President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Birth	01/30/1882
Education	1903
Occup	1911-1913		NY State Senator
Occup	1913-1920		USA Asst Secretary of Navy
Election	1920		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1929-1932		NY Governor
Election	1932		USA Presidential Election
Occup	1933-1945		USA President
Election	1936		USA Presidential Election
Election	1940		USA Presidential Election
Election	1944		USA Presidential Election
Death	04/12/1945
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FDR was a country boy. He was born in the manor house of a Dutch patron. His people were immigrants who came to this country more than two hundred years before he was born. He said that if elected he would do all that he could to repeal the 18th Amendment. He was an Episcopalian.

When he was a boy his father died, but there is no record of a "scene." His mother, Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt, took over as father and mother. She marched Franklin to church every Sunday - and when he grew up, got married, and brought his wife to live with his mother, the family went to church. He was a vestryman in St. James Episcopal Church, Hyde Park. When he and Mrs. Roosevelt came to Washington first as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then as president, they... Read More