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Apr 3, 2014 · Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd American president. FDR, as he was often called, led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, and greatly expanding the powers of the ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.
- Herbert H. Lehman
- Woodrow Wilson
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Apr 17, 2015 · How F.D.R.’s Death Changed the Vice-Presidency. Seventy years ago this week, on April 12, 1945, while he was sitting for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
The Early Years. 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. He attended Groton (1896-1900), a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts, and received a BA degree ...
- Mary McLeod Bethune. The 15th child of formerly enslaved parents, Bethune became a close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and, through her, a trusted advisor to FDR.
- Winston Churchill. FDR’s fellow wartime leader was both an ally in the fight against Hitler and a personal friend who often visited the White House. When Roosevelt died in 1945, Churchill eulogized him as “the greatest American friend we have ever known.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower. As the U.S. and its allies prepared for the D-Day invasion of Europe, FDR put the West Pointer in charge as supreme commander of allied forces.
- Fala. A Scottish terrier born in 1940, Fala became the president’s constant companion and a national celebrity. In a famous speech, Roosevelt rebuffed critics by saying, “I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them."
James Roosevelt was born in 1828 and died on December 8, 1900 in New York City at the age of 72. Franklin was eighteen and a freshman at Harvard College. When did FDR's mother die? Sara Delano Roosevelt was born in 1854 and died on September 7, 1941 at the family home "Springwood," in Hyde Park, New York at the age of 87.
