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Birth
Hyde Park, NY -
Attends Groton
Massachusetts
Close Relationship With Dean
Circa September 1, 1896 -
Attends Harvard
Circa September 1 -
Franklin Grows An Interest In Eleanor
Distant cousin, Theodore's niece
Circa 1902 -
Attends Columbia University Law School
Passes bar
Doesn't complete studies
Circa September 1, 1904 -
Marriage
St. Patrick's Day
Marries Eleanor -
Period: to
FDR has 6 children
One died in infancy
Circa January 1 -
Joins NY Senate
Circa January 1, 1910 -
Period: to
Assistant Secretary for the Navy
Circa January 1 -
Affair with Lucy Mercer
Circa September 21
Almost divorced -
Diagnosed with polio
Fought on with exercise
Circa August 1 -
Governor of NY
Depression happens 1 year later -
Great Depression
Circa Jan 1 -
Elected President
Doubt in Herbert Hoover
Circa January 1 -
Social Security Act
Part of New Deal legislations
Circa January 1 -
Reelection
Circa January 1 -
Serves 3rd Term
Growing Threat of Nazis -
Atlantic Charter
Circa August 1
Winston Churchill
Allies with England -
Pearl Harbor Attacked
Japanese citizens internment -
1st Fireside Chat
Spoke rurally -
4th term
Circa January 1 -
Death
Cerebral hemorrhage
Buried in Hyde Park