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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
| Birth | 01/30/1882 | |||
| Educ. | 1903 |  | ||
| Occup | 1911-1913 |  | ||
| Occup | 1913-1920 | USA Asst Secretary of Navy |  | |
| Election | 1914 | NY US Senate Election | | |
| Reside | 1915-1945 | |||
| Election | 1920 | USA Presidential Election | | |
| Occup | 1929-1932 | | ||
| Election | 1930 | NY Governor's Election | | |
| Election | 1932 | USA Presidential Election | | |
| Occup | 1933-1945 | | ||
| 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
