Background
He was born on June 4, 1896 in Manhattan, the son of Eva Roberts and Oliver Eaton Cromwell. He grew up in Philadelphia after his widowed mother married Edward T. Stotesbury in 1912 and moved there.
He was born on June 4, 1896 in Manhattan, the son of Eva Roberts and Oliver Eaton Cromwell. He grew up in Philadelphia after his widowed mother married Edward T. Stotesbury in 1912 and moved there.
Cromwell"s first wife was automotive company heiress Delphine Ione Dodge, the only daughter of Horace Dodge of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, one of the two co-founders of the Dodge Motor Company. In 1935, Cromwell married 22-year-old Doris Duke. Both supported Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal.
He published books to present his economic ideas and advocated tighter control of the Federal Reserve.
In 1940, for 142 days, he was the United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Canada. He resigned to enter the election for United States. Senator from New Jersey, a race he lost.
Their daughter, Maxine Hope Cromwell (later Hopkins), was born in New York on November 17, 1948. Cromwell died in the Marin Terrace retirement home in Mill Valley, California, at the age of 93.