By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. Smith as “the Happy Warrior.” In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with poliomyelitis.
President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. Patrick’s Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.įollowing the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. 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.”īorn in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York–now a national historic site–he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. The biography for President Roosevelt and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association.Īssuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D.
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