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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Born
1/30/1882
Birthplace
Hyde Park, New York
Titles and Honors
-Appointed Secretary of the Navy by Wilson, 1912
-Elected Governor of New York; re-elected in 1930
-Elected President; elected for four years, 1932
-Democrat
Education
Harvard, 1904
Passed bar, 1907
Occupation
-32nd U.S. President, March 4, 1933-April 12, 1945
-Elected to New York State Senate, 1910
-Ran for Vice-President with James M. Cox; defeated by Harding-Coolidge; became VIce-President in charge of New York office of Fidelidty & Deposit Company of Maryland, 1920
-developed polio, 1921
-bought Warm Springs, Georgia, and established Georgia Warm Springs FOundation to assist polio victims,1926
-Held "fireside chats" on radio explaining ideas to public; instituted WPA; Social Security Act, 1932; Good Neighbor" policy, 1930's
-Pursued policy of helping Britain and France by all means short of War in World War II, Sept 1, 1939
-Japan attacked Pearl Harbor; U.S. entered war, December 7, 1941
-Delivered speech outlining "Four Freedoms", 1941
-March 1945 went to Warm Srpings in effort to regain strength; collapsed April 12, 1945 and died.
Spouse
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, m. 1905
Relations
cousin of Theodore Roosevelt

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