnett to be invalid.

[5] James and Cornelia were the parents of eleven children, all but three of whom died in childhood or early adulthood.

Their children were:[6] Roosevelt died on April 5, 1875, at his home, 836-838 Broadway in New York City, following complications sustained after he broke his thigh bone in a fall.