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Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Franklin Roosevelt is elected to the New York State Senate

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt is Born In Hyde Park, NY

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    Roosevelt's Lifespan

  • Franklin attends Groton School in groton, Massachusetts

  • Moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend Harvard College

  • Moves to New York City, marries Eleanor Roosevelt, and enters Columbia Law School

  • Franklin Roosevelt is appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson

  • Franklin Roosevelt runs as the Democratic candidate for Vice-President

  • Franklin Roosevelt contracts a paralytic disease while swimming in Maine

  • Franklin Roosevelt establishes a polio treatment center in Warm Springs, Georgia

  • Franklin Roosevelt is elected governor of New York.

  • The New York Stock Exchange crashes, one of a series of events leading to the Great Depression in the United States.

  • Franklin Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President of the United States.

  • In the "First 100 Days," FDR pushes fifteen legislative proposals through Congress; these form the basis of the New Deal.

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; US declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan.

  • Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, imprisoning many Japanese-Americans living on American soil.

  • On D-Day, the first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive on the northern shores of France.

  • Franklin Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term with 53.4% of the popular vote.

  • Franklin Roosevelt meets with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in Yalta to negotiate the post-war future of Europe.

  • Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia.