FDR

             Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our 32nd president was born in 1882 on a Hudson River estate in Hyde Park, New York. He was the second son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano. He was taught by private tutors and attended Groton, a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts for his education as a boy. He earned a bachelor's degree in history at Harvard and pursued law at New York City's Columbia University
             He left Columbia University without earning a degree.
             In 1905 he married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin. She was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, who gave her away at her wedding. Franklin and Eleanor had one daughter and five sons.
             In 1910, he began his political career by being elected to New York State Senate. In 1913 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Navy. He was nominated for vice president with Governor James Cox of Ohio in 1920, but was defeated by Republican candidate Warren G. Harding.
             In 1920 he was stricken with polio. He was never to walk again unaided.
             Despite this, he pursued his career cheerfully.
             Roosevelt ran for governor of New York in 1928 and won by the narrow margin of 25,000 out of 4.5 million votes. He was reelected in 1930 and served for three more years.
             Delivering an acceptance speech in 1932 for Democratic Presidential nomination, he pledged a "New Deal", devoted to relief, recovery, and reform. The Electoral College swept Roosevelt into office. He would then be elected three more times afterwards.
             Roosevelt was elected into office during a terrible time on American History, the Great Depression. Then in 1941, the U.S. was thrown into World War II. Roosevelt just could not escape these huge problems for America.
             On April 12, 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffers a massive stroke and dies at Warm Springs, GA. at the age of 63. Thus, ending...

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