The Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt

By thetimster2000

  • 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