President Timeline

  • Birth

    Birth

    Hyde Park, New York
  • Started at Groton

    Started at Groton

    (a private school)
  • Father died

    Father died

  • Started at Columbia Law School

    Started at Columbia Law School

    Lawyer
  • Married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

    Married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

    His distant Cousin
  • Anna's Birth

    Anna's Birth

    New York, NY
  • Finished Law School

    Finished Law School

    Never actually graduated
  • James Roosevelt Birth

    James Roosevelt Birth

    New York, NY
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Birth

    Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Birth

  • Elliot Roosevelt's Birth

    Elliot Roosevelt's Birth

    New York, NY
  • Member, Plattsburg, New York, Centennial.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Birth

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Birth

    Campobello Island, Canada
  • John Aspinwall Roosevelt Birth

    John Aspinwall Roosevelt Birth

    Hyde Park, NY
  • Elected Overseer of Harvard University

  • Resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy

    Resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy

  • Founded Warm Springs Foundation

    Founded Warm Springs Foundation

    For people with Polio
  • New York State Democrats nominate FDR for governor

    New York State Democrats nominate FDR for governor

  • Reelected governor of New York, defeating Republican opponent Charles H. Tuttle.

  • Unhurt in assassination attempt by Guiseppe Zangara in Miami, Florida.

  • Term of office

    Term of office

    Political Party: Democratic
  • Signs the Agricultural "Adjustment Act.”

    Signs the Agricultural "Adjustment Act.”

  • Issues executive order establishing the Civil Works Administration,

    Issues executive order establishing the Civil Works Administration,

    an emergency relief pro­gram to employ four million jobless on federal, state and local make-work projects.
  • Signs National Housing Act

    Signs National Housing Act

    establishes Federal Housing Administration.
  • Signs the Social Security Act.

    Signs the Social Security Act.

  • Franklin Beats Alfred Landon

    Franklin Beats Alfred Landon

    winning re-election to second term
  • Re-elction for third term

    Re-elction for third term

  • Mother Death

    Mother Death

    Hyde Park, NY
  • End Of Term

    End Of Term

    Term Ended due to death
  • Death

    Death

    Died due to Poliomyelitis. buried in Hyde Park, New York. Died in Warm Springs Georgia
  • Wife Died

    Wife Died

    No Info