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At the Roosevelt estate, Franklin spend most of his time with his mother; he grew up in a very patriarchal household. Sara was very protective of her son, while James was relatively absent, although biographer James MacGregor Burns notes that he was more involved than many of his fellow fathers.
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As in many aristocratic families during the Gilded Age, Franklin was taught to avoid unpleasant subjects and overtures of emotion while striving to please others. “Franklin learned an early vigilance for any sign that he was less than delightful,” writes author Jonathan Darman in Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President. “And in payi...
At age 14, Franklin left the cocoon of Hyde Park to attend the Groton School in Massachusetts. His cloistered childhood left him unprepared for the rigors of boarding school and living away from home, and he struggled to fit in. Franklin didn’t excel in the classroom or on the playing fields of Groton. Fellow students thought him a lightweight. “I ...
While at Harvard, Roosevelt fell in love with his fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt. Sara did not approve when 21-year-old Franklin told her of their engagement. Thinking the couple too young and unimpressed with the shy Eleanor, Sara took Franklin on a Caribbean cruise in a fruitless effort to get him to change his mind. Eleanor’s volun...
A young, unbreeched Roosevelt in 1884, 2 years old. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano.
Franklin spent his youth near Hyde Park, about fifty miles north of New York City, on a large estate and farm tended by hundreds of workers. Insulated from the outside world and schooled at home by tutors until a teenager, Franklin had limited contact with his peers.
Jul 17, 2024 · Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was born into a wealthy family as the only child of James Roosevelt and Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt, and a distant cousin of...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, to James and Sara Roosevelt. James Roosevelt was a landowner and businessman of considerable, but not awesome, wealth. FDR grew up under the watchful eyes of his mother, whose devotion to her only child was considerable, and a host of nannies.
