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1944-01-01 |
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| Name | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Hyde Park, New York , United States |
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January 30, 1882
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| Died | April 12, 1945
(63 years)
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| Info | Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.
Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.
In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York.
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.
In 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy.
Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.
Feeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled.
As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
USELESS TRIVIA:
1. FDR was an avid stamp collector. by the 1930's his collection exceeded 25,000.
2. FDR was the first President to appoint a woman to the cabinet...Frances Perkins Sec. of Labor.
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| 30 Fireside Chats of President Franklin Roosevelt (March 12, 1933 - June 12, 1944) |
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| Commonwealth Club Address - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| First Fireside Chat/The Banking Crisis - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech 1932 |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech 1936 |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech 1940 |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech 1944 |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - "Stab in the Back" Speech (June 10, 1940) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - Address to Congress on Yalta (March 1, 1945) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War (December 8, 1941) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - Dedication of a Memorial to the Northwest Territory (July 8, 1938) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - Joint Statement with Churchill and Stalin on the Yalta Conference (February 11, 1945) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - Message to Congress Requesting War Declarations with Germany and Italy (December 11, 1941) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - On Land Lease (March 15, 1941) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - Quarantine Speech (October 5, 1937) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - Speech at Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union (Four Freedoms) (January 6, 1941) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 11, 1944) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 3, 1934) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 3, 1936) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 3, 1938) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 3, 1940) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 4, 1935) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 4, 1939) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 6, 1937) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 6, 1942) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (Jan 6, 1945) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - State of the Union Address (January 7, 1943) |
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| Franklin Roosevelt - The Teheran Declaration (December 1, 1943) |
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| Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| President Franklin Roosevelt Inaugural Address January 20, 1937 |
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| President Franklin Roosevelt Inaugural Address January 20, 1941 |
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| President Franklin Roosevelt Inaugural Address January 20, 1945 |
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| President Franklin Roosevelt Inaugural Address March 4, 1933 |
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| The Four Freedoms - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| The Great Arsenal of Democracy - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| ENDORSEMENTS |
| NE US Senate - Nov 03, 1942 |
I |
George W. Norris |
| NY Governor - D Convention - Aug 20, 1942 |
D |
James M. Mead |
| New York City Mayor - Nov 04, 1941 |
R |
Fiorello La Guardia |
| CA US Senate - Nov 08, 1938 |
D |
Sheridan Downey |
| GA US Senate - D Primary - Sep 14, 1938 |
D |
Lawrence S. Camp |
| CA US Senate - D Primary - Aug 30, 1938 |
D |
William G. McAdoo |
| KY US Senate - D Primary - Aug 06, 1938 |
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Alben W. Barkley |
| OK US Senate - D Primary - Jul 12, 1938 |
D |
Elmer Thomas |
| IA US Senate - D Primary - Jun 06, 1938 |
D |
Otha D. Wearin |
| NC US Senate - D Primary - Jun 04, 1938 |
D |
Franklin W. Hancock Jr. |
| NE US Senate - Nov 03, 1936 |
I |
George W. Norris |
| New York City Mayor - Nov 07, 1933 |
D |
Joseph V. McKee |
| US President - D Convention - Jun 29, 1928 |
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Alfred E. Smith |
| US President - D Convention - Jul 09, 1924 |
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Alfred E. Smith |
| NY US President - Nov 08, 1904 |
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Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt |
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