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Franklin D. Roosevelt Info
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"32nd president of the U.S. (1933-45). Born in Hyde Park, N.Y., he was attracted to politics as an admirer of his cousin T. Roosevelt, and became active in the Democratic Party. In 1905 he married E. Roosevelt, who would become a valued adviser in future years. He served in the state senate (1910-13) and as U.S. assistant secretary of the navy (1913-20). In 1920 he was nominated for vice president. The next year he was stricken with polio; though unable to walk, he remained active in politics. As governor of New York (1929-33), he set up the first state relief agency in the U.S. In 1932 he won the Democratic presidential nomination with the help of J. Farley and easily defeated Pres. H. Hoover. In his inaugural address to a nation of more than 13 million unemployed, he pronounced that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Congress passed most of the changes he sought in his New Deal program in the first hundred days of his term. He was overwhelmingly reelected in 1936 over A. Landon. To solve legal challenges to the New Deal, he proposed enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court, but his "court-packing" plan aroused strong opposition and had to be abandoned. By the late 1930s economic recovery had slowed, but Roosevelt was more concerned with the growing threat of war. In 1940 he was reelected to an unprecedented third term, defeating W. Willkie. He maintained U.S. neutrality toward the war in Europe, but approved the principle of lend-lease and in 1941 met with W. Churchill to draft the Atlantic Charter. With U.S. entry into World War II, he mobilized industry for military production and formed an alliance with Britain and the Soviet Union; he met with Churchill and J. Stalin to form war policy at Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945). Despite declining health, he won reelection for a fourth term against T. Dewey (1944) but served only briefly before his death. His presidency is widely regarded as one of the greatest in U.S. history."
Source: Merriam-Webster inc.
Britannica Concise
Roosevelt, Franklin Delanor
2003
Yahoo, Merriam-Webster
3-5-03
http://education.yahoo.com/search/be?lb=t&p=url%3Ar/roosevelt__franklin
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