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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin was born on January 30, 1882. -
About him.
Roosevelt was born in 1882, to a old, Dutch family in Dutchess country, New York. He attended the elite educational institutions of Groton School, an Harvard College in Massachusetts. -
About him.
He was married at 23 in 1905, to Eleanor Roosevelt, with whom he had 6 children. -
About him.
He entered politics in 1910, serving in the New York State Senate, than as a Assistant Secretary of the Navy under president Woodrow Wilson. -
About Him.
In 1920, Roosevelt ran for vice president with presidential candidate James M. Cox, but the Cox/Roosevelt ticket lost to the Republican ticket of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. -
About him.
Franklin was stricken with debilitating polio in 1921, which cost him the use of his legs and put his future in political career in Jeopardy, but he attempted to recover from the illness, and founded the treatment center for people with polio in Warm Springs, Georgia. -
Governor
Roosevelt successfully ran for governor of New York in 1928. In office from 1929 to 1933, he served as a reform governor promoting the enactment of programs to combat the Great Depression besetting the United States at the time. -
President Herbert Hoover.
In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt successfully defeated incumbent Republican president Herbert Hoover to win the presidency of the United States. Energized by his personal victory over his polio, FDR relied on his persistent optimism and activism to renew the national spirit. -
About him.
FRD, was and American statesman, and political leader. He also served as the 32nd president. -
In office.
In his first 100 days in office, which began March4, 1933, Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal. -
1933-37
The economy improved rapidly from 1933-37, but then relapsed into a deep recession in 1937–38. The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court, and blocked almost all proposals for major liberal legislation (except the minimum wage, which did pass). -
"Arsenal of Democracy"
As World War II loomed after 1938, with the Japanese invasion of China and the aggression of Nazi Germany, Roosevelt gave strong diplomatic and financial support to China and the United Kingdom, while remaining officially neutral. His goal was to make America the "Arsenal of Democracy", which would supply munitions to the Allies. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrv2gc82kvE)
