He was named for his grandfather, Joseph Edward Willard, the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and United States Ambassador to Spain.
[1] Like several of his family members, Roosevelt attended Groton School and Harvard University and studied piano with Nadia Boulanger in France.
[3] With the Greene he supported the invasion of southern France in August 1944 and later served on escort duties in the Pacific.
[1] On December 22, 1943, while a lieutenant in the Navy, Roosevelt married first Nancy Thayer in New York City.
1964), an attorney with at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft who married Lolita Ximena Echavarria (daughter of Hernán Echavarría Olózaga, Colombia's Ambassador to the United States in 1967 and 1968), in 1999.