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Franklin D. Roosevelt served for 12 years as the 32nd president of the United States. He was elected four times beginning in 1932. Roosevelt led the country through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II.
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His father, James Roosevelt, and his mother, Sara Delano, were each from rich old New York families, of Dutch and French ancestory respectively. Franklin was their only child. His paternal grandmother, Mary Rebecca Aspinwall, was a first cousin of Elizabeth Monroe, wife of the fifth U.S. President, James Monroe. One of his ancestors was John Lothro...
Formal portrait, age 18, in Groton, Massachusetts Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York. When Roosevelt was five years old his father took him to visit President Grover Cleveland. The president said to him: "My little man, I am making a strange wish for you. It is that you may never ...
Roosevelt was the Assistant of the United States Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson. He was nominated the vice presidential candidate under James M. Cox in 1920. Cox and Roosevelt lost to Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. In 1921, Roosevelt got sick with poliomyelitis, a disease that paralyzes people. He never walked again, but Roosevelt ...
Roosevelt won the election against the unpopular incumbent (president at the time) Herbert Hooverand became president in early 1933. He started a series of popular programs known as the New Deal to fight against the Great Depression. The New Deal gave people jobs building roads, bridges, dams, parks, schools, and other public services. Also, it cre...
In the afternoon of April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, while sitting for a portrait, Roosevelt said "I have a terrific headache." He then slumped forward in his chair, unconscious, and was carried into his bedroom. The president's attending cardiologist, Dr. Howard Bruenn, diagnosed the medical emergency as a massive intracerebral hemorrhage...
Eleanor and Franklin with their first two children, 1908Roosevelt supported Governor Woodrow Wilsonin the 1912 presidential election.Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913Children: Anna, James, Elliot, Franklin, John, and a son who died young. Nickname: FDR. Biography: What is Franklin D. Roosevelt most known for? President Roosevelt is most known for leading the United States and the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers of Germany and Japan during World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882 at Hyde Park in New York. He was the distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt who was the American president between the years 1901–1909. Franklin Roosevelt was homeschooled until he was fourteen years old.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President, authorized development of the atomic bomb and introduced the idea for the United Nations.
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Early Years. Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, at the family estate on the Hudson River near Hyde Park, New York. His father, James Roosevelt, was a wealthy landowner and railroad vice-president. He had been a diplomat under President Grover Cleveland.
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