Biographies and Features Franklin D. Biography: FDR "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. View More. A Third Term? Four Presidential Inaugurations Franklin D. Around the World with the Roosevelt Explore Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's lifetime of travels around the world through the collections of the Franklin D.
FDR on Federal Government Employee Unions "By preventing practices which tend to destroy the independence of labor, it seeks, for every worker with its scope, that freedom of choice and action which is justly his.
FDR Library. Mission Statement The Library's mission is to foster research and education on the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and their continuing impact on contemporary life. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, , the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt although his father had a son from a previous marriage.
Roosevelt began studying at Harvard University in where he earned his degree in three years. They married on March 17, , and went on to have one daughter and five sons, one of whom died in infancy. In Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio and became paralyzed in each of his extremities although he would eventually regain the use of his arms, his legs never fully recovered. While his mother tried to persuade him to give up his career, his wife Eleanor urged him not to abandon his political dreams.
In , the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Franklin D. He spearheaded the successful wartime alliance between Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States and helped lay the groundwork for the post-war peace organization that would become the United Nations. The only American president in history to be elected four times, Roosevelt died in office in April He was educated by private tutors and elite schools Groton and Harvard , and early on began to admire and emulate his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt , elected president in Roosevelt Jr.
A fifth son named Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Roosevelt attended law school at Columbia University and worked for several years as a clerk in a Wall Street law firm. In , he entered politics, winning a state senate seat as a Democrat in the heavily Republican Dutchess County.
He would hold that post for the next seven years, traveling to Europe in to tour naval bases and battlefields after the U. In , Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio when he was 39 years old.
By the spring of , he was able to stand again with braces. He ended up purchasing the resort and turning it into a rehabilitation center for Polio patients.
With the support of his wife and his longtime supporter, the journalist Louis Howe, Roosevelt began to return to public life, issuing statements on issues of the day and keeping up a correspondence with Democratic leaders.
Smith for president though Smith lost the nomination and the Democrats lost the general election. Smith lost to Herbert Hoover , but Roosevelt won. Governor Roosevelt grew more liberal in his policies as New York and the nation sank deeper into economic depression after the stock market crash of Re-elected as governor in , Roosevelt emerged as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination two years later.
In addition, Democrats won sizeable majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. He enjoyed stamps, he said, because of their link with geography and history, not for their intrinsic value. While recovering from polio, he spent many bedridden hours arranging and annotating thousands of specimens.
As President, there was scarcely a day when he did not spend some time with his collection. The stamps he received officially from foreign governments were not sold, but are a part of the holdings of the Roosevelt Library. Born: January 30, at 9 pm, weighing 10 lbs Height: 6'2" Weight: Approximately lbs. What dogs did FDR have? Reared on a country estate, FDR grew up with a succession of dogs.
They included a white spitz, a red setter, a Saint Bernard, and a Newfoundland. On their honeymoon, Franklin and Eleanor bought the first of their Scottish terriers, Duffy. Before the first year was over, the German shepherd broke his foot and Meggie bit a Senator.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt decided that they did not have the time to enjoy their pets in the White House. Seven years later the President received a black Scottish terrier puppy as a gift and named him Murray, the Outlaw of Fala Hill. Fala became his constant companion for the rest of his life.
Who was Fala? Although FDR had many dogs during his lifetime, Fala was the most famous. Fala's full name was "Murray the Outlaw of Fala Hill," and after going to live at the White House on November 10, , he became the President's constant companion. What boats did FDR own? FDR was always interested in ships and sailing.
Although his love of the sea came from his Delano ancestors who were seafarers, it was his father who taught him how to handle the Half-Moon, the family sailboat, on trips up the Hudson River and in the Bay of Fundy near their Campobello Island summer home.
At the age of sixteen, he had his own twenty-one foot knockabout, the New Moon. Ice-boating was a very popular pastime on the Hudson River during the second half of the nineteenth century. FDR owned a twenty-eight foot ice-boat, the Hawk, which he frequently sailed on the Hudson as a young man. FDR also enjoyed canoeing. One of the canoes that he used at Campobello was a birch bark canoe made by Tomah Joseph, the last chief of the Passamaquoddy Indians, the tribe living in Eastport, Maine, across the bay from Campobello Island.
FDR bought Vireo, a small sailboat, after the Half-Moon II, a sixty-foot auxiliary schooner his father bought in , was sold to the United States government in for naval use. For several winters after the attack of polio, FDR cruised the warm Florida waters on the houseboat Larooco. The sun and swimming seemed to help, but he made no lasting improvements.
The Larooco was destroyed in a hurricane in What sports did FDR engage in? At Groton School, Franklin D. Roosevelt played football and served as manager of the baseball team and at Harvard College he participated in crew. During his lifetime, he enjoyed sailing, fishing, riding, playing golf and tennis, going off on hunting trips and cruises with friends, and playing poker. He was a "birder" all his life and even his disability and the burdens of the presidency did not prevent active pursuit of this hobby.
What did FDR consider his greatest accomplishment? In his message to Congress in June , FDR stated that among his administration's objectives, he placed "the security of the men, women and children of the Nation first. When and where did FDR get polio?
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