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Born in Hyde Park, NY
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attended Groton, a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts
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attends Harvard, receiving a BA in history
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Married Eleanor Roosevelt, a fifth cousin once removed, in NYC Enters Columbia Law School
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passes the bar examination and leaves Columbia without completing a degree
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elected to the New York State Senate
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was re-elected to the New York State Senate
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was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson
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Ran as Vice-President on the Democratic ticket along with James Cox of Ohio. Lost the election to Warren Harding and returned to private life.
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While vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick in the summer of 1921, Roosevelt contracted poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). Despite courageous efforts to overcome his crippling illness, he never regained the use of his legs.
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returns to politics by nominating Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for president at the Democratic National Convention.
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In time, he established a foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia to help other polio victims, and inspired, as well as directed, the March of Dimes program that eventually funded an effective vaccine.
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is nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for president and defeats Hoover in November by seven million votes.
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In the "First 100 Days," FDR pushes fifteen legislative proposals through Congress
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Franklin Roosevelt defeats Alfred Landon, winning re-election to a second term. He wins by a landslide in the popular vote (60.8%) and trounces Landon in the Electoral College 523 to 8.52
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Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to a third term with 54.7% of the vote,53 campaigning on a promise not to send American troops into foreign wars.
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to aid nations at war with Germany & Italy On December 7, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor bringing the United States into the war. The next day FDR delivers his "day of infamy" speech before Congress and asks for a formal declaration of war against Germany
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The first and only president to serve four terms. He was the reason there is now a limit of two terms.
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Dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia.
He is buried in the Rose Garden of his estate at Hyde Park, New York.